Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] was [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we all clambered off the bus and entered the school I started to become a bit more relaxed as I realised I was n't the only person there who had butterflies as big as eagles in their stomachs . |
| 2 | But it seemed I was n't the only one with such fancies . |
| 3 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 4 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
| 5 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 6 | By April he had recovered sufficiently to travel to America once more , to see his sisters ; this visit is perhaps most remarkable for the fact that he addressed the largest assembly ever gathered to attend a literary lecture ( he also received what was then the largest fee for such an event , some two thousand dollars ) . |
| 7 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 8 | G. On the western lowlands Chester ( 58 000 people ) is a central place where the Romans and the Normans defended what was once the lowest bridging point over the River Dee and so also the route into northern Wales . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt betrayed , ’ said Quinn , ‘ when I discovered I was n't the first man . |
| 10 | I left her because I discovered she was not the pure country girl I thought . |
| 11 | But then too late they realized there was only the one power point in the garage and they had n't got enough adaptors to take all the amplifiers and instruments . |
| 12 | What interested me was how the editorial approach to these readers compared with the neighbouring ad : ‘ A weak Gordon 's & Tonic ( please do not adjust your magazine ) ’ , it said , wetly . |
| 13 | As a result , Haslam inherited what was then the plastic-film group , which was at an embryonic stage of development . |
| 14 | Andropov produced a list of names with crosses against them , and I understood I was practically the last Presidium member who had not been ‘ sworn in ’ . |
| 15 | And I knew I was n't the only one . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew I was n't the only person in the world you 'd got the courage to shout at , ’ she says . |
| 17 | I knew I was n't the only victim because I had heard complaints from others ; the fruiterer who saw his apples disappear from the box in front of the shop , the grocer who unwillingly supplied him with free biscuits . |
| 18 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 19 | Margaret knew she was n't the easiest person to live with , she knew she had her mad days , but Dorothy tolerated , accepted , got on with her career . |
| 20 | I knew there was only the one slice left , but I 've never been the sort deliberately to starve an animal to death , so in it went . |
| 21 | Symphony because I felt it was not the right tempo . |
| 22 | As far as quality of play went it was probably the worst since I took over . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That bloody bike , ’ she said , although she knew it was n't the same one . |
| 24 | She knew it was not the correct mode of address but she felt a little odd , outside reality , and was afraid she was about to dissolve into tears . |
| 25 | He said , with his back to me , until you went away I thought it was just the usual thing . |
| 26 | I thought it was probably the other one who had rung , on the cadge . ’ |
| 27 | However , he thought it was probably the second language of no fewer than ninety per cent of Tanzanians . |
| 28 | I never re realised we 're doing a module in the eighth year was environment , I always thought it was always the ninth year ? |
| 29 | That is , he thought he was still the amiable , easy-going champion he had been , when in reality he was a harried man who was beginning to learn about defeat and humiliation . |
| 30 | Thaw , 50 , admitted it was probably the huge success of the opera-loving sleuth Morse that clinched the award . |