Example sentences of "[vb past] i was [art] [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 | But it was of no avail , and as the time passed I was the unwilling witness of the gradual transition from heartiness to silence , then to something like panic . |
| 3 | ‘ I went into analysis because I realised I was a dangerous character — I mean this suicidal , self-destructive instinct I had . |
| 4 | You 'd only let me make love to you that night because you realised I was a better bet than Peter . |
| 5 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 6 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 7 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 8 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 9 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 10 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 11 | I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy . |
| 12 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 13 | I changed my first name because I actually felt I was a new person . |
| 14 | She felt I was an undesirable influence , you coming from Methodist stock . ’ |
| 15 | When my mother died I was a military attache at one of our embassies in eastern Europe . |
| 16 | I could n't see myself doing it so as I said I was n't going to make a fool of myself by putting my name as being nominated forward er as a candidate etcetera lose interest that 's the first thing that happened because they knew I was an outspoken bloke . |
| 17 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 18 | I thought I was a sixty-five-year-old woman with grey hair and a crepe neck . ’ |
| 19 | I thought I was a serious fan , that was until I met the fans at this game . |
| 20 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 21 | My mum never warned me about getting pregnant because she thought I was a good girl . |
| 22 | In fact , at the time , I thought I was a real martyr . |
| 23 | ‘ The other kids at school thought I was a real wimp but they accepted me because I was always cheeky to the teachers . |
| 24 | You could interrogate me , at least , and if you thought I was a double agent you could put a bullet in my head . |
| 25 | I thought I was a free agent ? ’ she spat at him . |
| 26 | Perhaps they thought I was a wild man myself , in my strange home-made clothes of animals ' skins , and with my long hair and beard . |
| 27 | At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it . |
| 28 | How comforting to read Gill Rowley 's Pet-Hate List ( YWTU , October GH ) about the check-out trolley pushers — I always thought I was the only person in the world who wanted to reverse , screaming hysterically , ‘ Get back ! ’ |
| 29 | I thought I was the bad girl , but everybody else was doing exactly the same . |
| 30 | I always thought I was the philandering type , but my mind keeps going back to her . |