Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she realized I was a good thief and knew how to use a knife , she got to like me . |
| 2 | ‘ I went into analysis because I realised I was a dangerous character — I mean this suicidal , self-destructive instinct I had . |
| 3 | You 'd only let me make love to you that night because you realised I was a better bet than Peter . |
| 4 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 5 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 6 | But she found it was a different school with different faces . |
| 7 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought — believed it was a passing affair … ’ |
| 9 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |
| 10 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 11 | The new dealer assumed it was a genuine stock . |
| 12 | Possibly someone assumed it was a concentrated form of oxygen , and therefore invigorating . |
| 13 | THE wayward Marquess of Blandford last night claimed it was a lost love which led him into drug addiction . |
| 14 | Men claimed he was a shameless womaniser , but to women he was perfect , as if Wotan had dropped a bucket of pure sex from Valhalla and it had come to rest inside the muscled , blond Adonis . |
| 15 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 16 | But though her mouth opened it was a silent entreaty and all she seemed able to do was cling to the top of her cage near where branches of trees hung and vainly try to say words that would not come . |
| 17 | She discovered she was a split second too late in making a hurried scramble to get off the bed , because , in the next instant , Naylor was there with her , pinning her down with his body . |
| 18 | Sometimes the terrible debt he owed her was a churning sickness in his stomach that often rushed into his throat to warn him that one day it might choke him to death . |
| 19 | ‘ Nearly fifty years later Mark Reeder , who is with us today , a helicopter pilot with Bristows , spotted the crash site , landed , too some photographs , and with the help of the Public Records Office , discovered it was a 627 Mossie . |
| 20 | A WANDERING busker with a record of 50 convictions for being drunk and disorderly was given a conditional discharge by Scarborough Magistrates yesterday after they heard he was a harmless nuisance . |
| 21 | ‘ We heard it was a good school , ’ said Clarissa , acidly . |
| 22 | She decided he was a good deal more accomplished than the people he served . |
| 23 | Masklin decided it was a diplomatic time to wake up . |
| 24 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 25 | I decided it was a good time to ask him the final questions about Stapleton and the hound . |
| 26 | And I decided it was a successful briefing , you know . |
| 27 | You put a bit of pressure on its mandible , or lower beak , and if it broke it was a young bird . |
| 28 | I changed my first name because I actually felt I was a new person . |
| 29 | When my mother died I was a military attache at one of our embassies in eastern Europe . |
| 30 | I thought I was a sixty-five-year-old woman with grey hair and a crepe neck . ’ |