Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 2 | He was tall and pale and when Nicholson shook his hand he found it was icy cold . |
| 3 | ‘ Have you any info on the subject I told you was top priority ? ’ |
| 4 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 5 | Last night I had no idea how to pronounce it and assumed it was pure Quechua . |
| 6 | In 1979 , similarly , Iris Murdoch remarked she was glad Labour lost ; and she was voting Conservative , not without reservations , by the 1980s . |
| 7 | On hearing ‘ Go to it Rose Section — go to it ’ I decided it was Rose Section although the section was too far off to be identified definitely . |
| 8 | Turning to face Luce , his hands thrust into the pockets of his beige trousers , he went on , ‘ Last year I decided it was high time I had a wife and family . |
| 9 | YOU THOUGHT I WAS FATTY FIL ! |
| 10 | I do n't know where they got my name , or why they thought I was suitable material for their article . ’ |
| 11 | She saw he was bright red as she stared at him . |
| 12 | I just I just saw it was pure virgin olive oil and I thought oh that 'll do |
| 13 | I knew it was military equipment for Central America , pass it on . |
| 14 | I knew it was bad news . |
| 15 | Mrs Kipling said when she put her children Gwynne , three , Sarah-Jayne , two , and nine-month-old Aaron to bed , Gwynne said he could smell something but she thought it was burning toast . |
| 16 | I thought it was marvellous opportunity to do it that way , each subject held in a bay and in strictly chronological order . |
| 17 | She thought it was good pay , but well earned . |
| 18 | But shoppers differed on whether they thought it was good news . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose he thought it was boring stuff about equal pay and women ’ , she says , ‘ I went berserk . |
| 20 | So she went with them and thought it was great fun . |
| 21 | You all thought it was great fun — going off for a hot weather holiday ! |
| 22 | He thought it was great fun to throw me about and wrestle with me and punch and kick me . |
| 23 | All that summer I was ill — they said they thought it was glandular fever — but I know it was my way of reacting to my father 's death . |
| 24 | the boys says they all had a good time … one fell into the water but he thought it was excellent fun … |
| 25 | ‘ I thought you liked it here , I thought you thought it was fun living in England and sleeping with me . ’ |
| 26 | Oh it is a flap , I thought it was red tape on there . |
| 27 | And , I thought it was lovely pattern on there ! |
| 28 | ‘ I thought it was just bronchitis . ’ |
| 29 | I thought it was just hysteria . |
| 30 | The biographers of Paddy Mayne quote a veteran of the North African campaign : ‘ We thought it was tough dealing with extremes of heat . |