Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraging them were the new links between British and American film companies that grew out of the quota legislation . |
| 2 | Seeing birds close up and handling them was a vital part of my education . |
| 3 | Catching them was a simple procedure of setting up a wire-mesh peat basket , held up at one side by a stick , with a string attached which led in through the window . |
| 4 | When she realized I was a good thief and knew how to use a knife , she got to like me . |
| 5 | But I did n't think I was a pretty child at all . |
| 6 | To hear her talk you 'd think I was the hired help . |
| 7 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I went into analysis because I realised I was a dangerous character — I mean this suicidal , self-destructive instinct I had . |
| 10 | You 'd only let me make love to you that night because you realised I was a better bet than Peter . |
| 11 | Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia . |
| 12 | Old Kaspar replies : ’ Why that I can not tell , ' said he , But' t was a famous victory . ' ’ |
| 13 | Getting to know me was a bad idea . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Did n't you know I was a proper professional teacher ? |
| 15 | By the time Don Black , lyricist of Tell Me On A Sunday and Aspects of Love , and one of the funniest men in the Western Bloc , came in to the studio to be interviewed I was a frothing heap . |
| 16 | Others say I was a good judge by staying home . |
| 17 | Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 20 | did n't know you was a high brow |
| 21 | did n't know you were a high brow |
| 22 | ‘ But I did n't know you were a big dreamer then . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't know you were a secret football fan . |
| 24 | I do know she was the subtlest of nags . |
| 25 | Rachel was usually the last to arrive , but tonight Annie found she was the last . |
| 26 | They say she was no more than a skeleton . |
| 27 | He say she was a fantasic person , with time for everyone . |
| 28 | She reached over and turned out the light , sick with disappointment to find she was no wiser about her identity than the night before . |
| 29 | Amongst your past lives you were a High Priestess of Merlin , and you have the power of all magicians . |
| 30 | No , I mean he did n't know we were an elected body , did he ? |