Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was to heal them was the act of obedience to what God had said , and faith in what he had said . |
| 2 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 3 | As we have seen the Prague School were also interested in the content of texts as well as their language , but what concerned them was the structure of the content as a self-contained system of signs to be separated out into its different levels , not the overall impression that it conveys . |
| 4 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 5 | ALL THAT WAS GIVEN ME WAS THE MATTER OF THREE SCENES , AND THE CENTRAL IDEA OF A VOLUNTARY CHANGE BECOMING INVOLUNTARY . |
| 6 | If I did n't know Karen I should think I was the candidate for diabetes . |
| 7 | The heads of these charming horsemen are so like that of the boxer that one might think his was the stele this base supported . |
| 8 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 9 | Eventually Rain said : ‘ Barbara Coleman has been threatened , Edouard has been beaten up and Sabine Jourdain has been murdered — and all because no one is to know she was the painter and not Durance . ’ |
| 10 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 11 | One of these who visited him was the Comte Alexandre de Marenches , the conservative head of the French secret service , who had known and admired the Shah for years . |
| 12 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 13 | The only activity Gerald had forbidden her was the embroidery of tapestry , which he had declared too menial an occupation for a young lady of her intelligence , preferring her to accompany him on his visits to neighbouring landlords as she had done that day . |
| 14 | I did n't know it was the duvet duvet . |
| 15 | ‘ How did you know it was the motorbike service ? ’ |
| 16 | How did I know he was the world 's greatest ? |
| 17 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 18 | She thought more about losing the coal to Mrs Phipps than about Granny , it seemed to me then , but I expect it was the shock that caused her to react in that way . |
| 19 | Others say it was the shortage of pubs , shops , churches , transport and police stations . |
| 20 | Indeed , industry observers say it was the swingers who gave birth to the home porn video in the early-Eighties . |
| 21 | Say it was the beginning of a feeling that you would like me . |
| 22 | Some say it was the importing of whole streets of fighting families from the fishquays , with their dockland diversions of prostitution , drug-dealing and handling . |
| 23 | The bone itself is probably the ilium , one of the bones in the toad or frog 's pelvic girdle : some say it was the breast bone . |
| 24 | When she awoke , rubbing at a rather stiff neck , feeling hungry , but better than she expected , she found it was the middle of the morning and sunshine was streaming into every corner of the cottage . |
| 25 | When a mis-fire occurred it was the practice to clear out the hole down to the powder , insert the pricker , and again stem the hole . |
| 26 | It was the letter that really upset you — rather than my stupidity in not being sufficiently clairvoyant to know it was the chef 's day off . ’ |
| 27 | As a further result women were subordinated sexually , because the change to patriliny and monogamy restricted the sexual freedom of the woman , in that it was essential for the man to know he was the father of her children . |
| 28 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 29 | He would confess all , go on his knees , say he was the Prince 's slave , buy him expensive presents … |
| 30 | I mean , I can remember him on this , er on this bike and then he rose to be a manager and er as he was , I say he was the manager fo er magistrate up until he retired last year . |