Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At times they imagined they were a disembarked army and went to Santa Cruz or Machico , which they bombarded and took . |
| 32 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
| 33 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 34 | ‘ I thought — believed it was a passing affair … ’ |
| 35 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |
| 36 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 37 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |
| 38 | And she believed it was the same with him . |
| 39 | She herself claimed the 8th , the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary , and in this , if in nothing else , that most powerful of Protestant reformers , John Knox , agreed with her , while one of her staunchest supporters , the Catholic John Leslie , bishop of Ross , believed it was the earlier date . |
| 40 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 41 | Do you know , when television came it was the biggest event in our lives , for women . |
| 42 | The prioress muttered he was a pedlar , but the real source of the commotion was the corpse slumped across the fellow 's sumpter pony . |
| 43 | I learnt he was an old seaman who kept an inn , and he knew all the seamen in Bristol . |
| 44 | The new dealer assumed it was a genuine stock . |
| 45 | Possibly someone assumed it was a concentrated form of oxygen , and therefore invigorating . |
| 46 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 48 | In Canada the British not only deluded themselves that they had defeated the axiom ; they also imagined it was the federal ingredient that had enabled them to do the trick . |
| 49 | The next climb that attracted us was The Magic Line on El Gorro Frigio — a large dome higher up the massif . |
| 50 | oh , they may of been updated then , the question I asked you was a different one , when was the moment when they became inaccurate ? |
| 51 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 52 | As it happened I was the first to reach the meeting place , and soon , four others turned up . |
| 53 | Much to everyone 's surprise , when the exhibition and the Funfair at Battersea opened they were an immense success . |
| 54 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 55 | When the offences happened he was an unenthusiastic and below average soldier , the court heard . |
| 56 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 57 | They had got his birth certificate , which confirmed he was the only son of Sydney Marriot Marr , Major , late of the Royal Artillery , and Helen Marie Armitage . |
| 58 | THE wayward Marquess of Blandford last night claimed it was a lost love which led him into drug addiction . |
| 59 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 60 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |