Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was [art] [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 | It was a position of strange intimacy ; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world . |
| 5 | She then realised I was no fool . |
| 6 | ‘ I got out of breath drying myself after a bath and I realised I was a bit overweight , ’ said Mervin , who now tips the scales at just over eight stones ! |
| 7 | He made doubly sure I realised I was an outcast in a heavy-handed way — and he could n't get rid of me fast enough . |
| 8 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 9 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 10 | First as scullery maid , then — when he found I was a vicar 's daughter — Tom put me upstairs . |
| 11 | When he found I was a stranger , he explained that the houses were numbered at random ‘ in the old-fashioned way ’ . |
| 12 | However I found I was a lot more satisfied when everything slipped into place . |
| 13 | It did n't stop her lashing out at him with her teeth and back legs as he unsaddled her , but he felt he was making progress and , the next day , stick and balling her he found she was a natural . |
| 14 | She bought herself a ring and pretended she was a widow . ’ |
| 15 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 18 | Nutty remembered supposing that Nails would hit a bullseye every time if he pretended it was a policeman he was shooting at , and wondered how she was going to reconcile that . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ He mentioned he was a friend of yours , ’ said Dolly . |
| 21 | But that 's OK because at least he never mentioned it was a mess until after I 'd had it cut , and tidied it up . |
| 22 | in the morning but then after the diarrhoea stopped it was a kind of sickness you know ? |
| 23 | But after checking his credentials they found he was a prize chump — forklift driver Nigel Mansell , from Byran-cum-Sutton , West Yorks . |
| 24 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 25 | Unfolding the notice , she found it was a call to Italian women to demonstrate at the NATO base where the camp had been set up . |
| 26 | When I first found this I thought , Oh , it 's a sort of truck , well , well , and then I walked up here and I found it was a truck with — ’ |
| 27 | And the mono thing worked ; we found it was a format we could really use well , so for the time being we 're carrying on down the path . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Her qualifications were adequate but what hooked us was the photo she included . |