Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some soldier saw me , realized I was n't a real major and I suppose he thought I was impersonating an officer or whatever . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 4 | But it seemed I was n't the only one with such fancies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 8 | She assumed it was only a temporary lapse in character while he nursed his head but she still determined to keep the conversation going for as long as possible . |
| 9 | They were still close enough to shore for him to return her to the police if she admitted she was not an experienced ocean sailor . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As it happened it was n't a bad lie , so instead of 1-iron , 2-iron to the green , he 's now playing driver , 5-iron . |
| 12 | In 1928 Green and Mellanby noted that though vitamin A was then known as the growth promoting vitamin , evidence from animal studies showed it was also an anti-infective vitamin . |
| 13 | ‘ I felt betrayed , ’ said Quinn , ‘ when I discovered I was n't the first man . |
| 14 | I left her because I discovered she was not the pure country girl I thought . |
| 15 | She picked up her things again and made for the dim daylight outside , rather relieved it was n't a bright day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The College did a survey and decided it was not a good risk . |
| 18 | I decided it was n't a good place to be and left straightaway . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | And I knew I was n't the only one . |
| 21 | ‘ I knew I was n't the only person in the world you 'd got the courage to shout at , ’ she says . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Yes , I suppose you 're right , he probably thought I was just a harmless English eccentric ! |
| 25 | I told the director to put that in his film but , of course , he thought I was just a mad old teapot . ’ |
| 26 | I thought he was rather a funny man and he thought I was rather a funny girl . |
| 27 | I thought I was quite a reasonable driver , I got as far as running at the front in World Sports Car Championships erm finished on the podium several times in International Formula Three erm |
| 28 | Rich and famous , Miranda knew she was also an interesting companion . |
| 29 | As soon as I knew she was n't a hundred per cent , I just did n't want to know her … |
| 30 | 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 . |