Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father 's name was Theunis Krankoor , and it is probable that either he or his father was the first person to take that name too . |
| 2 | You were a fish wife because your mother , or your granny , or your auntie was a fish wife . |
| 3 | My father was the head waiter at The Savoy , my mother opened one of the first milk bars in Soho , and my grandmother was a vegetable cook at London 's Park Lane Hotel . |
| 4 | I never work because it was a small workshop that I worked in and in the south side where I belonged , there was an awful lot of Polish people and Jews and they had all these wee furniture places and they made up There was quite a community you know , they were had wee workshops and cabinet makers and my boss was a Latvian . |
| 5 | My classwork was very untidy , and my handwriting was the despair of my teachers . |
| 6 | Early in the war , in London , they set up something called Special Operations Executive , and my father was a natural for it . |
| 7 | The title of the holding company was The British Cocoa and Chocolate Company and my father was the chairman . |
| 8 | and my father was the sexton of the church . |
| 9 | It was never like this , and my father was an Old Bastard if you must know . |
| 10 | Er we also did general engineering because my father was an engineer er and my grandfather was a blacksmith , my father was an engineer . |
| 11 | birthday was on the eighth of September or before , if it was in the summer holidays or up until the eighth of September , you could leave school and my birthday was the eighth of September so I left school at fourteen . |
| 12 | Curbishley , who will defend her Schools title at Hull next month , said : ‘ I did my first training over hurdles on Thursday and my knee was a bit swollen afterwards . |
| 13 | ‘ I recently went to Ireland , and my visit was the headline news story in every Irish newspaper , but during that time there was not a single column inch devoted to it in the English press , whereas it was very prominently reported in the European press . |
| 14 | My soul breathed between my bones , and my flesh was an encumbrance . |
| 15 | In 1983 I was a bridesmaid , and my brother was a page boy for my auntie 's wedding . |
| 16 | Sir William said yesterday : ‘ My father was a good amateur ornithologist and my mother was a little bit of a botanist . |
| 17 | My grandad was a barber and my mother was a hairdresser so they taught me how to cut hair and it came in very useful , especially when I did National Service . |
| 18 | " I 'm illegitimate and my mother was a Romany . " |
| 19 | Apricot was my mother 's fantasy and my mother was an alcoholic who deserted me . |
| 20 | Playboy was described as a pleasure-primer , its symbol was a rabbit and its bait was the Playmate of the month , the girl who was unfolded in the centre wearing a staple through her navel but not much else . |
| 21 | It is a dead debate , and its tombstone was the BFI Reader Theories of Authorship which offered an inbuilt teleology , a narrative trajectory which led me , as a postgraduate student , away from the embarrassments of romantic individualism to the chastening rigours of poststructuralist thought . |
| 22 | Another officer concluded his own harrowing account of what he had seen that day : The whole affair and its conduct was the most brutal and disgusting I have ever witnessed . |
| 23 | It was named enkephalin and its discovery was a major advance in the search for new analgesics . |
| 24 | They conceived it in the form of a puma and its heart was the ceremonial site which was now the Plaza de Armas . |
| 25 | Sydney 's latest new building , and its pride was the P&O block . |
| 26 | In 1935 a page by David Garnett in the New Statesman first introduced me to her work , and I saw that A House and Its Head was a book likely to give me quite peculiar pleasure . |
| 27 | Raising money for the running of the school and its expansion was a major preoccupation for the governors , but private charity did not fail them . |
| 28 | Leblois said his division would continue to benefit from the recovery of the US economy and its performance was a leading indicator for the group as a whole . |
| 29 | It had nothing to say about the need to reform the way the country was governed and its manifesto was a ‘ job lot of ideas ’ with little sense of direction . |
| 30 | This was one of the older parts of the forest , and its silence was a thousand-year atmosphere so distilled that it was almost physically affecting . |