Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] was [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I detected a faint smile on his lips , but I did not smile back because my heart was in a turmoil . |
| 2 | My story was about a girl who finds a bedraggled kitten who is really a king . |
| 3 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 4 | My basement was like a swimming pool . |
| 5 | My apprenticeship was in a shop for a year working and adapting and changing and getting an understanding of it all . |
| 6 | Ecstatic scenes greeted Gordon Richards as Pinza was led to the unsaddling enclosure , and although to some he seemed oddly unmoved , he wrote subsequently that ‘ my mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed … the reception which the crowd gave me was something out of this world . ’ |
| 7 | My mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed . |
| 8 | After appel I collected some books from my locker — my locker was in a comer and there was always a pile of block rubbish in front of it so that it was a business to open and shut the door — and went out towards the library . |
| 9 | My subject was French history , and although my focus was on a relatively obscure piece of ecclesiastical history I had the good fortune to work with the most genial and scholarly of humanists , Professor Alfred Cobban of the University of London . |
| 10 | My peg was on a gravel point , it looked perfect for the stick float but as I was fishing for a good weight I opted to start on the feeder . |
| 11 | My back was like a mangled corkscrew , my legs like chicken wishbones . |
| 12 | I went to bed Friday night and my head was like a cor that was really , all round here that was really sort of hurting . |
| 13 | Well I , my education was in a small er the local school , School in Motherwell . |
| 14 | Recently , my wife was on a local bus with a lot of teenage girls coming home from school . |
| 15 | My flat was under an inch of water and I had to move things upstairs . |
| 16 | My father was in a mad rage and — she now bowed her head — ‘ he picked up a shovel and threw it . |
| 17 | ‘ My father was in a camp at the end of the war , ’ Lucy said . |
| 18 | My impression was of a group of people who were seriously interested in the subject and deeply concerned about it . |
| 19 | Now , utterly desolate , my mother was without a home , and , as a result of my father 's death , short of money . |
| 20 | Her hair was in a single pigtail tied with black bow , like one of Nelson 's sailors . |
| 21 | Her hair was in a simple pony-tail , and she pulled out a cotton peaked cap in the team colours for wearing on the track . |
| 22 | Her hair was like a bird 's nest , her skin grey , her leg bleeding . |
| 23 | I do not know whether we dragons loved her or hated her ; her will was like iron , as fast clad as our scaled hides , but her heart was like a songbird in the morning and she was as lovely as the lilies of the field . |
| 24 | Her story was like a tale from a book . |
| 25 | Herbert or Algy or Whatever — the very same who had said ( how original ! ) that her skin was like a peach … |
| 26 | ‘ And my tongue shall announce Thy praise , ’ their response was like a muted echo . |
| 27 | Their camp was on an island in the ice , and the sea ice moved sometimes . |
| 28 | And her handbag was in a box in the kitchen in the first box that you put in the van . |
| 29 | Sandy tried to think of something to say , something that would explain how she felt ; but the image that formed in her mind was of a punchbowl brimming with vomit , and she knew instantly that she was about to do likewise . |
| 30 | Her mind was of an imaginative and spiritual bent , and from the 1930s until her death she was an ardent Christian Scientist . |