Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were the Secretary of State for Social Security , which I am not , my nightmare would be the early morning phone call from the Department 's press office saying that an eviction is taking place that day , that the media and particularly the television cameras will be there and asking whether I would be there and what were the Government 's comments . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I must say I did n't expect the red carpet , but neither did I expect you all to look at me as though I were the devil incarnate ! |
| 3 | If I were the patient I would hope someone would have the common sense not to operate on me . |
| 4 | There was therefore no longer any reason for or point in hesitation ; and I said that if I were the choice that I would respond to the best of my ability … |
| 5 | You might , were you in the celebrity business , react like literary agent Ed Victor : ‘ If I were the agent I would step on some jugulars to come home with $5 million for world-wide rights to the book and the film . ’ |
| 6 | Mind , I suppose if I were the sort of person you obviously think I am I would have known about your predilection for pretty girls — and your low boredom threshold , ’ she said scathingly . |
| 7 | To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime . |
| 8 | ‘ I was the innocent , not he . |
| 9 | After much remonstrating during which I was told very kindly and politely that there was no problem , till I felt like tearing my hair out , I was sent to sit in a corner ( just a woman you see ) and Mr Fleming was ushered off to meet an official , rush off somewhere and come back with a piece of paper which was duly stamped , passport returned , and off we went to meet our contact , who explained in a jocular fashion that I was the problem . |
| 10 | And in fact er one My brother next to n to me I was the middle of them I was the youngest boy . |
| 11 | I am sure that I was the despair of Ron 's coaching life , but still he made no comment . |
| 12 | I had them all myself from the former British monopoly , the Central Electricity Generating Board , when I was the minister responsible for the day-to-day operations involved in privatising the British electricity industry : ‘ the integrity of the system ’ , the need to ensure the adequacy of contra power or ‘ vars ’ , safety considerations , the impossibility of storing electricity — all excellent points in themselves , but each fully capable of being accommodated in a competitive system such as has been invented , at least in embryo , in Britain . |
| 13 | — I remember , & never shall forget , my father 's face as he looked upon me while I lay in the servant 's arms — so calm , and the tears stealing down his face : for I was the child of his old age . |
| 14 | I thought I was the cat 's whiskers . |
| 15 | During my last term at school I was the slave of a corporal in the Welsh Fusiliers . |
| 16 | I was the sister on his corridor . ’ |
| 17 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 18 | And I was the engine of it all . |
| 19 | And I was in the middle of all this , I was the engine of it all . |
| 20 | I was the engine of it all . |
| 21 | I mean , without him in the back I would n't have been able to do it , but I always tell everybody I was the carer . |
| 22 | If I did n't know Karen I should think I was the candidate for diabetes . |
| 23 | One picture I remember : I was the spirit of France , holding a tattered tricolor with the Champs Elysees in flames behind me . |
| 24 | from work as a somebody and at home I was the loo cleaner . |
| 25 | I was the Christian , I gave of myself completely . |
| 26 | Maybe I was the ghost . |
| 27 | No — they were wallpapering , and I was the wall — they were papering over me ! |
| 28 | It er We had to be it was a closed shop , that was , and er I er I was the er I was the secretary for er for our Chairman rather for ou our er local local branch , for the Nottingham area branch of er USDOR you see ? |
| 29 | Now in this little booklet that I 've got about the er er the potted history of the Cosmopolitan Debating Society , it mentions a very brilliant man by the name of W H , now I was very friendly with him because he was th President of the I L P and I was the secretary . |
| 30 | You know that I should be interested , well I was the secretary of Labour Party for a time . |