Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malc and I were all part of the same gang when we were 14 , sort of ‘ paired off ’ when we were 15 , and started putting our biology theory into practice at 16 . |
| 2 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 3 | as if I were some Arab with five gold watches up his arm . ’ |
| 4 | I suppose you could say I was all kinds of a fool to trust him , but I 'm a designer , not an accountant . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I am now sure I was that boy in an earlier life . |
| 7 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been told I was many things in my life , but too hasty … |
| 9 | I was several times on the phone to John Hayward , who supervised such domestic matters , and I was struck by his almost fierce , perhaps too possessive , loyalty to Eliot . |
| 10 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 11 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 12 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 13 | To hear you talk , anyone would think I was some kind of wanton , a man-stealer . |
| 14 | About how I was some kind of prophet as far as he was concerned and he was desperate to have me Confirmed . |
| 15 | Richard and I thought you had settled so nicely ’ — as if I was some sort of jelly — and then , ‘ Well , if you really want to , I suppose it would be nice for you to earn a little pin money . ’ |
| 16 | I suppose he thought I was another weirdo like him that always sit on benches talking to themselves . |
| 17 | Boxing was the only sport I was any good at , but I often wondered , sitting with gloves on waiting for the fight before mine to end , why on earth I did it . |
| 18 | ‘ I never said I was any good at it , ’ I offered . |
| 19 | Let's say that erm I was these contracts within the first ten days . |
| 20 | I was half way up the road when I saw the fire engine come . |
| 21 | the dining chairs , I 've had everything out at least I have n't cleaned the windows but , I was half way through , well I was almost finished , I 'd just just done the stairs though and Bernie came ! |
| 22 | It was as if Marc himself were some sort of electrical power source . |
| 23 | Even the ruined library still contained many texts which were witnesses to a local tradition of artistic skill , showing a consuming interest in miraculous happenings and that curious mixture of vernacular and Latin literacy which were all characteristic of late Anglo-Saxon culture . |
| 24 | The curving pond , flanked with stunning peonies which were another legacy of the garden and thrive in London 's clay-based soil , is an experiment , says Patricia , that she intends to improve on this summer . |
| 25 | He pointed to the plate on which were some slices of cold streaky bacon . |
| 26 | I used to roam all just round the country , round this area , which was all fields at that time and when you got at top , top of you were more or less in the country . |
| 27 | Another specific usage of private stations was that of Railway Staff halts which enabled staff to reach a place of work which was some distance from a public stopping place . |
| 28 | Which was another part of Vivienne 's ‘ One Of Us ’ schtick . |
| 29 | In 1990 the hugely effective volunteer branched and guilds workforce was directly responsible for raising over £10m for the first time , not including the credit for attracting a very large proportion of the legacy income — which was another record in 1900 at some £31m . |
| 30 | It was a maroon colour , now much mottled , which was another point of resemblance between them . |