Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 5 | Rachel was usually the last to arrive , but tonight Annie found she was the last . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 8 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 9 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 10 | I suppose what you told me was the whole truth ? ’ |
| 11 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 12 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 13 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 14 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He assumed she was the younger daughter of the couple who lived on the second floor , until she spoke . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 20 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |
| 21 | And she believed it was the same with him . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Do you know , when television came it was the biggest event in our lives , for women . |
| 24 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The next climb that attracted us was The Magic Line on El Gorro Frigio — a large dome higher up the massif . |
| 28 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 29 | As it happened I was the first to reach the meeting place , and soon , four others turned up . |
| 30 | 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 . |