Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] the [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 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 3 | They still thought he was the top British sprinter . |
| 4 | 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 ! ’ |
| 5 | Always thought I was the shy one of us two . |
| 6 | I always thought I was the philandering type , but my mind keeps going back to her . |
| 7 | ‘ He always said you were the whole brains of the column . |
| 8 | Well , they always said it was the only way to go and he believed it . |
| 9 | I also realized it was the perfect frame — that I 'd be accused . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They specifically denied they were the Arab Revolutionary Cells Group , originally believed to be holding Mr Reed . |