Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chairman of the Governors asked me was there a precedent in a flowing her to come into the interviews , and I said ‘ No , the precedent has already been set and that she was n't in on the other appointments . ’ |
| 2 | Some soldier saw me , realized I was n't a real major and I suppose he thought I was impersonating an officer or whatever . |
| 3 | After we all clambered off the bus and entered the school I started to become a bit more relaxed as I realised I was n't the only person there who had butterflies as big as eagles in their stomachs . |
| 4 | It was n't until I underwent hypnosis that I realised I was still a Catholic . |
| 5 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 6 | ‘ When the physician examined her , he found she was not a virgin ! |
| 7 | ‘ I said if we drew it was not the end of the world . |
| 8 | I really did feel like a Queen for a moment , well , even longer when I found it was not a flash in the pan , but that they were really going to stay with us . |
| 9 | Putting a hand out for the clock , she found it was only a quarter to eight . |
| 10 | ‘ The community would have much less confidence in me if they believed I was not the sort of person who would stand up for their interests . |
| 11 | But it seemed I was n't the only one with such fancies . |
| 12 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 13 | But her motives for writing seemed phoney — he believed it was just a form of competing with him and also imitation of Eleanor . |
| 14 | She believed it was still a struggle to address the needs and rights of black children in the care system , she said . |
| 15 | The Attlee administration , and Ernest Bevin in particular , believed it was only a matter of time before the British economy would recover . |
| 16 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
| 17 | Eventually , in a letter to Mrs Kemp 's lawyer , Mr McCallum offered 24 December 1990 as the only free date for a hearing , but added it was not the most suitable date . |
| 18 | It has been said that ‘ when O'Reilly appealed it was not a request but a demand for the blood of the victim . ’ |
| 19 | It was the veil that told it was not the garden , then the hat that went to race-meetings and the dressing-case made up the rest of the story : Maman was going away . |
| 20 | The farmers had to wait some considerable time for compensation , and when it came it was not the expected bonanza . |
| 21 | It seemed it was not a shop , or a store , but a palace , full of the stuff of dreams , stocked with fancies and sheer imaginings , desires and private caprices . |
| 22 | She assumed it was only a temporary lapse in character while he nursed his head but she still determined to keep the conversation going for as long as possible . |
| 23 | They were still close enough to shore for him to return her to the police if she admitted she was not an experienced ocean sailor . |
| 24 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 25 | She gave him a smile that showed she was still a little insecure , still not quite believing that Ace loved her . |
| 26 | As it happened it was n't a bad lie , so instead of 1-iron , 2-iron to the green , he 's now playing driver , 5-iron . |
| 27 | Many stated it was also the point at which they ‘ realised ’ they were addicted . |
| 28 | Going to grammar school really made me isolated It was only a couple of miles away from where I lived but that 's a long way when you 're only 11 — years-old and all your mates from junior school had gone to the local comprehensive round the corner . |
| 29 | Lucier was accustomed to it : the wry grins as they acknowledged he was only a man in costume ; the superstitious snatching away of their hands for fear he was a little bit more . |
| 30 | In 1928 Green and Mellanby noted that though vitamin A was then known as the growth promoting vitamin , evidence from animal studies showed it was also an anti-infective vitamin . |