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Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But I realized I was different from the Brazilians , and that was when I started to rediscover my own identity . ’
2	A lot of people said last year that I should n't have had a factory bike , so I was happy that my early results demonstrated I was worthy of an NSR .
3	Say I was involved with a gallery and they called me up tomorrow , and said , ‘ Alison I want you to do this painting ’ , I could just comply .
4	Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm
5	Although she backed the plan to ‘ keep Hong Kong prosperous ’ until 1997 in the Commons yesterday , she let the Cabinet know she was displeased by the row .
6	Although she backed the plan to ‘ keep Hong Kong prosperous ’ until 1997 in the Commons yesterday , she let the Cabinet know she was displeased by the row .
7	When I visited the old housekeeper later that day , I found she was amazed by the news that I was going to marry the master .
8	It was a rather dreadful feeling to know you were alone inside a castle of giants .
9	Even in rebellion , as Mervyn James has noted of the Lincolnshire rebellions of 1536 against Henry VIII , the rebels maintained they were loyal to the king .
10	Initially both brothers found they were delighted with the arrangement .
11	The whole family liked to be heard , as if they wanted people to know they were alive in a world where young and old alike were here one day and gone the next .
12	Some say they were unaware of the full impact of the new line management structure when they met to discuss it .
13	Police say they were shocked at the range of cars they discovered .
14	State officials say they were pre-occupied with a more serious problem .
15	Police say they were astonished at the openness of the drug dealing .
16	Number 133 , women 's clothes and hosiery from Paris , with garments displayed in the window that Charlie did n't consider it was right for a man to be looking at .
17	This says I was good at the doctor 's today ?
18	After the Christmas break I was unable in the world cup at Garmisch to build on my FIS race result .
19	She was born and brought up near Moscow , studied the violin at the conservatoire there , and says she was restless from the start .
20	‘ I hope you were nice to the dwarf .
21	The river was white , and on the ferry in mid-stream , it seemed we were adrift in a cloud .
22	He switched on the radio and learned that temperatures of minus 6 were expected tonight ; the forecaster believed they were due for a ‘ cold snap ’ which could last at least a week .
23	Wendy Wakefield from Help the Aged says they were surprised by the results of a Morri survey which questioned seven hundred people over the age of sixty five about what they knew about flu .
24	Three other people had also said they were interested in the last few days .
25	He says he was delighted with the aunt 's response and now he and his wife Diana are preparing the papers for an adoption .
26	Like many other primary school teachers , he says he was stunned by the level at which the specimen paper had been pitched .
27	Even now he says he was surprised by the appointment , which caused him to make himself unavailable for the British Lions ' tour of South Africa .
28	Yu was vice-president of engineering and vice-president of business development at Everex from 1986 to 1991 and Lau was previously treasurer and vice-president of operations at Everex , where he says he was instrumental in the development of the Abaton and EMAC Macintosh divisions .
29	UniSoft says it was crucial for the six MIPS architecture partners — who have already spent some $1bn collectively on development — to have a migration route to a standard version of Unix .
30	That provision was placed in the contingency because it was un felt it was unclear at the time , what the effect on costs would be , of the sale of link waste .