Example sentences of "was [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Was I the fool who let go of the rudder when the ship was on top of the rock there ? |
| 2 | Was I the best judge ? |
| 3 | Nor was I the innocent bystander taking his lunchtime beer in his local , to whom Shmekov slipped the information , two hours before the police grabbed him , that altered the Alliance 's whole strategy towards the opposing ’ powers in the Southern Apex . |
| 4 | If there was one ( albeit very small ) consolation about the sale of Dave Batty , it was that it finally did away with an important inferiority complex of mine — was I the only person in West Yorkshire not to be best mates with the man ? ? |
| 5 | Er it was I the only thing that that brought it to mind was Ann herself stumbled over it as she said it you know playwright |
| 6 | When I where was I the other day ? |
| 7 | that was you the night the doctor came round he , he nearly threw up |
| 8 | But it was she the older , the larger and clumsier , who listened to him over supper . |
| 9 | Was she the author of the Casket Letters , those letters which totally implicated her in the murder , or were they forgeries ? |
| 10 | The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision . |
| 11 | If anyone could have written it , why was she the only one to have done so ? |
| 12 | Was she the bait to lure him into a trap ? |
| 13 | He was a tawny lion poised for the kill — and was she the prey ? |
| 14 | Was she the woman we met on the road last night ? ’ |
| 15 | Was she the third person , whose presence he had always sensed ? |
| 16 | ‘ You mean , was she the sort of girl that other girls could be friends with ? |
| 17 | Was she the only one in this part of the world who only spoke one language ? |
| 18 | Was she the only person in the world who felt that love was too precious a commodity to cheapen by offering it as a stake in a game where the prize was emotional titillation ? |
| 19 | Not only was she the first female to break through the glass ceiling in Engineering , but to become a star throughout the company because she did the job with such panache ? |
| 20 | Erm h was she the same age as he was or y or younger or How old was your mother ? |
| 21 | Was she the one that was killed ? |
| 22 | But as I say , in the Sugar House so we I mean , we 've ju we , all we did was , was we the mass the big central area we just literally sort of lino type floor and carpeted round the edges |
| 23 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 24 | Did Cook achieve all this without competition , was he the only excursion agent in business in the second half of the nineteenth century ? |
| 25 | ‘ Was he the first , Cal ? ’ |
| 26 | Was he the type of the world into which they had so unthinkingly plunged ? |
| 27 | As of when was he the feminist gospel . |
| 28 | Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ . |
| 29 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 30 | ‘ Not only was he the outstanding leader of our tax practice , ’ said Grant Thornton managing partner David McDonnell , ‘ he was also the architect of its development in the early days . |