Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan Strachan , Geraldine , Denis , Michael and I were nothing short of ecstatic to be together again , at the slightly larger Vaudeville Theatre . |
| 2 | You and I were nothing . |
| 3 | Even when I was a child , I behaved as if I were one . ’ |
| 4 | We think back to the antihero of Notes from Underground lamenting that he ca n't even call himself a lazy man , and we think sideways to Svidrigailov : ‘ Believe me , if only I were something ; a landowner , say , or a father , a cavalry officer , a photographer , a journalist say — but I 'm nothing , I 've no speciality . ’ |
| 5 | But no one here has treated me as though I were anything but a permanent staff member , so do n't have any worries on that score . ’ |
| 6 | I was nobody . |
| 7 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 8 | Even though as a graduate I was something of an oddity , I was absorbed into the background after a time and people treated me as one of them . |
| 9 | ‘ For many years people thought I was something of a rebel or a madman , ’ Annesley recalled . |
| 10 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |
| 11 | For forty-five years I was something I was n't . |
| 12 | I was something of a child prodigy . |
| 13 | She used to toss her head as she passed me , as if I was something nasty on the roadside that should n't be looked at . |
| 14 | So I was something of a godsend for her . |
| 15 | Erm , well we it 's been accepted and I was , I was something over and the lady was horrified . |
| 16 | They thought I was something the cat brought in . ’ |
| 17 | I was everything he would never be : Oxford educated , widely travelled , still more widely read , a man of the world at ease in several languages . |
| 18 | I was everything he 'd dreamed of . |
| 19 | You know everyone was walking like my hair I did n't know where I was everything that people said would like just echo in my head . |
| 20 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 21 | As it happens , I was one . |
| 22 | A number of people had detected there was something amiss but these people — and I was one — believed that they erred by favouring not Labour but the Conservatives . |
| 23 | When I was one I ate a bun |
| 24 | The late Professor Ragnar Nurkse used to tell his students at Cambridge in the 1950s , of whom I was one , how important it was that Third World countries should develop their agriculture without resorting to the internal combustion engine . |
| 25 | We wasted days and days dancing in the Pink Pussy Club , yawning at Fat Mattress at the Croydon Greyhound , ogling strippers on Sunday mornings in a pub , sleeping through Godard and Antonioni films , and enjoying the fighting at Millwall Football Ground , where I forced Changez to wear a bobble-hat over his face in case the lads saw he was a Paki and imagined I was one too . |
| 26 | I was one shot behind eventual winner Steve Richardson after three rounds and then shot a 79 . |
| 27 | I was one . |
| 28 | But I was one now , fused for a preternatural purpose . |
| 29 | I know because I was one , once as an investigator . |
| 30 | Now I was one who saved a lot myself , and we had some very good holidays . |