Example sentences of "[prep] was [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well , the player I was most afraid of was Jack Nicklaus .
2 The moralistic female I was particularly thinking of was George Eliot , because Nietzsche , the German writer , actually complained that she was a particularly moralistic female , but I was also thinking of people like Mrs Henry Wood and Amy Le Fevre and a few others like that .
3 Here she was , talking to Nigel , who , admittedly , was very attractive in a blatant sort of way , and all she could think of was David Kent 's long eyelashes and his beautiful brown eyes !
4 One of the easiest to get along with was Rosie Michelle , a small cheerful Cockney girl who was definitely in awe of no-one .
5 Ill be sending my comments on the Sunderland Match later — but a revolutionary idea we came up with was velcro shirts … with stick on everything …
6 The only woman Peter Bleech-Palmer had ever slept with was Tina Darne .
7 Thatcher really did have a sex change , and the one she changed with was Paddy Ashdown , who used to be a man .
8 I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick .
9 One young soldier I trained with was Tony Rees , from Whitchurch , Bristol .
10 Whatever happened , the last person he wanted to have anything more to do with was Eleanor Fuller .
11 The one tourist trap we fell into was St Tropez .
12 Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems .
13 My ward is Braintree East and the only person who came round or dropped any literature in was Mr Elwyn Bishop for the Labour Party .
14 This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y .
15 To her dismay , as she pushed open the door of the treatment-room the first person she set eyes on was David Markham .
16 The Lord Mayor who saved the king and all that he stood for was William Walworth .
17 One of the things we did n't mention , deliberately , which I , I know Richard said they had a long debate about was child labour .
18 Now , the topic that Sheila asked me to talk about was skin care .
19 ‘ What I was thinking about was Mrs Ramsay . ’
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