Example sentences of "was [adj] [coord] [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was pregnant and it was just starting to show . |
| 2 | The coffee was strong and they were both hungry . |
| 3 | We 've , into the village , we lived out in the countryside till I was eight , and we come down into the I should say town should n't I , we come down into the town when I was eight and I was there till I was twenty two , and I came up here , when I got married . |
| 4 | In the end I had to admit he was right and I 'm still extending and using the ideas where they apply to my present job . |
| 5 | As it turned out I was right and it was just wonderful . |
| 6 | He did n't really live up to expectations , he was n't he did n't work hard enough I feel , he was lazy and he was too used to teaching abroad |
| 7 | It is in the north that Richard 's power was greatest and he is now usually regarded as a northern figure . |
| 8 | It is in the north that Richard 's power was greatest and he is now usually regarded as a northern figure . |
| 9 | but there used to be a caravan down here , I 'm not joking the value of stuff that was in it , was unbelievable and it was so clean and every thing had a place and it was all mirrored inside , cos he liked the mirrors and , or glass work , oh it was beautiful |
| 10 | None the less I had found the evening reassuring and felt no difficulty in saying that I was sorry but I was suddenly most awfully tired and if no one minded I thought I would go to bed . |
| 11 | This was exciting and I was very soon trying crystals of all sorts of substances taken from the shelves of my own and my colleagues ' laboratories . |
| 12 | It was brave and it was also right . ’ |
| 13 | First , non-response was high and it is now known that , as a category , non-respondents are often very different in a number of relevant respects from those who do respond . |
| 14 | After all , the pub was crowded and it was nearly Christmas . |
| 15 | It certainly was warm and they were really dear people . |
| 16 | Yesterday 's ceremony was splendid but I was almost overcome before entering the room where we signed . |
| 17 | Patsy , looking like the faithful old black mammy slave in a film except that she was white and she was only twenty-five . |
| 18 | Erm we did n't play cards he was a bit he was okay but he was obviously he 's finding it hard at times . |
| 19 | As he bathed , a sycamore leaf fell between his shoulder blades so that , like Achilles , his perfection was flawed and it was there that the treacherous Lord Hagen thrust his spear . |
| 20 | The Cagney phenomenon was remarkable but it was also very complex and of great long-term significance . |
| 21 | His memory was remarkable but it was often frustrating when an interesting story was interrupted while he talked about the family background of a man he 'd met once in Iowa in the early 1960s . |
| 22 | and she was going out with him like and seeing pictures of her when she was younger and she 's just the sa , big but |
| 23 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 24 | ‘ When I first started going to open-cast sites I was unusual and it was pretty well guaranteed to stop operations in their tracks . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I was 11 and it 's still very clear in my mind . |
| 26 | The Council of the Law Society 's unfavourable reaction to critical reports was predictable but it is more interesting to note the strong sense of resentment that the profession should be considered a proper subject for such investigations . |
| 27 | It 's not what you would say was logical but it is very complex . |
| 28 | Modigliani saw the potential of the boy , who ironically became Beatrice 's lover within a few years when he was 18 and she was over 40 . |
| 29 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 30 | John Reed was fourteen and I was only ten . |