Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] 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 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt betrayed , ’ said Quinn , ‘ when I discovered I was n't the first man . |
| 8 | I left her because I discovered she was not the pure country girl I thought . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | And I knew I was n't the only one . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew I was n't the only person in the world you 'd got the courage to shout at , ’ she says . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Symphony because I felt it was not the right tempo . |
| 17 | As far as quality of play went it was probably the worst since I took over . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That bloody bike , ’ she said , although she knew it was n't the same one . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He said , with his back to me , until you went away I thought it was just the usual thing . |
| 21 | I thought it was probably the other one who had rung , on the cadge . ’ |
| 22 | However , he thought it was probably the second language of no fewer than ninety per cent of Tanzanians . |
| 23 | I never re realised we 're doing a module in the eighth year was environment , I always thought it was always the ninth year ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Thaw , 50 , admitted it was probably the huge success of the opera-loving sleuth Morse that clinched the award . |
| 26 | He gave her a wide toothy grin , and immediately realized it was exactly the wrong approach . |
| 27 | And I remembered it was here the dumb woman lived . |
| 28 | He spoke of a well-off socialist he knew at college ; what irked him was not the socialist views , some of which he agreed with , but the fact that here was a wealthy socialist telling working people what they should think . |
| 29 | So he simply made a convincing artificial one to hide his miniaturized booty , and the Vadinamia 's missed it — because when he left he was just the same as when he arrived . |
| 30 | Matt tried plate-smashing but they said it was n't the local custom and threw us out ! |