Example sentences of "[pron] was [noun] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know . |
| 2 | One child , wide-eyed , wrote down this reaction — ‘ I never knew that there was music which made you think ’ . |
| 3 | There was Gerry who made a fortune in the Californian avocado boom and now just wanders the world . |
| 4 | There was evidence he did . |
| 5 | I wa I usually and then lock it and th and when there was visitors she opened up and she left the front door wide open and in there rummaging around ! |
| 6 | Where there was money they played . |
| 7 | In front of him was Chernayev who had not practised his trade of thieving for seventeen years . |
| 8 | In the days of his partnership with Tim Rice , it was Rice who took charge of the " front of house " publicity , handling the round of chat-shows and press interviews with a breezy and plausible charm . |
| 9 | It was Hua who gave the order for Jiang Qing and her associates to be arrested along with many of their supporters . |
| 10 | They 'd only been beaten 3 times this season so you feared the worst , but it was Oxford who struck next ; another no goal , or no penalty , according to Kevin Keegan . |
| 11 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 12 | It was McFarlane who netted the vital goal on Saturday against Edinburgh Civil Service with only 26 seconds remaining . |
| 13 | It was Rune who broke the close embrace , lifting his head away , his hands still tender on her shoulders as he scanned her face , his own features harshly set . |
| 14 | Paul Reynolds held off the challenge of John McPherson to put Drumaness ahead seven minutes from half time and even though a Dunmurry effort was cleared off the line it was Drumaness who squandered the scoring chances in the first half . |
| 15 | On one view , Professor Elton 's , the organization described in the Edwardian ordinances ‘ bore little relation to reality ’ ; it was Cromwell who gave concrete and lasting form to otherwise pious aspirations . |
| 16 | But it was Cromwell who remained the arch repository of true evil in the world , Cromwell who had persecuted Ireland so greatly as to overshadow even Queen Elizabeth who , vilifying Mary Stuart , had put her to a martyr 's death . |
| 17 | During the formative years of broadcasting it was cinema which produced the predominant images of lesbians and gay men . |
| 18 | It was Jo who recognised the value of the ‘ minefield of memories ’ we had stirred up and made visible , and decided to make the work public . |
| 19 | She also holed from 40 feet for a birdie at the short 17th , but it was Mason who preserved their lead . |
| 20 | His voice betrayed him ; she saw at once it was Jake he wanted to talk about . |
| 21 | It was Jake who stared now , his face going still with horror . |
| 22 | And yet it was persons who died in such numbers , without ever necessarily subscribing to the consequences of their own actions . |
| 23 | Then it was Irons who set up Aldridge for the third with a superb pass form inside his own half . |
| 24 | In 1966 it was Beryl who found the advertisement which led to the purchase of the property in Balham which became Medau House , the Society 's Headquarters for many years . |
| 25 | For it was Protestants who got better jobs , who skipped the queue for houses , who made my father work on Christmas day when the union voted against the optional holiday — to keep the Papes in their place . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it was Nestor who stole the show … and how . |
| 27 | More to the point , it was Bagehot who said : ‘ A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities . ’ |
| 28 | It was Mark who had persuaded her to approach the bank for a loan , Mark who had suggested her old friend Linda George , who had graduated in business studies at the same time that Theresa had finished her fashion degree , should join forces with her to organise the commercial side , Mark who had given her enough confidence in herself for her to allow her mother to put up her house as security — something Theresa had fought against even whilst realising there was no other way to secure the loan she needed . |
| 29 | And above all it was Mark who had made her feel loved and special . |
| 30 | On the other hand if Wendy had deliberately misled Margaret and he himself were Svend , her chances of winning her sister away from his wiles were slender to the point of anorexia … especially if it was Suzie who had been so recently in his arms … |