Example sentences of "[was/were] a [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were a ghost and you could choose who you could appear to , Quigley would be a good bet . |
| 2 | Which meant that er you could try and get away if you liked but you as soon as you mentioned you were a baker and they looked at your age you were . |
| 3 | ‘ You were a boy when you came to us , but now you are a man . ’ |
| 4 | It should have been a relatively easy game as Bracknell were without many first team regulars , but their youngsters were a credit as they hustled Abingdon all the way . |
| 5 | She had awakened early , busied herself with her bags and , while she had waited for the taxi repeatedly told herself that men were a species that she would avoid at all costs from here on in . |
| 6 | I mean we 've , I mean at that point you 've got that was the point where you 've got the massive United States aid coming in erm you , you 've got erm United States equipping China with all enormous fire power , sending tanks in etcetera , I mean this was the beginning of , of the realization of the United States that , that the communists were a threat and they did n't like it and they , they were putting massive ai aid erm and , and that there was all that United States war machine erm |
| 7 | ‘ In the beginning things were a struggle and I was a bit lonely , ’ said Gabrielle . |
| 8 | I led her upstairs , took off her wet clothes , bathed and dried her ; she accepting my ministrations automatically , as if she were a child and I her mother . |
| 9 | But there was n't the , the erm ante natal care that there is these days , I mean there were no erm when you went round to se if you were a midwife and you went round to see the prospective mother you 'd say , now you are eating proper meals are n't you ? |
| 10 | And er she picked screwdriver up , well she thought it were a pen and I thought God she 's got a screwdriver and she 's gon na stab me and I put thirty plus thirty four |
| 11 | But if I were a teenager and I saw a TV star telling me that he had taken coke , I would reckon that there must be a reason why the famous spend a fortune on this drug . |
| 12 | Nathan followed Ari around as if he were a dog and she a bitch in oestrus . |
| 13 | That type of thing , or they were A types and they learned to modify their behaviour , and survived or the A types are dead before they get to the top . |
| 14 | He looked down at me as if he were a giant and I had just climbed a beanstalk . |
| 15 | But erm she was saying there were a group that she sort of went were alongside their group which were the |
| 16 | The new cars were a sensation when they first appeared , passengers let old cars pass in order to ride on them , and upon entering removed their hats and looked for a door mat ! |
| 17 | It were a month after they first started playing with the machine that someone hears one of the tunes they were singing on the wireless set . ’ |
| 18 | There were a lot and they included some identical to the set still bulging in his pocket . |
| 19 | Books were a jumble and I had no notion of discriminating between them . |
| 20 | The previous house was no good because , with epilepsy , the stairs were a risk and he had already broken most of his ribs . |
| 21 | And when she worked here , she had her daughter working with her and they were a team and they went like a bomb . |
| 22 | If challenged to justify why blacks are struck from the jury , prosecutors offer the most ridiculous reasons — ‘ he looked dumb ’ , ‘ he lived in the same part of town as the defendant ’ ( most blacks live in the same part of town ) , ‘ he was a mason and I was worried about masonic links ’ ( the prospective juror was a stone mason by profession ) . |
| 23 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 24 | There was a chance that they would not hear if he used his radio . |
| 25 | Fran could n't in all conscience let it happen to Luke Calder now if there was a chance that she could help prevent it . |
| 26 | But if he survived the storm , there was a chance that he could reach the President ahead of Louis , men . |
| 27 | You had to know your Instruction Book very well , because if you locked someone up and they got away with it , next day in court , there was a chance that you might be deemed excessive in your law and of course then you were on your own . |
| 28 | Well er I think some of my earliest memories are er dating to the First World War time when I was a boy and we lived in Street which er during the war , we made a shift to which was really the opposite side of the street . |
| 29 | ‘ And that was from people who I knew , who I had played cricket with since I was a boy and it really hurt . ’ |
| 30 | These have been around so long even I played with them when I was a boy and I 'll bet Kirsty did too . |