Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I was one of the first to awaken , my noise was far from popular , and I received a few kicks and blows from my neighbours , in their kindly efforts to speed my recovery . |
| 2 | I thought I 'd killed him , but my dread was replaced by fear as he began to come round . |
| 3 | In fact my majority was healthy enough at almost 19,000 . |
| 4 | My ethos was I 've got a lot of money , but I 've got to look after the people as far as I can who have helped to produce it and I am going to make it grow bigger for our successors . |
| 5 | My heart was pounding in my chest , the mosquitoes and everything else forgotten . |
| 6 | If my heart was set on buying a Sierra XR4x4 , £5000 for the Ritchie Motors offering would be sorely tempting . |
| 7 | I thought I detected a faint smile on his lips , but I did not smile back because my heart was in a turmoil . |
| 8 | But immediately my heart was suffused with shame . |
| 9 | The Song of Songs contains these words : ‘ I slept but my heart was awake . ’ |
| 10 | As I reached the changing room again my heart was thumping inside my chest . |
| 11 | No Elsie I did not really believe that but my heart was pounding I can tell you when they pulled that net in . |
| 12 | My opinions were indeed in many and most important points erroneous ; but my heart was single . |
| 13 | But my heart was not in insurance , and when Fred Workman recalled me to the editorial offices I rushed back to my old love . |
| 14 | I followed his chosen route through army and university but my heart was n't in it . |
| 15 | My heart was doing its usual bass drum act as we drew in . |
| 16 | My heart was hardened to the Word of God . |
| 17 | My heart was knocking wildly . |
| 18 | My heart was beating in my throat making it hard to swallow , my nose was running , my hands were cold and I could n't get enough oxygen , which made me yawn every few seconds . |
| 19 | ‘ My heart was pounding so loud I thought they 'd hear it . |
| 20 | A stark poem with the photograph reads : ‘ Once my heart was one and it was yours to keep . |
| 21 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 22 | The client may say , ‘ My heart was beating so fast I thought I was going to have a heart attack ’ , or , ‘ I ca n't cope any more ’ , or , ‘ I think I 'm going to end up in a mental hospital ’ . |
| 23 | My heart was pounding . |
| 24 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 25 | My heart was racing , my breathing was erratic , I thought I was going to blow up inside . |
| 26 | My heart was behaving as if I were going before a judge . |
| 27 | My heart was thumping with disquiet . |
| 28 | " To the train , " I said " We have decided to go to Luxor by " My heart was pounding . |
| 29 | My heart was beating fast as I whispered , ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 30 | But while my heart was aching for Estella , I had no idea that I would soon be hit by a disaster which would completely destroy my hopes and dreams . |