Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 2 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
| 3 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 4 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 5 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 6 | I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy . |
| 7 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 8 | From the foam on it I guessed it was the first out of the keg that evening . |
| 9 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
| 10 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
| 12 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 13 | I knew it was the one Henry wanted back . |
| 14 | But I knew it would work , I knew it was the perfect register for it ; it was just a question of the right tonality and the right feeling . |
| 15 | " I knew it was the same for you ; that made it worse . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew it was the same family , ’ he admitted . |
| 17 | I had seen Come Blow Your Horn and kept my eye on what he was up to , and I knew he was the right person for that part . |
| 18 | The one I saw it was the same plain . |
| 19 | He 's always sending her flowers — and last time I looked she was the only one on his list who got an ‘ A ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I thought she was the cleaning woman first of all . ’ |
| 22 | I thought she was the tasty one as well . |
| 23 | I thought it was the other church , the one near the market , and I waited there till a quarter to twelve , and then I realized my mistake . |
| 24 | It 's lovely I thought it was the real thing . |
| 25 | Well I thought it was the forced |
| 26 | think it was this I thought it was the small |
| 27 | I wanted to run it because I thought it was the only way we stood a chance . |
| 28 | At first I thought it was the naval guns out in the Channel . |
| 29 | I thought it was the greatest adventure of our age . |
| 30 | I thought it was the front doorbell . |