Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the burrow to my left represented the squalors of the subconscious , here to my right was the chill of the super-ego . |
| 32 | In short of having before your Lordship a very complicated er array of procedural options , er the , the view that has been taken by , my lead was the most appropriate er course was to come and argue the issue substantially and then in the light of what your Lordship rules thereafter to see the best way forward in terms of further procedural applications to your Lordship . |
| 33 | She said she 'd come back with her husband and I said fine because my husband was the business head of our family as well . |
| 34 | My husband was the man commissioned by your brother , Banyon , to poison your son . |
| 35 | My husband was the same ; really squeamish about nappies and such . |
| 36 | Which means that my husband was the innocent victim of some hideous double-dealing within the Miletti family ! |
| 37 | However , what caught my imagination was the great Tor or hill overlooking the abbey which jutted like a giant 's finger up towards the heavens , making the small church on its summit a most suitable meeting-place between God and man . |
| 38 | I did n't know who to telephone first — my husband , to tell him the amazing news — or Sally Bulgin , editor of The Artist , to ask if she was really sure my picture was the chosen one ! |
| 39 | Although during the years I worked there I had the opportunity to meet many people , mainly the farmers who were our principal customers , I can honestly say that my job was the most boring and monotonous I could possibly have had . |
| 40 | My job , my contact was the forewoman , you see . |
| 41 | The first man chooses a pub along Marsh Wall on the Millwall Dock , which in my day was the kind of place no one ever wore a suit . |
| 42 | But the thing that sent a shiver up my back was the thin , haunted piping of a recorder . |
| 43 | My name was the first to go on the Dux board in the school hall of the brand-new , glass-walled building only just completed the year before . |
| 44 | I went to two , and er , my name was the last on the , the form . |
| 45 | My wife was the first to notice it : running a bath was n't what it used to be ; no more gush of water , just a diminishing trickle . |
| 46 | Leonard has admitted to a general feeling in the family that Horace was somewhat ‘ arrogant ’ , this son that now wore the mantle : ‘ My father was the eldest but his health and nature ( an interesting , significant addition ) prevented him taking over . ’ |
| 47 | The title of the holding company was The British Cocoa and Chocolate Company and my father was the chairman . |
| 48 | My father was the last managing director . |
| 49 | My father was the Earl of Holden s younger son , she said . |
| 50 | My father was the village schoolmaster and I , like my sisters , Helen and Pat , was born in the schoolhouse , a solid , stone-built structure incorporating two large classrooms as well as the usual living quarters . |
| 51 | ‘ My father was the driest comedian you ever heard , and my mother had a wonderful singing voice — much better than mine , ’ Lynne says . |
| 52 | My father was the sweetest man in the world and there was nothing I could fight him for , or do against him , or he against me , because nothing was said that I did n't agree with , or he did n't agree with , because I was a very easy child . |
| 53 | ‘ My father was the government . |
| 54 | My father was the only one of her relations who dared to tell her that this man should not be trusted . |
| 55 | My father was the head waiter at The Savoy , my mother opened one of the first milk bars in Soho , and my grandmother was a vegetable cook at London 's Park Lane Hotel . |
| 56 | My father was the grandson of Lord Chelmsford , the Lord Chancellor , and was the third son of General Lord Chelmsford . |
| 57 | My father was the other sort , a romantic dreamer . |
| 58 | My father never glorified war , but we were always aware of the traditions of service and the military traditions of the family and in his generation my father was the exemplar . |
| 59 | and my father was the sexton of the church . |
| 60 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |