Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 2 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 3 | Women never are , and she was a woman who had experienced more of life than her years would contain . |
| 4 | Grandfather Lowson lived with them — he was called Matthew , nicknamed Mather — and he was a character who could tell a good story . |
| 5 | She had been a childhood friend of William Egan and though no one could truly mourn such a man of violence , still she had her loyalties , and he was a man who had known how to trade on them . |
| 6 | And it was a film which really was ill-conceived and quite frankly ridiculous . |
| 7 | The foot soldiers came up in rows , yelling and dancing and it was a marvel they were not ridden down , as the cavalry seemed to dash right into them . |
| 8 | that was in this week 's and it was a stag I have n't got this week 's , not out today |
| 9 | It was the sort of pride which comes before a fall — and it was a fall which Gorbachev became increasingly willing to envisage . |
| 10 | People were using the bottle and litter banks and it was a pity they were often left in need of emptying . |
| 11 | Before papa died she had been a child , spoiled and cosseted and it was a pity she had not grown up a bit more quickly . |
| 12 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 13 | The focus of the museum has always been the pictures in the collections , and it was a philosophy which I shared completely . |
| 14 | The common secret of their fiction , in brief , was to put Wodehouse 's gaiety to a serious purpose , and it was a secret they were happy as strangers to share . |
| 15 | And a and also , I mean , it was , and it was a Panasonic one this , erm what you do , if you were doing a jacket top potato , you er would weigh the potato and , and then erm put in the weight , say it was six ounces , and all you do then is press erm jacket potato , you do n't have to put any time , it automatically does it for the time . |
| 16 | They just put it on you see with a brush and it was a paste you see , all over the coach , and then they had a hose and they washed all that X mover off you see , the X mover was an acid and it ate into the you see , bodywork . |
| 17 | ‘ Her life was utterly devoted to her art and it was a devotion she demanded from others . |
| 18 | Er but we enjoyed it again it was sixpence and it was a morning you 'd been doing something and that was it . |
| 19 | In many parts of the world , fish are still being caught by bow and arrow and it was a bowstring which first put Chilton , a Bolton lorry driver , on to the potential of the high-performance polyethylene fibres . |
| 20 | And it was a challenge they eagerly accepted . |
| 21 | and it was a thing I never buy a , I never bought any afterwards |
| 22 | Well they used to ask you to invite the e actually invite the American soldiers into your homes and my friend in Chuckery a couple of years ago , I was visiting him one Sunday lunch and a knock came to his door and he went and it was a guy who came over to see , his mum is now dead , but he , he come over he remembered him from the war . |
| 23 | I suppose Michael was quite a superficial person but to me he represented excitement and it was a period I had to go through . |
| 24 | From experience he knew Grant had a weakness he could exploit — his concern for the safety of others — and it was a flaw which would now prove fatal . |
| 25 | The interesting competition was between Paisley and the Official Unionists for the title of spokesman for the Protestant people , and it was a contest which Paisley won comfortably . |
| 26 | It was a world that had captured Andy Laing 's imagination ten years before , when he was just finishing school , and it was a world he would never enter again . |
| 27 | This required the active incorporation of the mass of the population to serve the nation , at the expense of many lives , and it was a process which necessarily involved cultural as well as military and civilian social administration to an extent which survived the ending of the war . |
| 28 | No , I thought if it was a man it was a president and it was a woman it was Prime Minister . |
| 29 | ‘ And it was a job she was being paid to do — that 's the way she looked at it . |
| 30 | She was feeling helpless , a victim of circumstances temporarily outside her control , and it was a feeling she loathed . |