Example sentences of "[pron] was [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was friends with him for a week and he was very eloquent . |
| 2 | ‘ I was Ronni to everyone before I could even walk . ’ |
| 3 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 4 | I was seconds behind you , entering the hole , but I 've only just arrived . |
| 5 | I admit I was party to their tricks for a while but in Brittany the Luciferi began to remove , through assassination or spurious trials , any who opposed the French crown . |
| 6 | " Whatever it was you said to him has caused him to cancel the work I was doing for him . |
| 7 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 8 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 9 | Some lenders have already had their fingers burnt and have had to write off loans and lose their investments , rather than take on responsibility for contaminated land which was part of their security . |
| 10 | Was it a Government commitment which was part of their manifesto ? |
| 11 | ‘ He gave me so much — quite apart from sexual fulfilment , which was part of it , and a very exciting and wonderful part because he taught me so much about sex . ’ |
| 12 | These he carried home , partly because the little room lacked storage space , partly to appease the secretive , magpie instinct which was part of his nature : he loved to keep , hide , obfuscate , cover his tracks ; he had fantasies in the watches of the night of other scholars stealing a march on him and publishing the definitive study of Walter Machin first ( though how that would be possible , in view of his privileged position , he would have been hard put to it to say ) . |
| 13 | Gerry , a member of the Belfast Telegraph staff for 25 years , and previously with the Irish News , underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation in 1983 but within a week he had started writing his column again from his hospital bed — a column which was part of his life . |
| 14 | Her decision to decline the Home Office job — which was promotion from her previous junior role at the Health Department — surprised her colleagues at Westminster . |
| 15 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 16 | Since then she has written to tell us of her first reply and we thought you 'd also be interested in some of the suggestions that came in , including Dee Murton 's account of the origin of these cardboard cones which was news to us . |
| 17 | But the rumbling hulk of the ship was dense with the sounds and smells of men on pay-day — and she was part of their pay . |
| 18 | He was part of her ; she was part of him . |
| 19 | Perhaps they thought she was part of his troupe ? |
| 20 | She was part of his life . |
| 21 | She was sure the neighbourhood would initially be outraged at her living alone , despite the presence of more servants than she knew what to do with , but she was proof against their opinion and she would only be a nine days ' wonder in any case . |
| 22 | She was godmother to my baby , and when it grew she took to it , and used to have it about her at the Castle , saying to everyone it was an orphan . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought she was friends with everybody . |
| 24 | She was home to him , even after all the other women . |
| 25 | She was fishing in her reticule as she spoke , and from it she produced a handkerchief tied in a loose bundle . |
| 26 | She was larger than life , she had seen the world , she was game for anything , she was jolly and vibrant , spoke her mind ; all in all , she was fun to be with . |
| 27 | Perversely , she was cross with him for having survived when she had spent the weekend fretting . |
| 28 | She was cross with herself , and she was also very hungry , she 'd had nothing much all day . |
| 29 | She was sort of she was sort of erm a bit snobbish . |
| 30 | That , it occurred to her , was something she was doing of her own choice . |