Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He obviously thought she was a man-hungry piranha , and really who could blame him ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He did n't treat you with disrespect — he just assumed you were a mere mortal like the rest of us . |
| 8 | Probably just thought it was a strange foreigner ! |
| 9 | But his friends just thought he was a crazy obsessive with an unhealthy fascination for the macabre . |
| 10 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 11 | They just said it was a sporting incident . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They still thought he was the top British sprinter . |
| 14 | 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 ! ’ |
| 15 | Always thought I was the shy one of us two . |
| 16 | I always thought I was the philandering type , but my mind keeps going back to her . |
| 17 | I always thought he was a lonely little chap . |
| 18 | He had had dealings with Eddie 's family , and as Eddie says : ‘ My father always said you was a smart man . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He always said you were the whole brains of the column . |
| 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 | 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 |
| 23 | He told the hearing in Chelsea , west London , auditors first thought £34,500 was missing but later realised it was a small fortune . |
| 24 | I also realized it was the perfect frame — that I 'd be accused . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I got a postcard of one recently and I honestly thought it was a real woman . ’ |
| 27 | ICAS welcomed the review but also said it was a timely reminder of archaic and unnecessary burdens in the UK tax system and urged an independent examination by a working party of all interested bodies to tackle problems close to home . |
| 28 | He was a non-smoker , a teetotaller and a lover of animals , but what really preoccupied him was an overwhelming and violent anti-Semitism , derived perhaps from his dislike of the kosher method of slaughtering animals . |
| 29 | I often thought it was a pointless exercise , but , as he said , ‘ If you do n't ask , you do n't get ’ , and he hoped that eventually they 'd get so fed up with him that they 'd deliver . |
| 30 | I I 've got a bill to come in from the electrician for his call-out charge he diagnosed that it 's was not an electrical fault and then thought it was an electrical fault by the noise , it was making a fizzing noise but he does n't th he said it 's , it 's the pump the pump is on the way out it needs replacing house is built in nineteen eighty five ! |