Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 2 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |
| 3 | I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age . |
| 4 | When I left there I thought it was the happiest day of my life , but it was n't . |
| 5 | But I was young and Scottish and I thought I was the greatest . |
| 6 | I thought I was the greatest . |
| 7 | I told Diana [ Vreeland ] and she thought it was the chicest thing she ever heard . |
| 8 | She thought he was the handsomest of them all . |
| 9 | She said it was the best one she 'd ever done . |
| 10 | ‘ When we did a signing session at the Rough Trade shop , we thought it was the biggest ball hop ever ! ’ cackles Niall . |
| 11 | ‘ And while we felt we were the best team in England , we were killed by our own success . |
| 12 | When we won it was the biggest race . |
| 13 | Well I suppose th they felt it was the cheapest way of , of , of having them . |
| 14 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 15 | Children would normally go to London when they ran away from home , because they thought it was the best place to go to get a job , and where they could sleep easily . |
| 16 | Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away . |
| 17 | But he insisted it was the best way to banish the bitterness of the recent past . |
| 18 | Like any good manager Donald Wilson chose David Whitaker to story edit Doctor Who because he felt he was the best man for the job . |
| 19 | He said I was the healthiest ghost he 'd ever seen ! |
| 20 | He said it was the best thing since Bethlehem . ’ |
| 21 | He 'd got all the er information about it when he came and he said it was the best type of covering if you 've got dogs or cats . |
| 22 | When the company indicated that it considered it was the fairest situation that could be achieved in the circumstances , the union representatives said that they noted the company 's position . |