Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1980 I was at the Cleveland debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter . |
| 2 | ‘ When I found out they were still alive I was over the moon . ’ |
| 3 | I should like to say how grateful I was to the kind gentleman who pulled me clear . |
| 4 | Well I had another I was in the er I got some much leave you know , then we had to come back to er at back of the er where it er . |
| 5 | Fergus had divined how afraid she was of the doll-mask and had dealt with it in his own way , daring her to let it all hang out , quoting Yeats at her in his Irish voice . |
| 6 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |
| 7 | How different it was in the Star Zoo ! |
| 8 | Speaking to defence writers , he made clear he was against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation taking over responsibility for all peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia should a ceasefire and peace be agreed . |
| 9 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 10 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 11 | As its critic Richard Grove had pointed out , the original plan was for the trees to live much longer ( and become more valuable timber ) , only the Commission had badly underestimated how windy it was in the British Isles , and the Sitka spruce suffered badly from ‘ wind-blow ’ , which stressed the timber and made sure that the trees would never reach the grand dimensions they do in their native temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 12 | In January 690 he was in the second year of his reign , so his accession took place in 688 , no doubt in the immediate aftermath of Caedwalla 's abdication . |
| 13 | The blank pages in my diary testify as much , and in addition that I was too apathetic to continue recording just how bored I was in the periods between my bouts of organising activity . |
| 14 | By ten-thirty I was in the tent mending my shorts . |
| 15 | My Lord Mayor , my Lord Mayor , I started by saying how angry and dismayed I was on the twenty fourth of July . |
| 16 | If Spruce was ironic it was in the words not the tone . |
| 17 | When a change finally did occur in 1929 it was for the worse . |
| 18 | In few cases was the curriculum criticized adversely , but in one or two cases a particular course was questioned in terms of how appropriate it was for the pupils , or because an aspect of the curriculum was underdeveloped . |
| 19 | A group of fifth form pupils when asked for their response after using a simulation on the Arab-Israeli situation , remarked that one thing it had demonstrated was how easy it was for the countries to slide into war ! |
| 20 | The list shows how easy it was at the time ( 1860 ) to raise money for a line intended to run from Craven Arms to Montgomery , and what a number of persons , sufficiently well-disposed to the district to advance such large sums would be deprived of all chance of recouping themselves by completing the line , if the policy of closing it was adopted . |
| 21 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
| 22 | In 1332 he shared Baliol 's triumph at the battle of Dupplin Moor and in 1333 he was in the victorious army which defeated the Scots at Halidon Hill and restored Baliol to his throne after a brief Scottish rebellion . |
| 23 | Boyle spoke yesterday of how delighted he was for the two athletes and the satisfaction their golden double gave him . |
| 24 | Some were convinced it was in the market again yesterday . |
| 25 | In so far as the situation changed in the 1790s it was to the extent that such payments became systematised both as a regular basis for relieving poverty and in being tied to a scale of bread prices . |
| 26 | This point is proved by the officer or warden describing how visible he was to the driver , e.g. ‘ I was clearly visible to a driver approaching the crossroads etc … |
| 27 | At five feet eight she was above the average height for a woman . |
| 28 | It was obvious I was in the way . |
| 29 | ‘ Fame must be such a bore , ’ she quipped , determined to show him how unimpressed she was by the eyelash-fluttering of the women and the hearty handshakes of their escorts as they traded banter and insults with him . |
| 30 | While Iran was undergoing fundamental changes in the seventies he was on the outside , instead of authority at home . |