Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she realized I was a good thief and knew how to use a knife , she got to like me . |
| 2 | But it was of no avail , and as the time passed I was the unwilling witness of the gradual transition from heartiness to silence , then to something like panic . |
| 3 | ‘ I went into analysis because I realised I was a dangerous character — I mean this suicidal , self-destructive instinct I had . |
| 4 | You 'd only let me make love to you that night because you realised I was a better bet than Peter . |
| 5 | Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia . |
| 6 | Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders . |
| 7 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 8 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 9 | Rachel was usually the last to arrive , but tonight Annie found she was the last . |
| 10 | The job I found him was an undemanding clerical one . |
| 11 | ‘ But ye promised it was the last , ’ Winnie said , the drunken Rab ; and she could have pulled her hair and needed a pee but was frightened to leave Rab alone . |
| 12 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 13 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 14 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 15 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 16 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 17 | But she found it was a different school with different faces . |
| 18 | When it came to her turn to scramble ashore , she found it was no easy task to move the balance beam which swung the gates open . |
| 19 | She paced the garden ; she found it was an exact square . |
| 20 | The auction itself , while the organisers assured me was no more than their normal one , carried quite a few important items of furniture and there was also a wide range of smalls which commanded what I would consider to be better-than-normal prices . |
| 21 | I suppose what you told me was the whole truth ? ’ |
| 22 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 23 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 24 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 25 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 26 | I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy . |
| 27 | He did n't treat you with disrespect — he just assumed you were a mere mortal like the rest of us . |
| 28 | He assumed she was the younger daughter of the couple who lived on the second floor , until she spoke . |
| 29 | Powell believed they were a luxury Virgin could ill-afford . |
| 30 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |