Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think David thought he was the artist and he knew what he wanted to do — which I think is actually true — the artist basically does know what he wants to do — but I think the manager should just be there to sort out the finance and try to keep you on a the straight and narrow . |
| 2 | Meredith thought it was the smile of the cat who 'd found a whole vat of cream . |
| 3 | The opposition said it was the work of SAVAK , the secret police . |
| 4 | However , supporters said it was the answer to Richmond 's declining trade and was the only available site in the town . |
| 5 | FURIOUS Millwall claimed they were the victims of a controversial penalty decision yesterday . |
| 6 | If there were absentees from the gathering of Khans and Noyons which waited sycophantically in the antechamber through which they left the palace , Alexei supposed they were the result rather of an excess of celebration than of flight in the face of possible discovery or inquisition . |
| 7 | Endill presumed it was the box of questions the Bookman had told him about . |
| 8 | McNally alleged he was the victim of an unprovoked blow to the face which caused him to fall hitting his head on the floor . |
| 9 | In so far as Jupiter survived he was the personification of Providence or Destiny . |
| 10 | Mr Sugar said it was the machine 's ability to recognise handwriting that set it ‘ worlds apart ’ from technology already available . |
| 11 | Labour leader John Williams said it was the authority 's policy not to have an official contact with the South African government . |
| 12 | He did so well he has since won three England caps as a midfielder and Liverpool decided he was the man they wanted , although they have tried him back in his striking role in recent games . |
| 13 | Police sources said it was the detonator — with a small package of Semtex at its core — which failed to ignite and set off the bags of nitrate-based fertiliser which were packed into the rear of the van . |
| 14 | ‘ Nicola said he was the man sent over to organise things for the Mafia . |
| 15 | Katherine came back and their marriage lasted twenty-nine years , to end in 1963 when Quinn admitted he was the father of a son born to an Italian girl . |
| 16 | ‘ Most people assumed it was the Iranians who blew the whistle on North , McFarlane and Poindexter , ’ Coleman says . |
| 17 | Dyson assumed they were the company 's directors , bankers , and financial advisers ; they all had an air of unassuming integrity and human dignity which in Dyson 's experience was acquired only by daily contact with very large sums of other people 's money . |
| 18 | For sixteen years after the heavenly wedding , she felt ‘ a flame of fire ’ in her breast , which God told her was the heat of the Holy Ghost . |
| 19 | Staff thought he was the stripogram booked for a stewardess 's farewell party . |
| 20 | There were only three divisions in the city — east , west , and central — and each of us in our own division knew we were the élite ; for just as the men in the west were certain they were best , so the men from the east remained convinced of their own superiority . |
| 21 | Which former Hereford United goalkeeper and prospective parliamentary candidate announced he was the son of God , then said he was a snowplough instead ? |
| 22 | When a mis-fire occurred it was the practice to clear out the hole down to the powder , insert the pricker , and again stem the hole . |
| 23 | Fielding said it was the Shakespeare that got them going , something to do with the exaltation caused by the tendered handclasp of art . |
| 24 | The girls said it was the room with the round window that faced down the town and that Eve could sit at the window and watch everyone and where they went and who they were with . |
| 25 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 26 | The MP said it was the duty of the Government to ask the Saudis to give special consideration to Britons working in their country and , in effect , to give them dispensation from certain of the Islamic punishments . |
| 27 | But tonight the Department of Health said it was the responsibility of health authorities to manage the internal market , and the first priority should be the patient . |
| 28 | Masklin supposed it was the machine 's equivalent of a nome getting up in the morning . |
| 29 | Newton said he was the victim of a late sliding tackle by Mr Hallam . |
| 30 | ‘ I was talking about some of the funny things that happen there and Mum said it was the sort of place he should be going to . ’ |