Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | all you told me was that Miss was retiring . |
| 2 | What he told me was that M. Chaillot adored the company of women and would wish to charm me . |
| 3 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 4 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 5 | If she stood firm , there was nothing he could do , she told herself — though whether she believed it was another matter . |
| 6 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 7 | I think I just assumed he was that sort of person and night-time did that to him . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm surprised at yer. , mate , I never reckoned you was that kind of bloke . |
| 9 | All was well at first , but when she calved it was another story . |
| 10 | At the end of my talk the chairman of the session , John G. Taylor from Kings College , London , claimed it was all nonsense . |
| 11 | Fringe , flat out at racing pace , had a wildness about him I could n't really control and I guessed it was that quality which won him races . |
| 12 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 13 | but the other one , they did this vi video diary that they each spoke on and he was getting more upset , the more weight she lost he was more discontent in saying that |
| 14 | Whether I understood them was another matter . |
| 15 | I suppose he thought I was another weirdo like him that always sit on benches talking to themselves . |
| 16 | She 'd be sitting at home waiting for this bloody man , who at best thought she was some kind of alien , and at worst , stark , staring mad . |
| 17 | The students felt it was another infringement of their already limited freedom and disliked the highhanded manner in which it was carried out . |
| 18 | He felt it was this type of blanket discrimination against West Belfast which the legislation fails to address and any serious attempt to end discrimination must contain positive discrimination and quotas . |
| 19 | The triumph came as a surprise to many fans … but Ron Pickering knew it was another step to even greater glory . |
| 20 | No , I , I knew it was some time but I just I remembered Louise 's birthday because Louise 's birthday was the Friday the thirteenth |
| 21 | I said I thought it was that way but , you know , agreed with them . |
| 22 | I thought it was that wife . |
| 23 | At first Grainne thought it was that power was stealing over them , and then she thought that it was not power but strength , only that did not seem quite right either . |
| 24 | Some clearly thought it was all part of the night 's entertainment . |
| 25 | They thought it was all part of his evident ‘ foolishness ’ . |
| 26 | We all thought it was all part of number one . |
| 27 | I thought it was another boy ! |
| 28 | I thought it was another book on Mediterranean cooking there somewhere |
| 29 | ‘ I thought it was some weirdo and when I asked who was calling the voice yelled : ‘ It 's me ! ’ |
| 30 | Tabitha thought it was some kind of antenna ; then she realized it was an empty perch . |