Example sentences of "i [pron] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me you were still a virgin , Caroline ? ’ |
| 2 | To me she was just a brain , a scientific machine in a bedworthy body . |
| 3 | Clad in nothing but black and sipping on her jar of Guinness , Debbie Smith , pint-sized guitarist with indie sensations Curve , is attempting to convince me she was never a goth . |
| 4 | I arranged for Jaggers to be his lawyer , but Jaggers warned me there was almost no hope of saving his life . |
| 5 | Said Harvey , at No. 22 with House Of Love : ‘ The doc told me it was just a food allergy . ’ |
| 6 | To me it was both an ending and a beginning . |
| 7 | The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance . |