Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 2 | Well when we got it home I realized it was the battery lead that was just a little bit of lead |
| 3 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
| 4 | I expected it was the loss of her husband , so I bought some material and made bead bags , and bags I filled with chalks , and a small drawing board for her quite intelligent little girl . |
| 5 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 6 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 7 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 8 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 9 | I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy . |
| 10 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 11 | ‘ I killed her in the field because I believed she was the devil . ’ |
| 12 | I reckoned he was the minister Clare was planning to denounce and I set about trying to discover his secret for myself . ’ |
| 13 | I guessed it was the shock of Froggy 's death , and the tension of caddying for one of his contracted professionals . |
| 14 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
| 15 | From the foam on it I guessed it was the first out of the keg that evening . |
| 16 | On answering the phone I discovered it was the manager of my football team , Bob , to say that due to a waterlogged pitch the game was off . |
| 17 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 18 | Playing tunes that bring a smile to my face and a sentimental tear to my eye , for the last time that I heard them was the day of the first Gittel 's wedding . |
| 19 | But when she married and moved to a distant part of the country , I decided it was the moment for me to change my life too . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
| 21 | I felt I was the lamb to the slaughter . |
| 22 | I felt it was the most likely place . |
| 23 | I felt it was the least I could do . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It sounds corny , but as soon as I saw her I knew she was the one , ’ said Blanc , whose first marriage broke up during the difficult years when he was struggling to build up his reputation . |
| 25 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 26 | But I knew it was the toad . |
| 27 | I knew it was the hare 's fault all along . ’ |
| 28 | I knew it was the Whistler . ’ |
| 29 | But I knew it would work , I knew it was the perfect register for it ; it was just a question of the right tonality and the right feeling . |
| 30 | " I knew it was the same for you ; that made it worse . |