Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | you have , it probably you ca n't , ye yeah but my hair was the right length before . |
| 2 | My classwork was very untidy , and my handwriting was the despair of my teachers . |
| 3 | What went wrong in my case was the timing . |
| 4 | Of the three flea-pits the town boasted my favourite was the pavilion , at the Coatham end of the prom . |
| 5 | There were some interesting compromises … my favourite was the lady with the Rottweiler . |
| 6 | My mum was the only one who . |
| 7 | My mum my mum was the best mum ever . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What really stands out in my mind was the homage that was instantly paid to a good poem and the individual who had written it . ’ |
| 12 | My mind was the furthest away it could be to playing singles , so I pulled out of a couple of tournaments . |
| 13 | On my visits I watched his development with delight but the occasion which stays in my mind was the following Christmas Day , a year from his arrival . |
| 14 | At the back of my mind was the feeling that I would bump into you in the street . |
| 15 | My granddad was the originator of the |
| 16 | ‘ One reason I continued with my research was the belief that it would help to prevent torture . |
| 17 | I do n't think they would keep my knees happy in bed , and out and about I think I would find myself worrying if my skirt was the right length . |
| 18 | Tell My Horse was the result of one of these trips , written in 1936 as a study of voodoo which , like the ‘ hoodoo ’ of the Southern US , she saw as the African spiritual source underlying the fervour of black Christianity . |
| 19 | My error was the fault of movie-makers and other horror merchants . |
| 20 | The main flaw with the system of categorisation of my work was the omission of the teaching component of the majority of these activities . |
| 21 | Deep in my hamper was the little notebook with its precious list of theatrical lodgings . |
| 22 | My first impression of what is now my home was the apple-scented spare room . |
| 23 | My parents thought my marriage was the first sensible thing I 'd ever done . |
| 24 | Something that immediately caught my attention was the astounding similarity between the picture of Frank on the cover , and our very own Mark Caswell . |
| 25 | The most important one in my opinion was the accredited representative 's right to append a dissenting minority attachment to the official report , which is now happily enshrined in Annex 13 as paragraph 6.11 . |
| 26 | The name that caught my eye was the Probables ' outside-half , Stephen Bachop . |
| 27 | What caught my eye was the headline : ’ Speedy Toxic Waste Eater ’ . |
| 28 | I am still not clear whether my confidence was the product of my faith or whether I had generated a blind optimism to prevent the facts from crushing me . |
| 29 | To my right was the endless sandy sweep and white surf of Rhossili Bay , curving for miles round to the distant headland of Burry Holms . |
| 30 | To my right was the small loch , edged with deep reedy banks of moss and thymy turf . |