Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I burst into tears because I was sure Mum had pawned it or sold it . |
| 2 | I whispered to Catherine that I was sure Heathcliff had heard some of what she said . |
| 3 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , I was Chief Secretary for two years and Chancellor for one year . |
| 4 | I was chief haole , a direct descendant of Captain Cook . |
| 5 | I was nervous standing there in front of the crowd . |
| 6 | I do n't know where they got my name , or why they thought I was suitable material for their article . ’ |
| 7 | One day there were about a dozen of us there , including Dickie and myself ; I was Prime Minister at the time . |
| 8 | When I was young rugby was the love of my life , but these days I just manage a game of squash now and then . |
| 9 | When I was political editor of the Daily Mirror , Maxwell took a shine to this hat and asked me to get him one identical to it . |
| 10 | Shortly after John was born I was night-flying overhead , gaining astro-navigational experience in a battered Avro Anson . |
| 11 | I did n't realize I was multi-racial side of it . |
| 12 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 13 | ‘ I always felt partial ownership of the business throughout the 16 years I was managing director , ’ he says . |
| 14 | When I did Beyond The Fringe , I was five foot two and the rest of them were all six foot , and a lot of my comedy came out of me being small . |
| 15 | And she 's working very hard I mean , wh yesterday she was here at six o'clock , so I was long home and Wendy rang from here and she was still here . |
| 16 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 17 | I used to be eleven stone , when I was eighteen , nineteen I was eleven stone Hayle . |
| 18 | Editor , — A Esmail and S Everington 's short report reminded me of a situation when I was executive dean of the medical school of the University of Manchester in 1970 . |
| 19 | And er , I first started feeling I was overweight when I fourteen and I was , I was twelve stone and I went to the doctor and got black capsules to take which had me as high as a kite for a long time ! |
| 20 | It was the most frightening moment of my life and I was icy calm . |
| 21 | I was best man . |
| 22 | A year or two later I was best man at the Braden-Kelly wedding which was performed by Bernie 's father , the Rev. Dr. E.D. Braden at the Kerrisdale United Church of which he was minister . |
| 23 | And this was not only Walsall Co-op , it was the Co-ops as far as I can remember , because er er you know I would n't take that for gospel could I 'm not not sure because I was only child . |
| 24 | I was force-marched back to the retiring chamber , Benjamin and the cardinal trooping behind us . |
| 25 | But outwardly I was all sweetness and patient understanding , continually being congratulated on my competence in the role of ‘ little mother ’ . |
| 26 | They never got here , I was all morning . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She says that I , I , Jackie I was so , sure I was one second away from |
| 29 | My father died when I was one week old , so I was the Queen of Scots when I was a baby . |
| 30 | I found it impossible to make relationships , I was one hell of a mess . |