Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans perhaps thought it was a huge joke to sell a long-coated bitch to someone who was to try to re-establish the breed in another country . |
| 2 | It was draining , but I was grateful to any journalists prepared to listen , even if it was obvious that some papers only felt it was a good story because of the ‘ love interest ’ . |
| 3 | The fact that he obviously thought she was a good nurse pleased her and gave her confidence , while the fact that Belinda had not betrayed his secret and gossiped about his wife and her illness earned his gratitude and respect , so that now they were allies and she knew she would be able to go to him if ever she had a problem at the hospital . |
| 4 | He obviously thought she was a man-hungry piranha , and really who could blame him ? |
| 5 | Instead , sensing a criticism — which this was not , Aunt Lilian was simply asking for information — she gave one of her loud laughs and said , well , she personally thought it was a good thing for a young married woman to cultivate the little niceties of life . |
| 6 | Probably just thought it was a strange foreigner ! |
| 7 | No , I just thought it was a last one that you missed out on , I do n't know . |
| 8 | But his friends just thought he was a crazy obsessive with an unhealthy fascination for the macabre . |
| 9 | They just said it was a sporting incident . ’ |
| 10 | Well , he could understand that , but he still thought it was a wasteful way of keeping the lower ranks occupied , and it did n't square at all with the continual excuses the seneschal and his minions kept making about being under-staffed . |
| 11 | Even afterwards , when the worst was known , he certainly still thought he was a better man than Mengele ; perhaps even the nuclear physicist Edward Teller ( Father of the Hydrogen Bomb , Wicked Uncle to Star Wars ) . |
| 12 | They still thought he was the top British sprinter . |
| 13 | How comforting to read Gill Rowley 's Pet-Hate List ( YWTU , October GH ) about the check-out trolley pushers — I always thought I was the only person in the world who wanted to reverse , screaming hysterically , ‘ Get back ! ’ |
| 14 | Always thought I was the shy one of us two . |
| 15 | I always thought I was the philandering type , but my mind keeps going back to her . |
| 16 | I always thought he was a lonely little chap . |
| 17 | And as they run in er and I always thought it was the best of the show . |
| 18 | You know how I do , I could n't remember that I 'd actually started the the Easter term doing the erm choices etcetera , I always thought it was the later half of that term , the latter half of that term . |
| 19 | He had had dealings with Eddie 's family , and as Eddie says : ‘ My father always said you was a smart man . ’ |
| 20 | I always said it was a good bit of business . |
| 21 | Well , they always said it was the only way to go and he believed it . |
| 22 | they live in the , a beautiful house , a little house , old , very old and erm they always said there was a secret passage underneath and my , my uncle er used to er he used , he named , he named some locks , my uncle did a till lock and when I star began to work there er they were called Salmon Baits and er Mr said to me you know he said er it 's your un they used to call him Trot , my uncle , it 's your uncle Trot that named them and I said was it and it was a till lock and they could n't get them right er they were having trouble with these particular till locks , and er my uncle said to Mr when he went around they were having trouble and he said , all these locks all these things are good for a bait for Salmon and then they were called Salmon Bait and they were traded as Salmon Bait so |
| 23 | My dad voted Labour , my brother and my sis my brother and my dad , mu my brother and my mum voted Liberal Democrat my dad pissed off said it was a wasted vote , but |
| 24 | A GP once said it was the nearest he ever got to brain surgery . |
| 25 | The gangly singer — who later admitted he was the worse the wear for drink — ineptly mimicked Kylie and her dancers for two embarrassing minutes . |
| 26 | He told the hearing in Chelsea , west London , auditors first thought £34,500 was missing but later realised it was a small fortune . |
| 27 | I also realized it was the perfect frame — that I 'd be accused . ’ |
| 28 | In Canada the British not only deluded themselves that they had defeated the axiom ; they also imagined it was the federal ingredient that had enabled them to do the trick . |
| 29 | The court held that , providing the police honestly and reasonably believed there was a real risk of a breach of the peace , they were entitled to take reasonable preventative action . |
| 30 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |