Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was therefore no longer any reason for or point in hesitation ; and I said that if I were the choice that I would respond to the best of my ability … |
| 2 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 3 | We were very à deux , and I was the hoover and windolene queen . |
| 4 | Yes , I can now reveal that in a previous life I was the iceberg that sunk the Titanic . |
| 5 | I was the commander and er I was erm in a control vehicle , a police vehicle , er was parked nearby to the flat . |
| 6 | I was the goodie and he was n't exactly the baddie , but we were against each other all the time . |
| 7 | as if I was the infant and she the elder ! |
| 8 | ‘ I was the mouse and the owl . ’ |
| 9 | With the egocentricity of all human creatures , exacerbated by my youth and misery I assumed that I was the cause and source of this lack of comfort and stirred myself to attempt to dispel it . |
| 10 | You know , as if I was the enemy or something . ’ |
| 11 | And I felt and I said I did not kill her and I was the murderer and Shameer said check hit me but she did n't it felt like a hit and you do n't accidentally do that do you ? |
| 12 | His was the genius that enabled King Edward I to raise great fortresses by threes and fours in the space of five or six summers . |
| 13 | His was the voice that ranted and sneered at the nation 's internal enemies , over the boarded baths at Paddington and Lambeth , the arenas of Streatham and Liverpool . |
| 14 | His was the discipline and the drive of the scientist ; Lear was first and foremost an artist . |
| 15 | And , as if she were the therapist and the journalist the patient , Eleanor ushered Valerie from the door . |
| 16 | You were the catalyst that she 's needed all these years . |
| 17 | If you were the mum and you brought these pizzas in and there was four people sitting there when you 've got six pizzas and they all want the same size . |
| 18 | After a game , whether you were the winner or loser , use your Adult to ask yourself ‘ How did it start ? ’ |
| 19 | like er , le let me , if you were the patient and Lesley was the nurse like , you would n't have a clue whether it was er |
| 20 | How did it feel to know that you were the instrument and the cause of something so enormously and comprehensively dreadful ? |
| 21 | I 've got a , a photograph somewhere where we had this trestle table er on the platform and if you were the tea and of course the men had to stay o overtime , they did n't get paid for it and we , we it was a seven day week for us , we were never paid for Sunday . |
| 22 | Then she brought his lips against hers again and kissed him long and lasciviously as if she was the man and he the woman … |
| 23 | Unwilling admiration wrung from Jess a kind of exasperated protectiveness , as if she was the mistress and Miss Phoebe in her care . |
| 24 | She did n't think she was the stuff that heroines were made of ! |
| 25 | She was the spoon that impatiently opened your lips and put artichoke purée between them , the arm that lowered you backwards into the tin bath , the water in which you lay and splashed and did not drown . |
| 26 | Always , maid or matron , she was the supplicant and her standing varied with her usefulness . |
| 27 | Paula was making it clear that she was the boss and that Baker had to do as he was told — whether sailing her yacht or sipping drinks . |
| 28 | Madame was there every night , she was The Bar and she was also the reason why so many of us went there all the time . |
| 29 | She was the choreographer and producer of their ‘ Sounds Scarlet ’ item at the Albert Hall Festival and by popular request will take a practical session in October . |
| 30 | She was the sort that keeps coming , that never knows when they 're licked … the mad cockerel I once hit with my toy cricket bat — it was an accident , of course it was , but I had to keep hitting it and hitting it until it was nothing but a bloody pulp on splintered sticks . |