Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I was myself a prefect , the penny had dropped . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel it particularly strongly because , as a Hungarian Jew , I was myself a potential victim of the Holocaust . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel it particularly strongly because , as a Hungarian Jew , I was myself a potential victim of the Holocaust . |
| 4 | They thought I was something the cat brought in . ’ |
| 5 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
| 6 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 7 | If you were someone the Department needed information from , I could put in an expenses slip for five thousand , and Hilary Todd would sign it . ’ |
| 8 | She was herself a weaver and spinner and taught spinning and embroidery . |
| 9 | She had heard about Donna Frizzell 's frightful taste in literature , and , though she was herself a member of the Society for the Preservation of Morals and knew why the books had been purchased , she saw no reason to save her neighbour any humiliation , and had expressed suitably shocked surprise . |
| 10 | A sexual bud or ovum has started life , he supposes , as a bud from the mother when she was herself a newly fertilized egg in her mother , the grandmother . |
| 11 | The stories of Manjiku she had heard on the island , when she was herself a girl , had not had happy endings : Manjiku continued to raid the inland waters for women , his hunger was not to be appeased , his need to have babies of his own still raged . |
| 12 | She was herself a cripple , constantly in need of the sort of attention her husband had regularly given her in the evenings . |
| 13 | She was herself the daughter of a rabbi , whose father and grandfather before him had upheld the light of Jewish learning in their part of Poland . |
| 14 | Connections quickly came to the fore in the application , however , for Kinnoull pointed out that the wife of the minister of Tippermuir was a lady ‘ for whom the Dowager Lady Findlater has a particular regard ’ , and she was herself the niece of Sir James Grant 's uncle , Sir William Dunbar . |
| 15 | Sh she was it the week , the new year 's weekend ? |
| 16 | But she was none the wiser for what came out of the speakers : a soft sea of hiss , a hint of ultrasonics , and a persistent , repetitive creaking noise . |
| 17 | She 'd let herself go , last night — but she was none the worse for it , was she ? |
| 18 | It was depressing to have to admit to herself that after four days together she was none the wiser , that , if she made the mistake again of leaving her vulnerable heart unguarded , he might once more strike her a casually cruel blow , and this time she might not recover . |
| 19 | She was none the wiser . |
| 20 | Until these larger sets can be made in production quantities , electronics companies will probably push miniature sets as if they were what the consumer wanted all along . |
| 21 | That part of Parma , around Borgo delle Colonne , was apparently well known for its brothels , and I often used to see heavily made-up women in tight skirts and high-heeled shoes decorated with silver stars parading up and down ; I assume now that they were what the Parmigiani used to refer to as putane , whores . |
| 22 | They were themselves a witness to the success of the ecclesiastical promotion of lay education in the faith although , in their case , it stimulated a sectarianism which exploded in the first quarter of the fifteenth century as a threat to both the doctrinal and social establishment of authority . |
| 23 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 24 | While the Labour Government were anxious to preserve an image of political fairness and reasonable salary flexibility in order to attract the technocratic skills that they recognised were essential for success , they were none the less clear that the public corporations should not simply be the old gang operating ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 25 | Some of these claims , spread energetically by certain leading military men , were almost certainly exaggerated , but they were none the less serious . |
| 26 | They were hardly his own yet sprang from his heart as though , in those exalted moments , it were itself a living vessel of the Christmas mystery . |
| 27 | Now who was the state 's interests with other states , was it were you the state 's interests in other states or no , I keep getting you wrong . |
| 28 | It was what an unreliable dog does when stroked by someone who is afraid of it . |
| 29 | I understood that it was what The Wedding Present wanted , but explaining it to the head of the sales force was a problem . |
| 30 | It was what the doctors call a false pregnancy , probably brought on by her husband 's sudden death , feelings of guilt . |