Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I saw Computer Services , I was immediately a bit disappointed . |
| 2 | I was formerly a Lecturer in Phonetics and Linguistics at Queen Margaret College , Edinburgh and while there , I developed a number of computer programs to assist with my teaching . |
| 3 | In contrast , I was like my father , and I darkened rapidly in the sun until I was nearly the shade of terracotta . |
| 4 | Colin said : ‘ I am renewing old acquaintances as I was previously the site services manager at the end of the South Morecambe project . |
| 5 | At the beginning I was simply a labourer , which entailed doing all the preparation on the ground and ensuring that Eric on the roof was always supplied with materials to work with . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ If I was just a film actor maybe I would have done because that 's where all the films get made . |
| 8 | I was just a kid looking for the ‘ juice ’ ’ . |
| 9 | I was just a kid . ’ |
| 10 | Then is sometimes claimed to be necessarily anaphoric in nature , and to have no gestural deictic usage , but rather complex usages show this is not so — consider , for example , the following said pointing at a 1962 model Chevrolet ( Nunberg , 1978 : 33 ) ) : ( 55 ) I was just a kid then As an initial step towards seeing how time deixis interacts with cultural measurements of time in an absolute or non-deictic way , consider words like today , tomorrow , yesterday . |
| 11 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 12 | That is one heck of a seal launch ! ’ and Colin Lavelle 's ‘ No kidding lads , I was just a boy when I joined the queue for that stopper ! ’ |
| 13 | I was just a boy and it affected me deeply . |
| 14 | I just could n't get a word out then , I was just a quivering , stuttering heap , and I tried to say , ‘ I 've g-g-g-g-got a sp-sp-sp-speech impediment . ’ |
| 15 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 16 | I was just a doss . |
| 17 | To him I was just a child amusing herself . |
| 18 | I thought I was just a bit hyper , like everyone else . |
| 19 | ‘ I was just a bit taken aback , that 's all . |
| 20 | I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … . |
| 21 | I was just a bit jealous , I suppose . |
| 22 | So I was just a bit of sport . |
| 23 | I was just a bit too short of time on , on Friday to That 's about all I need . |
| 24 | Like , what if I opened the door , right , he did n't know I was coming home , he went , he looked at me and went , what are you doing here , I went , oh thanks Ryan , and he went , no , no I did n't mean it like that , I was just a bit surprised to see you like . |
| 25 | ‘ Off the field he was an established star and I was just a youngster . |
| 26 | I was just a squib and he was a six-former , very fine chap and took no notice of grubby little oicks . |
| 27 | I was just a girl who couldaint say Non ! |
| 28 | I was just a girl who couldaint say Non ! |
| 29 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 30 | He did n't mind about me : I was just a girl . ’ |