Example sentences of "[that] i [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was selected as company runner , which meant that I was also a kind of servant , I forget the word … ’ |
| 2 | More recently the revelation that I was also a Punch columnist has provoked an equally predictable and ill-informed reaction . |
| 3 | That I was just a father , a husband — I 'd somehow ceased to exist as a person in my own right . ’ |
| 4 | What last thin pretence had remained that I was merely a guest lay discarded . |
| 5 | On leaving GLF in 1972 I did n't realize that I was now a separatist ; those of us who were did n't use the word . |
| 6 | From being a child to being an adult this apparent choice changed to the overriding , deep-rooted belief that I was actually a boy , that nature had somehow made a mistake biologically but that I was really a boy . |
| 7 | Recently , I was very surprised to find that I was willing to go to bed with a guy and have intercourse , but then discovered that I was really a bit repelled by the idea of having him kiss me . |
| 8 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 9 | From being a child to being an adult this apparent choice changed to the overriding , deep-rooted belief that I was actually a boy , that nature had somehow made a mistake biologically but that I was really a boy . |