Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pers pn] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
| 2 | When you spoke of this eagle I knew whom you meant for she was the last of our kind who carried wisdom in her wings . |
| 3 | She asked whether it was the same Capron who was in the photograph she had borrowed from Tatyana Nowak , and who Marek had been to see . |
| 4 | Mr Clarke 's solicitor said as it was the first time the new offence had been tried under the 1991 Road Traffic Act they would be considering an appeal against sentence . |
| 5 | I wondered if it was the usual supper for prisoners . |
| 6 | He wondered if it was the same rope but did not like to ask his mother . |
| 7 | Defries wondered whether it was the early defrost . |
| 8 | She said that as though she wondered whether it was the correct thing to say . |