Example sentences of "i [was/were] [pron] [prep] [art] " 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 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 8 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |