Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 2 | As we have seen the Prague School were also interested in the content of texts as well as their language , but what concerned them was the structure of the content as a self-contained system of signs to be separated out into its different levels , not the overall impression that it conveys . |
| 3 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 4 | It was a position of strange intimacy ; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world . |
| 5 | When she realized I was a good thief and knew how to use a knife , she got to like me . |
| 6 | But it was of no avail , and as the time passed I was the unwilling witness of the gradual transition from heartiness to silence , then to something like panic . |
| 7 | She then realised I was no fool . |
| 8 | ‘ I went into analysis because I realised I was a dangerous character — I mean this suicidal , self-destructive instinct I had . |
| 9 | ‘ I got out of breath drying myself after a bath and I realised I was a bit overweight , ’ said Mervin , who now tips the scales at just over eight stones ! |
| 10 | You 'd only let me make love to you that night because you realised I was a better bet than Peter . |
| 11 | He made doubly sure I realised I was an outcast in a heavy-handed way — and he could n't get rid of me fast enough . |
| 12 | Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia . |
| 13 | Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders . |
| 14 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 15 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 16 | When he found I was a stranger , he explained that the houses were numbered at random ‘ in the old-fashioned way ’ . |
| 17 | First as scullery maid , then — when he found I was a vicar 's daughter — Tom put me upstairs . |
| 18 | However I found I was a lot more satisfied when everything slipped into place . |
| 19 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 20 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 21 | It did n't stop her lashing out at him with her teeth and back legs as he unsaddled her , but he felt he was making progress and , the next day , stick and balling her he found she was a natural . |
| 22 | Rachel was usually the last to arrive , but tonight Annie found she was the last . |
| 23 | Which meant that er you could try and get away if you liked but you as soon as you mentioned you were a baker and they looked at your age you were . |
| 24 | She bought herself a ring and pretended she was a widow . ’ |
| 25 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 26 | One of these who visited him was the Comte Alexandre de Marenches , the conservative head of the French secret service , who had known and admired the Shah for years . |
| 27 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 28 | The job I found him was an undemanding clerical one . |
| 29 | ‘ But ye promised it was the last , ’ Winnie said , the drunken Rab ; and she could have pulled her hair and needed a pee but was frightened to leave Rab alone . |
| 30 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |