Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders . |
| 6 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 9 | Rachel was usually the last to arrive , but tonight Annie found she was the last . |
| 10 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 15 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 16 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 17 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 18 | When she awoke , rubbing at a rather stiff neck , feeling hungry , but better than she expected , she found it was the middle of the morning and sunshine was streaming into every corner of the cottage . |
| 19 | When a mis-fire occurred it was the practice to clear out the hole down to the powder , insert the pricker , and again stem the hole . |
| 20 | ‘ Her qualifications were adequate but what hooked us was the photo she included . |
| 21 | What woke me was the land singing . |
| 22 | Then I hear the guy laugh downstairs and what really woke me was the dog . |
| 23 | What amazed me was the number of Black workers who turned up . |
| 24 | What amazed me was the space — long stretches of beautiful beach with just a handful of people on them even on a Bank Holiday . |
| 25 | What amazed me was the way Ray did such a spectacular somersault just to convince little Louis that he really had scored victory . |
| 26 | What really amazed me was the way the hawk seemed to know out of which hole the rabbit was going to pop even before its ears appeared . |
| 27 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 28 | I suppose what you told me was the whole truth ? ’ |
| 29 | I do n't even know whether anything she told me was the truth . |
| 30 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |