Example sentences of "was a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The cheers melted into gasps of admiration and roars of approval from the stands as , in turn , this famous pair of chasers made some of the most prodigious leaps ever seen on an English racecourse , ’ wrote Len Thomas in the Sporting Life : ‘ It was a spectacle which I shall never forget . ’ |
| 2 | It was a spectacle which I shall never forget . |
| 3 | The most she 's ever given us was a tenner she gave us one ga ga , for going away . |
| 4 | George Rogerson of Stretton was a servant who owned goods valued at £4 and was reclassed as a husbandman in the subsidy . |
| 5 | ‘ If I was a Romany I 'd have ended up fighting Nahum , ’ said Seb , trying not to allow the emotion he felt to show . |
| 6 | Dr Leitch was a tonic himself , his bright eyes and Australian manner made him a favourite with nurses and children . |
| 7 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 8 | It was a doctrine which had grown obsolete . |
| 9 | cos that was a bend there was n't it , obviously . |
| 10 | Well George got on with a lot of people like that but of course , he was a Mason you see . |
| 11 | Ricky was a 4-year-old whose behaviour at nursery had been described as ‘ hyperactive ’ . |
| 12 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 13 | One of these AIDS victims was a haemophiliac who probably contracted the disease through infected blood products . |
| 14 | Now , ready to leave for her afternoon and evening 's fun she thought it unlikely that she would meet anyone she knew in Fleet Street , or even up West with Rose , and anyway it was a chance which she was prepared to take , for she intended her little excursion to be the basis of yet another article . |
| 15 | There was a chance they would try to rush him , but it would take a fraction of a second to release his grip on the open clothes-peg . |
| 16 | She had a terrible urge just to chuck it at Evelyn 's feet and run away , but she knew if she did that there was a chance she might burst into tears . |
| 17 | It was a chance she simply could n't take . |
| 18 | When Margaret Hughes arrived at court in Leominster she knew there was a chance she 'd be sent to prison . |
| 19 | John MacEwen said he 'd follow me in his pick-up , and that the journey would probably kill him , but it was a chance I had to take , he was definitely going to die if I left him there . |
| 20 | No one had the Art Room , the Science Lab , the Handwork Room , the Staff Common Room or the Headmaster 's Study , though there was a chance someone would one day . |
| 21 | After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’ |
| 22 | He thought and then said easily , " She was wondering whether there was a chance he might ask for a transfer now that Howarth has been in post a year . |
| 23 | I hoped it would be put to use , though there was a chance it might be just ballast for the journey . |
| 24 | There was a chance it might grow into the international peacekeeper its founders had wanted . |
| 25 | She was easily distracted by any noise , particularly if there was a chance it was food or another bird calling , and this sometimes made it difficult for me to make her concentrate on what I thought she should be doing . |
| 26 | And , ‘ When I was a boy it was always considered bad form to talk about food or money . |
| 27 | I was nourished on stories like these ; William Wallace , slaying half a dozen English soldiers with his fishing rod ; Bruce , before Bannockburn , felling an English knight with one stroke from his slender battle-axe ; and when I was a boy I contracted a mortal dread of dying in bed . |
| 28 | ‘ Ever since I was a boy I have dreamed of playing at St Andrews in God 's country . ’ |
| 29 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 30 | ‘ When I was a boy I knew your part of the country very well , ’ he said . |