Example sentences of "i [was/were] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 But no one here has treated me as though I were anything but a permanent staff member , so do n't have any worries on that score . ’
2 ‘ For many years people thought I was something of a rebel or a madman , ’ Annesley recalled .
3 I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms .
4 I was something of a child prodigy .
5 So I was something of a godsend for her .
6 Even though as a graduate I was something of an oddity , I was absorbed into the background after a time and people treated me as one of them .
7 His letters from Oxford in his third term , after gaining the Lincoln History Exhibition , are much shorter , less introspective , and full of details about his writing , his plans for the future , his increased reading but , above all , his growing friendship with MacAlister who felt that ‘ his intimate outpouring to me was something of a comfort to him ’ .
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