Example sentences of "[vb past] i [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 2 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 3 | First as scullery maid , then — when he found I was a vicar 's daughter — Tom put me upstairs . |
| 4 | When he found I was a stranger , he explained that the houses were numbered at random ‘ in the old-fashioned way ’ . |
| 5 | However I found I was a lot more satisfied when everything slipped into place . |
| 6 | A little crowd was encouraging them while they performed what somebody told me was a tango . |
| 7 | The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter . |
| 8 | She noticed I was a bit green from the sickness . |
| 9 | ‘ My old man always reckoned I was a blockhead , ’ he explained , and brayed with laughter at his own joke . |
| 10 | The food was not too good , nor too plentiful , so when I returned I was a lot lighter and a lot fitter . |
| 11 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 12 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ At which point you decided I was a tramp , ’ she said tonelessly . |
| 14 | ‘ The job he offered me was a sort of general factotum , a personal troubleshooter , but he wanted someone with a financial background . |
| 15 | I chose grey and black top of all , which meant I was a psychopath . |
| 16 | I felt as if he felt I was a stranger . |
| 17 | One night I dreamed I was a butterfly and , upon waking , was never able to discern whether I was a man who had dreamed that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that he was a man . |
| 18 | ‘ They knew I was a sniffer but I was put on a YTS placement to learn to be a carpet fitter . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not sure what you mean , ’ she stated then , ‘ but you were most definitely hostile to me when you saw me the next day , and that was still before you knew I was a journalist . ’ |
| 20 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 21 | so half of me knew I was a woman |
| 22 | No being what I thought I was a man in those days I was n't really interested in them , but I know there was competitions and er I believe there was different numbers posted on windows and if you got the right number you got a prize but I remember Palfry Park I 'm having trouble with my eyes I 've got over-active tear ducts and |
| 23 | I thought I was a gonner , ’ he said weakly and tried a smile which became a grimace . |
| 24 | The man thought I was a thief , Lori , ’ she said shortly . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought I was a bird of paradise before , but that was in the flow of what never quite materialised — that new play ? |
| 26 | They thought I was a child like Edmund … but the older girls … ’ |
| 27 | She readily admits " Many people thought I was a bit forward . |
| 28 | And of course he came to see my father , and my father thought I was a bit young . |
| 29 | And he thought I was a bit young . |
| 30 | I know , I thought I was a bit . |