Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] was [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean that was always a milkman used , there used to be er James was one of the milkmen down Palfrey , he used to come . |
| 2 | I mean that was really a breakthrough . |
| 3 | I kept thinking that perhaps you were still in Australia , but I expect that was just an excuse ! |
| 4 | I was surprised when I found out about the interim order , but I assumed that was only a convenience measure , because you 're resident in Scotland and I 'm not . |
| 5 | But all the time — from the moment I began to speak , in fact — I knew this was partly a lie : I enjoyed the intrigue of politics , the excitement , the feeling , if only in a limited way , of power . |
| 6 | I thought that was rather a lot . |
| 7 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 8 | Denise said she would n't buy erm the Nescafe because of the baby milk you see , so I thought that was slightly a different topic t er to the one we were asking about fair trade . |
| 9 | Please continue to send papers for any relevant meetings and an attempt will be made to respond to appropriate issues , if there is any specific topic you wish to be considered , please do not hesitate to get in touch so I thought that was quite a nice letter seeing as I practically read them all |
| 10 | Yeah I was just looking at erm I thought that was quite a bit of resolute defending there from er Whitlow . |
| 11 | Anyway , I thought this was strictly a business trip , ’ she added , a glint of mischief in her eyes . |
| 12 | I thought this was rather a shrewd point . |
| 13 | I thought this was quite a plus actually , because we were able to get away with murder during the beginning , in some ways doing things that on paper looked very expensive but in reality balanced out over the year we were scheduled . ’ |
| 14 | We had run one in an earlier year , erm , I think that was slightly a different type , but that , er , the idea was the same . |
| 15 | He asked me to resign , but I think that was just an excuse to get rid of me because he 's jealous of my work ! ’ she finished baldly , quite unable to dress up the truth . |
| 16 | Yet she sensed that was only a beginning . |
| 17 | You , you feel that was definitely a , a wrong move |
| 18 | She would rather talk to Pilade though she knew this was only a sophisticated way of talking to herself . |
| 19 | Hungry for political office , they knew this was only an inoculation . |
| 20 | He thought this was mainly a matter of size , but the preference holds in other places ( e.g. The Bristol Channel ) where the two barnacles are more evenly matched in this respect . |
| 21 | Peter Davies , the 1988 winner of the silver arrow , was using a composite bow in order to have a better chance of winning , but next year he intended to shoot longbow for he thought this was really a longbow tournament . |
| 22 | He could get a job and earn some money to buy some clothes — but he knew this was just a dream . |