Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some soldier saw me , realized I was n't a real major and I suppose he thought I was impersonating an officer or whatever . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Maybe I was too young because I fear I was not an assiduous student . |
| 4 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 5 | It was nice to know she was n't the only one to suffer from his outrageous behaviour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | How do you know it was n't the other way around ? ’ |
| 8 | Is that what you meant by your remark that we did n't know he was n't a mass murderer ? ’ |
| 9 | She looked at the clock , frustrated to find it was only a little after eleven . |
| 10 | Glad to know he was n't a bad man , not a thief , after all . |
| 11 | Shame it was n't the top floor . ’ |
| 12 | But it seemed I was n't the only one with such fancies . |
| 13 | He 'd speedily seen I was n't the typical Danuese . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He says it was quite a large ring distributing films nationally . |
| 17 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 18 | She assumed it was only a temporary lapse in character while he nursed his head but she still determined to keep the conversation going for as long as possible . |
| 19 | They were still close enough to shore for him to return her to the police if she admitted she was not an experienced ocean sailor . |
| 20 | I could not believe I was not the only one and it was such a relief . |
| 21 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 22 | You must understand I was never a strong character like you . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As it happened it was n't a bad lie , so instead of 1-iron , 2-iron to the green , he 's now playing driver , 5-iron . |
| 25 | Now Will brought down an old van er which was scrap it was quite a good body I mean and he painted on it , We 're still open , er something like , Despite Transport and General Workers ' Union picketing we are fully open , and he plonked this van with no wheels on it just the body right th in the entrance of th on his own ground naturally er right in front of the pickets which was like you know tantalizing . |
| 26 | You 'll also remember it was quite a lively debate , history lessons , buckets and spades presented to the platform and a good deal of passion . |
| 27 | In 1928 Green and Mellanby noted that though vitamin A was then known as the growth promoting vitamin , evidence from animal studies showed it was also an anti-infective vitamin . |
| 28 | ‘ I felt betrayed , ’ said Quinn , ‘ when I discovered I was n't the first man . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | I left her because I discovered she was not the pure country girl I thought . |