Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 4 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 5 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Her qualifications were adequate but what hooked us was the photo she included . |
| 12 | What woke me was the land singing . |
| 13 | Then I hear the guy laugh downstairs and what really woke me was the dog . |
| 14 | What amazed me was the space — long stretches of beautiful beach with just a handful of people on them even on a Bank Holiday . |
| 15 | What amazed me was the way Ray did such a spectacular somersault just to convince little Louis that he really had scored victory . |
| 16 | What really amazed me was the way the hawk seemed to know out of which hole the rabbit was going to pop even before its ears appeared . |
| 17 | What amazed me was the number of Black workers who turned up . |
| 18 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 19 | I do n't even know whether anything she told me was the truth . |
| 20 | ‘ And you assumed I was the father , no doubt ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Looking at her just then , I truly believed she was the lady Anne ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I killed her in the field because I believed she was the devil . ’ |
| 23 | You stopped believing in Father Christmas , tooth fairies , paternal omniscience and in the sort of over-the-top crazy heart-thudding happy-ever-after love they told you was the ideal . |
| 24 | Well apparently that was n't the end of the garden you see cos that came across like this and when you went through a gap in the hedge about another twenty yards further on in the far distance it seemed there was the hut . |
| 25 | As Shaffer added : ‘ What distinguished him was the energy he always demonstrated . |
| 26 | Perhaps what told him was the attention they paid to the drunk man who weaved his way , shouting and stumbling , down the car . |
| 27 | The frustration he caused her was the keynote of every one-sided altercation . |
| 28 | For sixteen years after the heavenly wedding , she felt ‘ a flame of fire ’ in her breast , which God told her was the heat of the Holy Ghost . |
| 29 | His about-face once in office pleased economists , but robbed him of his mandate : the voters no longer believed he was the man they had elected . |
| 30 | It seemed it was the end . |