Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] was [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we all clambered off the bus and entered the school I started to become a bit more relaxed as I realised I was n't the only person there who had butterflies as big as eagles in their stomachs . |
| 2 | It was nice to know she was n't the only one to suffer from his outrageous behaviour . |
| 3 | It was no comfort at all to know she was probably the only female in existence who did n't thrill to its rich , deep tones , who was left completely unmoved by its huskily sensual undertones . |
| 4 | How do you know it was n't the other way around ? ’ |
| 5 | Shame it was n't the top floor . ’ |
| 6 | But it seemed I was n't the only one with such fancies . |
| 7 | He 'd speedily seen I was n't the typical Danuese . |
| 8 | all , you know when it was transferred there was only the two of us . |
| 9 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 10 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
| 11 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 12 | The scientists , recently returned from a visit to the region , detailed how irrigation and agricultural policies — in particular , the Soviet cotton industry — are continuing to destroy what was once the fourth largest area of fresh water in the world . |
| 13 | Wandsworth and Pentonville , in London , with rather less capacity , were built at about the same time to serve what was then the largest city in the world . |
| 14 | By April he had recovered sufficiently to travel to America once more , to see his sisters ; this visit is perhaps most remarkable for the fact that he addressed the largest assembly ever gathered to attend a literary lecture ( he also received what was then the largest fee for such an event , some two thousand dollars ) . |
| 15 | I could not believe I was not the only one and it was such a relief . |
| 16 | Here a building is shown which was probably the old Vicarage , later to be the first Halling school . |
| 17 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 18 | G. On the western lowlands Chester ( 58 000 people ) is a central place where the Romans and the Normans defended what was once the lowest bridging point over the River Dee and so also the route into northern Wales . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt betrayed , ’ said Quinn , ‘ when I discovered I was n't the first man . |
| 20 | I know I was n't the only one who saw your work was important enough to be worth backing , but you must admit you owe me something ! |
| 21 | I left her because I discovered she was not the pure country girl I thought . |
| 22 | But he 'd discover she was n't the malleable little miss , if he tried to push her too far . |
| 23 | You know everything was just the same as it is here . |
| 24 | I know it was only the extra weight of the Cross that got me up that hill . |
| 25 | All right , I know it was hardly the All-England championships ; I know it was only the badminton club doubles competition . |
| 26 | For the time being , the Dutch succeeded in retaining first place in Asian and African trade and were able to retain what was perhaps the largest share in the transit traffic to Spanish America . |
| 27 | But then too late they realized there was only the one power point in the garage and they had n't got enough adaptors to take all the amplifiers and instruments . |
| 28 | What interested me was how the editorial approach to these readers compared with the neighbouring ad : ‘ A weak Gordon 's & Tonic ( please do not adjust your magazine ) ’ , it said , wetly . |
| 29 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 30 | I suppose it was not the done thing for a book of Rambles . |