Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I took it off afterwards , my hair was a mess , so I put on a turban or tied in back with a band , which is what I do every day . |
| 2 | ‘ My hair was a mass of dried up matted tangles , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Mind you , my hair was a lot better when I was having it done . |
| 4 | you have , it probably you ca n't , ye yeah but my hair was the right length before . |
| 5 | My driver was a cheerful young man named Adrian Scanlon , who boasted a curly moustache . |
| 6 | My classwork was very untidy , and my handwriting was the despair of my teachers . |
| 7 | What went wrong in my case was the timing . |
| 8 | My chest was a flaming cavern of agony . |
| 9 | So my drug was an accidental discovery that can not be repeated . |
| 10 | My mule was a 17-year-old snow-white gelding called Vaquero — Spanish for cowboy . |
| 11 | The souvenirs on sale , though , were of intriguing awfulness ; my favourite was a plastic female head enclosing a dried and shrivelled bouquet — a dead-metaphor version of the French custom of naming women after flowers , perhaps . |
| 12 | My favourite was a Wendy house which he 'd furnished with a tiny drop-leaf mahogany table , two matching chairs and a T.V. with clicking knobs and a picture of the Queen behind the perspex screen . |
| 13 | Of the three flea-pits the town boasted my favourite was the pavilion , at the Coatham end of the prom . |
| 14 | There were some interesting compromises … my favourite was the lady with the Rottweiler . |
| 15 | For me , my attachment was a love/hate affair . |
| 16 | My mum was the only one who . |
| 17 | My mum my mum was the best mum ever . |
| 18 | My Mum was the only white person who lived in the whole house , a point not unnoticed by me since I often asked her how come she lived there with us when everyone else was black … |
| 19 | The cave at the back of my tent was a good place to keep my food , and so I called it my ‘ kitchen ’ . |
| 20 | My sister was no ordinary woman — no woman ever is , but to me , my sister less than any . |
| 21 | When my sister was a baby he used to get up in the night to see her . |
| 22 | But I think my sister was a bit scared of him , she felt he was a stranger being in u in er soldier 's uniform you know . |
| 23 | My sister was a Wren years ago . |
| 24 | My sister was the person who 'd been the trouble , she had boyfriends in infant school , I was the girl who always beat up the boys in infant school ! |
| 25 | All I know is that my presence was no surprise to them , but they decided to go ahead with the drop anyway . |
| 26 | Very high-class — and — my cheque was a box of notepaper with all the comic characters round the margins . |
| 27 | Then my Rokeya was a ghost , she suddenly thought . |
| 28 | But if a matter came to a head that withdrawing my labour was the only way to resolve it , that I thought was the only way to resolve it , I 'd go out and do it again . |
| 29 | I felt that in my mind was a compass , not of our short journey here but of oar life to eternity . |
| 30 | My mind was a blank ; I automatically went through some drills and some stretching . |