Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [was/were] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played violin , so my interests were much the same as his , having only played classical music all my life . |
| 2 | Castner 's originality brought him little public acclaim , for the chemical industry was such that its products were largely the raw materials of other industries . |
| 3 | They represent a time when either their objects were not the same as those of the official organization , or the CCO was not enterprising enough to suit them . |
| 4 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |
| 5 | They had turned Grand Prix racing into a private commercial war between Marlboro and Camel , Pioneer and Phillips , Canon and Braun , so that the drivers , covered in stickers at thousands of pounds a time , and their machines were now the fastest advertising boards on earth . |
| 6 | As you face the station , he lived that side you see and er there , the room where they used to entertain their friends was just the other side of the wall the booking office , you see , and er he was such a kind man , his name was Mr |
| 7 | Having just wed , and her husband laid off from the cotton mill only four days since , her wages were now the only ones coming in , and she lived in fear of being put out of work . |
| 8 | But in the trackside wastelands near Stockton , Norton and Billingham the looks on their faces were exactly the same . |
| 9 | But in the trackside wastelands near Stockton , Norton and Billingham the looks on their faces were exactly the same . |
| 10 | Her grades were always the best in her class ; she did n't need to study . |
| 11 | The Rector , his wife and their helpers were not the only folk in Combsburgh ministering to the spiritual and educational needs of the population , for Methodism was , by 1848 , beginning to be a force in the parish . |
| 12 | With a squeal , a scantily clad girl whose eyes were twice the normal human size scampered out , to be caught by one of those guards and led away . |
| 13 | It 's easy to see the same thing happening today ; when the United States troops went to Somalia , earlier this year , their officers had hardly anything to do with the local experts , preferring to stick with their prejudices about the lack of intelligence of those whose skins were not the same colour as their own . |
| 14 | Ron and his peers were not the only ones to be obliged to move by the War . |
| 15 | My brother-in-law the councillor said nothing , just stood looking down at her ; and in his eyes was just the right mixture of kindliness and a sort of authority ; and something else — a twinkle , a you-and-me-having-a-little-joke-together look . |
| 16 | Using a new set of genuine Thomas Leavy documents based on his legal name change — the last thing he supposed the Federal authorities would be on the lookout for — Coleman then slipped back into the States , via Canada , for what he felt in his bones was probably the last time he would see his father and his country . |
| 17 | Mostly , they saw what they expected — and because the trash with whom Charlie had his dealings were rarely the deepest or most sober of men , their expectations tended to be predictable and few . |
| 18 | One of his mills was probably the largest in the country by the 1880s , though it seems not to have been a paper-mill when he acquired it . |
| 19 | His approach to everything was meticulous , and his decisions were usually the right ones . |
| 20 | For another it implies their agreement with Korah that he and his followers were indeed the true people of God . |
| 21 | I was not surprised to learn that the shelling of our positions was not the German guns but the British guns ( the bastards ) . |