Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [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 | I ca n't understand why he did n't know you were n't the only woman in Garry 's life . ’ |
| 3 | It was nice to know she was n't the only one to suffer from his outrageous behaviour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | How do you know it was n't the other way around ? ’ |
| 6 | Shame it was n't the top floor . ’ |
| 7 | But it seemed I was n't the only one with such fancies . |
| 8 | He 'd speedily seen I was n't the typical Danuese . |
| 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 | I could not believe I was not the only one and it was such a relief . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt betrayed , ’ said Quinn , ‘ when I discovered I was n't the first man . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | I left her because I discovered she was not the pure country girl I thought . |
| 17 | But he 'd discover she was n't the malleable little miss , if he tried to push her too far . |
| 18 | I know it was only the extra weight of the Cross that got me up that hill . |
| 19 | All right , I know it was hardly the All-England championships ; I know it was only the badminton club doubles competition . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ We looked at the tournaments in the context of the whole winter and decided they were not the best preparation for a challenging series against the West Indies . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I suppose it was not the done thing for a book of Rambles . |
| 24 | Suppose it were not the whole thing but part of a pattern ? |
| 25 | ‘ In reality , we believe he was simply the perfect rapist . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That terrain was tax , and I believe it was not the best territory for us to choose . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ That terrain was tax and I believe it was not the best territory for us to choose . ’ |
| 28 | I believe it was once the private property of Tsar Nicholas . |
| 29 | I guess it was n't the first tournament to be won and lost on the Road Hole at St Andrews . |
| 30 | It was during this first day of the journey that Tallis realized they were not the only travellers moving north , towards the marshlands . |