Example sentences of "[vb past] this [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could get a job and earn some money to buy some clothes — but he knew this was just a dream . |
| 2 | But all the time — from the moment I began to speak , in fact — I knew this was partly a lie : I enjoyed the intrigue of politics , the excitement , the feeling , if only in a limited way , of power . |
| 3 | Hungry for political office , they knew this was only an inoculation . |
| 4 | Before I read the book , I thought this was exactly the opposite of the truth . |
| 5 | Anyway , I thought this was strictly a business trip , ’ she added , a glint of mischief in her eyes . |
| 6 | Peter Davies , the 1988 winner of the silver arrow , was using a composite bow in order to have a better chance of winning , but next year he intended to shoot longbow for he thought this was really a longbow tournament . |
| 7 | I thought this was quite a plus actually , because we were able to get away with murder during the beginning , in some ways doing things that on paper looked very expensive but in reality balanced out over the year we were scheduled . ’ |
| 8 | He thought this was mainly a matter of size , but the preference holds in other places ( e.g. The Bristol Channel ) where the two barnacles are more evenly matched in this respect . |
| 9 | One veteran observer of the New York museum scene summarised the insular society 's predicament : ‘ During the 60s , 70s and 80s when all other institutions realised that there was no way that they could build up an endowment without catering to the masses and without appealing to the federal government , museums went with cap in hand ; they saw this was now the game . |