Example sentences of "was a [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 2 | If it was a shock that made her quiet , it 'll be a shock 'll bring her round again . ’ |
| 3 | Peter was a most agreeable guy but was a non-journalist and found it difficult to adapt to what was wanted in an unfamiliar role . |
| 4 | It was a mark that controlled his life . |
| 5 | Harold Lock has been coming to the pool since he was a child and says it would be a crime to close it down . |
| 6 | He was a researcher but said he was a top consultant . |
| 7 | With his hair slicked wetly back and his shirt cast casually over one tanned shoulder , leaving his impressively muscular torso bare , he was a vision that turned her mouth into a desert . |
| 8 | He was a free-thinker and respected his wife 's freedom . |
| 9 | This was a subject that embarrassed him sorely . |
| 10 | He was handsome and educated , so people thought he was a gentleman and trusted him . |
| 11 | I wish him and his friends no evil , ’ said Bishop Jon , shaking down his book-satchel and peering into it , ‘ but it 's a difficult thing to make plans for your country with them sitting there , their heads switching from this shoulder to the other , and so sleek you would think it was a cow that licked them all . |
| 12 | It was a tag that surprised me very much the first time I heard it … but now I 've stopped worrying . |
| 13 | Jesus taught that discipleship was a journey and following him a narrow path ( Mk. 8.34 ) . |
| 14 | It was a thought that made her breathing grow even shorter , and blackness was on her , and everything disappeared , to reappear a few moments later . |
| 15 | Searle was a rogue and used it for his own purposes . |
| 16 | Mr Allan admitted keeping houses secure was a problem and said it seemed that young children were to blame for most of the damage and fires in the street . |
| 17 | Some are based on a wrong premise : I remember a Labour one in 1979 which pre-supposed that the world would think Mrs Thatcher was a bogeywoman and said something like : ‘ The day you forgot to vote , Mrs Thatcher became the next prime minister . ’ |
| 18 | And he wanted , he was a man that knew what he was doing . |
| 19 | Jean-Claude 's use of the word — the way he spat it out as if dirt clung to it — was a blasphemy that made me feel sick . |
| 20 | It was a case that bothered him because he felt that in the Assize Court the unfortunate man 's chances had been wrecked by that fool of a cocky young barrister who had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what had happened . |
| 21 | We wasted days and days dancing in the Pink Pussy Club , yawning at Fat Mattress at the Croydon Greyhound , ogling strippers on Sunday mornings in a pub , sleeping through Godard and Antonioni films , and enjoying the fighting at Millwall Football Ground , where I forced Changez to wear a bobble-hat over his face in case the lads saw he was a Paki and imagined I was one too . |
| 22 | There was a lilt that reminded him of Ella Fitzgerald . |
| 23 | It was a woman that it was a woman that did it . |
| 24 | Strangely , it was a job that satisfied him , for he did it at his own pace and in his own way , and provided he did it well , which he did , then there was nobody to disturb him . |
| 25 | To be fair to him , it was a wretchedness that haunted him . |
| 26 | It was a move that sealed him in Mrs O'Neill 's affections : he now brought her free ice-cream as well as the traditional Rocky Road . |
| 27 | Dunkirk in the early summer of 1940 meant the arrival of an exhausted Belgian soldier , who was a teacher and helped me with my French . |
| 28 | ( It was a pattern that repeated itself , and Helen oft en recognized its therapeutic value for herself and Edward at moments of difficulty throughout their married life . ) |
| 29 | Can somebody tell me here why Robert Burns is so celebrated when he was a womanizer and neglected his wife why ? |
| 30 | He was a dour middle-aged man , who feared he was a failure and compensated himself with an excessively professorial beard and a punctiliously formal manner . |