Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so he said I said I do n't have to tell you where I were last night David , I were out , so I said even if I were in it 's none of your concern I said what I do in my private time is up to me , he said well why was n't you there ? |
| 2 | You are treating me as if I were another Rosette Fournier . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 4 | I used to be eleven stone , when I was eighteen , nineteen I was eleven stone Hayle . |
| 5 | Giggs is constantly compared to Best himself , but the former United hero said : ‘ One day they might even say I was another Ryan Giggs ! |
| 6 | I 'd sit up in my room bashing out the blues like I was Blind Lemon Matlock . |
| 7 | I was afraid Mr Edgar would find Heathcliff with Catherine . |
| 8 | Two pork pies and a can of Coke each but not the apples which were imported Granny Smiths and bruised , and anyway they had strawberries . |
| 9 | He came out firmly for caution and against the Turkish adventure which was exciting Lloyd George , Churchill , Birkenhead and most of the other ardent Coalitionists . |
| 10 | Even more remarkable , quite a few of you were certain Mike Channon did play . |
| 11 | She was eight years Lewis 's senior , and a woman of high intellectual abilities . |
| 12 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 13 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 14 | Muggeridge and his soppy wife were in there for ages on their way through she was ear-bashing Mrs Crumwallis . ’ |
| 15 | She was afraid Major Harper would be angry but he only smiled , blue eyes twinkling . |
| 16 | When she was plain Mrs Thatcher the former Prime Minister was a champion of free enterprise … in education as much as anything else . |
| 17 | She was glad Miss Mulliver was here . |
| 18 | Now , just one year later , she was 44455 Wren McKeown , V. T. ’ a steward who would spend the remainder of the war cleaning and polishing whatever the Navy told her to clean and polish . |
| 19 | Franklin , who was 18 years Gould 's senior , had established ‘ for the better class of colonists ’ a scientific society , the first of its kind in the colonies ( and later to become the Royal Society of Hobart Town ) and welcomed the ornithologist 's arrival with great enthusiasm . |
| 20 | But who was that Johnny Logan . |
| 21 | who was that Mr Death is alright , its not brilliant |
| 22 | Daniel looked at Grace , who was busy helping Mrs Dawson . |
| 23 | She would ask why Eleanor Fuller 's visit had so upset her , who was this Freddie Nash she had mentioned on leaving ? |
| 24 | Who was this Eva Burrows who was being appointed over their heads ? |
| 25 | ‘ Until we all got the news yesterday , we were all Den O'Neil 's children . |
| 26 | WE were amazed John Major put off his meeting with Jacques Delors just to announce the formal separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales . |
| 27 | We were happy helping Mrs Taylor tidy up . |
| 28 | At the meeting of 12 January 1791 there were present Granville Penn ( chairman ) , Sir William Fordyce , Rev T. Burgess , Vial and Huntingford . |
| 29 | There were two Abu Khadra Streets in Jaffa and there still is an Abu Khadra Mosque in Gaza . |
| 30 | A degree of bewilderment is perhaps to be expected , after all : in 1805 , for instance , there were two Charles Titfords buried at Worship Street — the one , son of Richard and Mary Ann , the other , son of Charles William and … well , ‘ Mary ’ would be a forgivable error ? |