Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 3 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 4 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 5 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Her qualifications were adequate but what hooked us was the photo she included . |
| 10 | What woke me was the land singing . |
| 11 | Then I hear the guy laugh downstairs and what really woke me was the dog . |
| 12 | What amazed me was the space — long stretches of beautiful beach with just a handful of people on them even on a Bank Holiday . |
| 13 | What amazed me was the way Ray did such a spectacular somersault just to convince little Louis that he really had scored victory . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What amazed me was the number of Black workers who turned up . |
| 16 | Because at present you 've got what you told me were the horse walks which are the tracks out here with |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I do n't even know whether anything she told me was the truth . |
| 19 | ‘ And you assumed I was the father , no doubt ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Looking at her just then , I truly believed she was the lady Anne ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I killed her in the field because I believed she was the devil . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I assumed you were the type of patient who would have been told … ’ |
| 24 | As Shaffer added : ‘ What distinguished him was the energy he always demonstrated . |
| 25 | Perhaps what told him was the attention they paid to the drunk man who weaved his way , shouting and stumbling , down the car . |
| 26 | It seemed they were the couple with everything . |
| 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 | Dyson assumed they were the company 's directors , bankers , and financial advisers ; they all had an air of unassuming integrity and human dignity which in Dyson 's experience was acquired only by daily contact with very large sums of other people 's money . |
| 30 | ‘ Look , Superintendent , I assumed they were the source of the information in the first place . ’ |