Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malc and I were all part of the same gang when we were 14 , sort of ‘ paired off ’ when we were 15 , and started putting our biology theory into practice at 16 . |
| 2 | If a human observer sets out to interpret the " emotions " of a rat what else can he do except say of himself : " Now if I were that rat , how should I feel ? " |
| 3 | ‘ How I wish that I were that dog ! ’ |
| 4 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 5 | as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’ |
| 6 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 7 | I thought yours were same make . |
| 8 | But outwardly I was all sweetness and patient understanding , continually being congratulated on my competence in the role of ‘ little mother ’ . |
| 9 | Survival instincts took precedence , and I was all thumbs as I disentangled camera , binocular , rucksack and rifle straps from round my neck . |
| 10 | I suppose you could say I was all kinds of a fool to trust him , but I 'm a designer , not an accountant . |
| 11 | They never got here , I was all morning . |
| 12 | First because in Prisoner desire and fantasy seem transformed into nonsublimated social identification ; as he puts it in relation to one group of black students in America , ‘ while I never desired any particular person , I was all desire for the group as a whole . |
| 13 | Everyone always wants to knock a man off the top — I know , I was that man . |
| 14 | I am now sure I was that boy in an earlier life . |
| 15 | I have rarely been angrier than I was that day . |
| 16 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 17 | ‘ The fact is , I was that baby , and I know I was born here twenty years ago — ’ |
| 18 | ‘ When I was that age , I slunk about in an agony of embarrassment in case anybody looked at me . ’ |
| 19 | I took part in the obstacle course which when I was that age I found it difficult . |
| 20 | ‘ You see , Jinkwa , ’ he concluded inevitably , ‘ I was that soldier . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been told I was many things in my life , but too hasty … |
| 22 | In my first few years in the London activist network I was several times courted ( it seems the only appropriate word ) to join currently all-male organizations as a token lesbian but none of them offered , alongside the assumption that this would be a privileged or welcome position , the incentive that Switchboard did : the callers . |
| 23 | I was several times on the phone to John Hayward , who supervised such domestic matters , and I was struck by his almost fierce , perhaps too possessive , loyalty to Eliot . |
| 24 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 25 | I was some way behind , it was misty , and when I got there I could n't see him . |
| 26 | While I was some metres away from it , the ruined door of the tower was flung wide , and the monster emerged . |
| 27 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 28 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 29 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 30 | To hear you talk , anyone would think I was some kind of wanton , a man-stealer . |