Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh day before Carrie 's I mean , sorry , I knew it was the day after or day before . |
| 2 | She thought it was the squirrel again , but then realised it was something moving jerkily in the hollow of a decayed tree below her and close to the beech . |
| 3 | I thought it was the tester yesterday . |
| 4 | Oh I did n't know he had it so early I always thought it was the week before . |
| 5 | If there were absentees from the gathering of Khans and Noyons which waited sycophantically in the antechamber through which they left the palace , Alexei supposed they were the result rather of an excess of celebration than of flight in the face of possible discovery or inquisition . |
| 6 | She supposed it was the sugar all over the table and floor that had made her mother cross . |