Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , I was like my father , and I darkened rapidly in the sun until I was nearly the shade of terracotta . |
| 2 | Colin said : ‘ I am renewing old acquaintances as I was previously the site services manager at the end of the South Morecambe project . |
| 3 | The next minute I was up the tree with him . |
| 4 | I was not the daughter he wanted . |
| 5 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
| 6 | William Shakespeare left his wife his ‘ second best bed ’ , and an industrialist from Philadelphia who died in 1947 included among his bequests , ‘ to my wife I leave her lover , and the knowledge that I was n't the fool she thought I was ’ . |
| 7 | at the the time I think when I was n't being assertive and when I was n't the difference was the person was younger than me and I was being assertive and then when I perhaps was n't and like said you feel after that you 've let yourself down . |
| 8 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |
| 9 | By the age of 23 , I 'd starred in a one-man show on Broadway and when the play closed I confronted the truth that if I was n't the star of a play I could n't feed myself . |
| 10 | I was n't the sort of girl when I was younger that men lean out of cars and shout things to , and I 'm glad . |
| 11 | Being quite educated and articulate I was n't the sort of prisoner they expected , even though as there are more drug offenders there are more and more women like me . |
| 12 | What are you trying to say … that I was n't the woman involved ? |
| 13 | I mean , I was n't the world you know . |
| 14 | I was officially the gardener , but had come to fulfil also roles of secretary , comptroller of household , translator , interpreter , and stool-pigeon ( which they had always intended me to be ) . |
| 15 | I 'm sure Malcolm and Vivienne had discussions but at that stage , I was just the Saturday lad . |
| 16 | I was also the squadron instructor and the Link training instructor . |
| 17 | I was also the bane of Ron Roddan 's life . |
| 18 | You see I 'm worried , I was actually the young- the youngest in the school you know when I started . |
| 19 | I was never the friend of this power — it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERs — but it trusted me as its representative and I have done it as much harm in these dealings as I have you . |
| 20 | ‘ I was never the centre of attention , like you . ’ |
| 21 | I was never the focus of an actual focused ill-wishing , merely a bit part player in Bernard 's drama , but look what happened to me ! |
| 22 | ‘ I was always the type to be easily led . |
| 23 | I was always the buffer between the two , I used to say I agree with you dear , I do n't want her to wear nylons , that 's not the point , all her friends are wearing nylons and she 's not going to be the |
| 24 | All that tap , tap work in England was no good ; there I was always the governor , now I 'm learning all the time , nicking moves from everyone , ’ he said . |
| 25 | All that tap , tap work in England was no good ; there I was always the governor , now I 'm learning all the time , nicking moves from everyone , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Because I did n't have time , but er they started geography course work today and I was out the lesson |
| 27 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 28 | eight o'clock this morning , who the hell that was from , I do n't know , I was out the washing line I come flying in but I never got it , and nobody 's rung . |
| 29 | I sympathized and threw in a few choice obscenities and ‘ hanging 's too good for ‘ ems ’ but made a note to pick up a few watches next time I was down the Brick Lane midnight market . |
| 30 | And I 'd say I was down the docks last night trying to rob the life-rafts , getting the first aid kits and trying to get the Omnopon and all that , and I nearly got caught , ca n't you help us out ? |