Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Today I was the best swot in the whole school , mum ! ’ answered Jane . |
| 2 | ‘ I was the right person in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 3 | Her father John said : ‘ Carol looked beautiful at the wedding and I was the proudest dad in the world . |
| 4 | I was the only patient in there . |
| 5 | ‘ I was the only kid in sandals in the whole neighbourhood . ’ |
| 6 | When he finished reading , he began to sing his favourite song , If You Were The Only Girl In The World And I Was The Only Boy , except he turned the words round — for a laugh , he always said — and sang : ‘ If I was the only girl in the world and you were the only boy … . ’ |
| 7 | It was sad for me , I thought , that I was the only girl in the world sufficiently stupid to permit herself to be sacrificed to his vanity . |
| 8 | No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so |
| 9 | There was a moment 's silence as he prowled round the room , his misery betrayed by every contained movement of his lean male body , before he added wryly , ‘ At the time I was the only man in Copenhagen who did n't know it . ’ |
| 10 | It was pretty wonderful to be sitting there watching it all and knowing that I was the only person in the whole school who realised exactly what was going on inside the Trunchbull 's pants . |
| 11 | 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 ! ’ |
| 12 | She looked at me unsmiling and I opened my mouth to protest that I was the last person in the world to take such a thing for granted , that I was the only person in the world who held a low opinion of sexual experience . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had thought that I was the only murderer in the family , but old Eric beat me to it , killing his mum before he had even drawn breath . |
| 15 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 16 | I was the first person in a nun 's care to get pregnant I 'm famous ! |
| 17 | ‘ I bought them in Italy ( I was the first person in England to wear tinted glasses — Prince Philip had them after me ) and the little girl in the shop used to say , ‘ Dad , Dad , that 's Roy Orbison ’ . ’ |
| 18 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 19 | For many years I was conscious that I was the first woman in my very large extended family to do this . |
| 20 | If I gave an interview I was the greatest guy in the world but if I said ‘ no , I want some time to myself ’ , they would n't give me the time of day . |
| 21 | She looked at me unsmiling and I opened my mouth to protest that I was the last person in the world to take such a thing for granted , that I was the only person in the world who held a low opinion of sexual experience . |
| 22 | I moved to clear it as I was the last defender in front of goal . |
| 23 | The only thing that concerned me was that , with Stephen Pears injured , I was the oldest player in the team . |
| 24 | I was the best-known face in East Anglia , but I was having a terrible time . |
| 25 | He always wore a gown , he beat boys whenever he thought it necessary , he did not need to assert that his was the best school in Wales , if not Britain . |
| 26 | His was the only character in the film you did n't want to see garrotted . |
| 27 | But — oh , Ellie , there was such a to-do last time , Phena carrying on as though she were the only person in the world who had been lied to , and I know it was hard for her , and Feargal would have given her all this without a blink , but she wanted to play the martyr , and now makes him pay for it in oh , so many little ways . ’ |
| 28 | If she were the last lassie in the world I couldny |
| 29 | Or could it be that you were the first rebel in the household and that Suzie 's only following your example ? ’ |
| 30 | When he finished reading , he began to sing his favourite song , If You Were The Only Girl In The World And I Was The Only Boy , except he turned the words round — for a laugh , he always said — and sang : ‘ If I was the only girl in the world and you were the only boy … . ’ |