Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was just a girl who couldaint say Non ! |
| 32 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 33 | He did n't mind about me : I was just a girl . ’ |
| 34 | I was just a girl , so my father was never really interested in me , and my mother — well , she loved my brother too … ’ |
| 35 | ‘ I was just a caretaker , until my successor could be trained , ’ he said more gently . |
| 36 | Thought I was just a wannabe nobody . ’ |
| 37 | Way back , when I was just a lad , it seems , programs for the PC were , almost without exception , single use . |
| 38 | That I was just a father , a husband — I 'd somehow ceased to exist as a person in my own right . ’ |
| 39 | I was just a novice and he was fairly frightening , not giving an inch until he had sounded you out . |
| 40 | I was just a stranger up here in Liverpool , coming from Scotland and I did n't have anybody backing me , which a lot of people do — somebody pulling strings for them . |
| 41 | He seemed real and solid ; it was myself who felt weightless as though I was just a conduit for all these sensations . . |
| 42 | I was just a skivvy . |
| 43 | Like I was just a shadow , or a dog he does n't have to talk to . |
| 44 | I was just a piece of luggage to be labelled and sent wherever they wanted . |
| 45 | ‘ They had one son , my father , who , along with my mother , died in an accident when I was just a baby . |
| 46 | I was just a care assistant then , and I did n't know her too well at that time . |
| 47 | I was just an envelope . ’ |
| 48 | So I was selected as company runner , which meant that I was also a kind of servant , I forget the word … ’ |
| 49 | More recently the revelation that I was also a Punch columnist has provoked an equally predictable and ill-informed reaction . |
| 50 | I was also the squadron instructor and the Link training instructor . |
| 51 | I was also the bane of Ron Roddan 's life . |
| 52 | For I was also an episode in someone else 's narrative , not my own person , my mother 's child , and brought into being for a particular purpose . |
| 53 | If I was a Christian at all — and I was n't sure that I was — I thought I was probably a custard Christian . |
| 54 | He went on : ‘ Although I was already a member of the Church of England before joining the Friends ’ School in 1937 , I lean very much towards the Quaker faith . |
| 55 | From being a child to being an adult this apparent choice changed to the overriding , deep-rooted belief that I was actually a boy , that nature had somehow made a mistake biologically but that I was really a boy . |
| 56 | So this thing of having the crane doing this and the crane doing that , I was actually a bit concerned about that . |
| 57 | You see I 'm worried , I was actually the young- the youngest in the school you know when I started . |
| 58 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 59 | ‘ I WAS never a child — always an adult . |
| 60 | I was never a child I was born bald . |