Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
| 2 | His about-face once in office pleased economists , but robbed him of his mandate : the voters no longer believed he was the man they had elected . |
| 3 | With the dreams of 1945 's Labour victory long gone , and the pretensions of the Conservatives painfully exposed it was the hour for the group of young meritocrats who had done well out of the peace , the Angry Young Men . |
| 4 | With a career as an actress already established it was the success of Lynda La Plante 's 12 part series for Euston Films , WIDOWS , ( 1982 ) , which enabled her to concentrate full time on writing . |
| 5 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |
| 6 | Goodman incorrectly thought he was the man to go off but Sunderland fans were soon relieved when he stayed on the pitch . |
| 7 | What finally undermined him was the arrest , in April 1849 , of a group of St Petersburg intellectuals associated with Mikhail Petrashevskii . |
| 8 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 9 | Just said he was the brother of one of the French officers killed in the brawl in the Leopoldstadt . ’ |
| 10 | A GROUP of Llandudno Junction residents yesterday claimed they were the ‘ forgotten people ’ as they struggled to clean up their homes . |
| 11 | Fred said , ‘ The only other time he ever ordered it was the night you rang us up in Leeds to say you 'd got the house and we could move in by the week we were spliced . ’ |
| 12 | They still thought he was the top British sprinter . |
| 13 | Always thought I was the shy one of us two . |
| 14 | How comforting to read Gill Rowley 's Pet-Hate List ( YWTU , October GH ) about the check-out trolley pushers — I always thought I was the only person in the world who wanted to reverse , screaming hysterically , ‘ Get back ! ’ |
| 15 | I always thought I was the philandering type , but my mind keeps going back to her . |
| 16 | You know how I do , I could n't remember that I 'd actually started the the Easter term doing the erm choices etcetera , I always thought it was the later half of that term , the latter half of that term . |
| 17 | And as they run in er and I always thought it was the best of the show . |
| 18 | Oh I did n't know he had it so early I always thought it was the week before . |
| 19 | I always thought it was the income tax but no . |
| 20 | In retrospect , the greatest disservice Charles Howard ever did me was the way he had somehow made it impossible for me to trust this man . |
| 21 | ‘ He always said you were the whole brains of the column . |
| 22 | Well , they always said it was the only way to go and he believed it . |
| 23 | A GP once said it was the nearest he ever got to brain surgery . |
| 24 | The gangly singer — who later admitted he was the worse the wear for drink — ineptly mimicked Kylie and her dancers for two embarrassing minutes . |
| 25 | I also realized it was the perfect frame — that I 'd be accused . ’ |
| 26 | In Canada the British not only deluded themselves that they had defeated the axiom ; they also imagined it was the federal ingredient that had enabled them to do the trick . |
| 27 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 28 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 29 | He probably thought it was the gale that blasted his door open , but for the next hour he was busy dispensing more whisky than he would normally expect to sell in a week . |
| 30 | Office manager Heather rang the company 's technical services department in Cambridgeshire where computer analyst Chris picked up the phone and at once both knew it was the start of something special . |