Example sentences of "[vb past] me [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 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 3 | What woke me was the land singing . |
| 4 | Then I hear the guy laugh downstairs and what really woke me was the dog . |
| 5 | What amazed me was the number of Black workers who turned up . |
| 6 | What amazed me was the space — long stretches of beautiful beach with just a handful of people on them even on a Bank Holiday . |
| 7 | What amazed me was the way Ray did such a spectacular somersault just to convince little Louis that he really had scored victory . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The auction itself , while the organisers assured me was no more than their normal one , carried quite a few important items of furniture and there was also a wide range of smalls which commanded what I would consider to be better-than-normal prices . |
| 10 | Because at present you 've got what you told me were the horse walks which are the tracks out here with |
| 11 | In my class of infants , a little five-year-old girl was busy drawing what she told me was a ‘ picture of God ’ . |
| 12 | A little crowd was encouraging them while they performed what somebody told me was a tango . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I suppose what you told me was the whole truth ? ’ |
| 15 | I do n't even know whether anything she told me was the truth . |
| 16 | ‘ What really scared me was the thought of forgetting those lines , ’ said Crawford . |
| 17 | As it was , I was lucky to get away with a few bruises if the person who slugged me was the one who knocked off Mahoney . |
| 18 | The crew member who befriended me was an exRN Officer Phil Andrews , MBE , one of nature 's gentlemen . |
| 19 | Another thing that surprised me was the manager 's quotes after the defeat at Spurs . |
| 20 | But what really disgusted me was the sight of other people eating . |
| 21 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |
| 22 | to because we 've got the Legal Aid system , but I mean my son was also a repeated robbed in his car and what shocked me was the , the police they said to me you should n't have a pretty car any way , he had a brand new X R three |
| 23 | ‘ The job he offered me was a sort of general factotum , a personal troubleshooter , but he wanted someone with a financial background . |
| 24 | The most he ever offered me was an aspirin , ’ Mr Takiff said . |
| 25 | ‘ What eventually swayed me was the fact that Hibs were a big club with a greater potential support , although at that point I probably had a better squad of players in Paisley . |
| 26 | ‘ What really intrigued me was the scorch mark on the outside of the door facing the gallery , as well as the damage done to the heavy bedstead . |
| 27 | The name they gave me was the old principessa 's , the prince 's mother , the kind one . |
| 28 | ‘ The most you ever bought me was a lager . ’ |
| 29 | What bugged me was the way they sampled that line ‘ Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ’ from the film Withnail and I. It was a shame , since what I liked was the way the album had its own space and logic . |
| 30 | Another flower that astonished me was the bloom of the Golden Abutilon . |