Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Seeing birds close up and handling them was a vital part of my education .
2 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 .
3 When she realized I was a good thief and knew how to use a knife , she got to like me .
4 But I did n't think I was a pretty child at all .
5 To hear her talk you 'd think I was the hired help .
6 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 . ’
7 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 .
8 ‘ I went into analysis because I realised I was a dangerous character — I mean this suicidal , self-destructive instinct I had .
9 You 'd only let me make love to you that night because you realised I was a better bet than Peter .
10 Old Kaspar replies : ’ Why that I can not tell , ' said he , But' t was a famous victory . ' ’
11 Getting to know me was a bad idea . ’
12 ‘ Did n't you know I was a proper professional teacher ?
13 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 .
14 Others say I was a good judge by staying home .
15 Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders .
16 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 .
17 When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field .
18 did n't know you was a high brow
19 I do know she was the subtlest of nags .
20 Rachel was usually the last to arrive , but tonight Annie found she was the last .
21 They say she was no more than a skeleton .
22 He say she was a fantasic person , with time for everyone .
23 She reached over and turned out the light , sick with disappointment to find she was no wiser about her identity than the night before .
24 The job I found him was an undemanding clerical one .
25 I did n't know it was a carding mill .
26 I do not know if it was the first time since his appointment as executive chef at the Carlton Tower in 1968 , but I do know it was a rare occurrence to see him even emerge from his kitchen , let alone dine .
27 I do n't know it was a two liner , um an intro an introduction to marketing and P R and an introduction to internal communications were talking about you know the house newspaper , now that 's the
28 There was something at St Michael 's but I did n't know it was the one world week .
29 ‘ You did n't know he was a drunken sot who beat her up on a Saturday night , did you ? ’
30 If a horse did that , I 'd know he was a bad 'un . ’
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