Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My classwork was very untidy , and my handwriting was the despair of my teachers . |
| 2 | What went wrong in my case was the timing . |
| 3 | Of the three flea-pits the town boasted my favourite was the pavilion , at the Coatham end of the prom . |
| 4 | There were some interesting compromises … my favourite was the lady with the Rottweiler . |
| 5 | My sister was the person who 'd been the trouble , she had boyfriends in infant school , I was the girl who always beat up the boys in infant school ! |
| 6 | What really stands out in my mind was the homage that was instantly paid to a good poem and the individual who had written it . ’ |
| 7 | At the back of my mind was the feeling that I would bump into you in the street . |
| 8 | My granddad was the originator of the |
| 9 | ‘ One reason I continued with my research was the belief that it would help to prevent torture . |
| 10 | Tell My Horse was the result of one of these trips , written in 1936 as a study of voodoo which , like the ‘ hoodoo ’ of the Southern US , she saw as the African spiritual source underlying the fervour of black Christianity . |
| 11 | My error was the fault of movie-makers and other horror merchants . |
| 12 | The main flaw with the system of categorisation of my work was the omission of the teaching component of the majority of these activities . |
| 13 | What caught my eye was the headline : ’ Speedy Toxic Waste Eater ’ . |
| 14 | I am still not clear whether my confidence was the product of my faith or whether I had generated a blind optimism to prevent the facts from crushing me . |
| 15 | If the burrow to my left represented the squalors of the subconscious , here to my right was the chill of the super-ego . |
| 16 | My husband was the man commissioned by your brother , Banyon , to poison your son . |
| 17 | She said she 'd come back with her husband and I said fine because my husband was the business head of our family as well . |
| 18 | My job , my contact was the forewoman , you see . |
| 19 | The first man chooses a pub along Marsh Wall on the Millwall Dock , which in my day was the kind of place no one ever wore a suit . |
| 20 | My father was the village schoolmaster and I , like my sisters , Helen and Pat , was born in the schoolhouse , a solid , stone-built structure incorporating two large classrooms as well as the usual living quarters . |
| 21 | The title of the holding company was The British Cocoa and Chocolate Company and my father was the chairman . |
| 22 | My father never glorified war , but we were always aware of the traditions of service and the military traditions of the family and in his generation my father was the exemplar . |
| 23 | and my father was the sexton of the church . |
| 24 | ‘ My father was the government . |
| 25 | My father was the Earl of Holden s younger son , she said . |
| 26 | My father was the grandson of Lord Chelmsford , the Lord Chancellor , and was the third son of General Lord Chelmsford . |
| 27 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |
| 28 | I assured him that Nigel Carter would n't dream of playing tricks like that , but the discovery that my replacement was the son of the friend of a friend , one of his own kind , was a further blow . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ The most wonderful experience of my life was the day I went into Spain . |
| 30 | My grandfather was the singer . |