Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the [adj] person " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 2 | Obviously , they were so sure that I was the right person for the job , that they needed a second opinion . |
| 3 | ‘ I was the right person in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 4 | One Monday I was the only person out of four in the bar who was not unconscious . |
| 5 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 6 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
| 7 | I was pretty sure I was the only person left in the world . |
| 8 | When she was first married , I was the only person she could turn to . |
| 9 | It was pretty wonderful to be sitting there watching it all and knowing that I was the only person in the whole school who realised exactly what was going on inside the Trunchbull 's pants . |
| 10 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 11 | She told me I was the only person she could trust , though I often saw her around with other people , misplaced people , I suppose . |
| 12 | How comforting to read Gill Rowley 's Pet-Hate List ( YWTU , October GH ) about the check-out trolley pushers — I always thought I was the only person in the world who wanted to reverse , screaming hysterically , ‘ Get back ! ’ |
| 13 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 14 | She looked at me unsmiling and I opened my mouth to protest that I was the last person in the world to take such a thing for granted , that I was the only person in the world who held a low opinion of sexual experience . |
| 15 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 16 | So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about . |
| 17 | I was the first person to take him simply as he was , and for that he showed his gratitude by giving me a light kiss on the cheek in the darkened carriage . |
| 18 | I guess I was the first person to develop the idea of the modular system : ie. everything from the preamp to the power amp was modular . |
| 19 | I was the first person the Iranians contacted . |
| 20 | I was the first person in a nun 's care to get pregnant I 'm famous ! |
| 21 | I was the first person she turned to when she found herself pregnant . ’ |
| 22 | Gary says : I was the first person to go solo . |
| 23 | ‘ I bought them in Italy ( I was the first person in England to wear tinted glasses — Prince Philip had them after me ) and the little girl in the shop used to say , ‘ Dad , Dad , that 's Roy Orbison ’ . ’ |
| 24 | I was the last person anyone thought would get pregnant . |
| 25 | She looked at me unsmiling and I opened my mouth to protest that I was the last person in the world to take such a thing for granted , that I was the only person in the world who held a low opinion of sexual experience . |
| 26 | Apart from him , I was pretty sure I was the oldest person there . |
| 27 | But — oh , Ellie , there was such a to-do last time , Phena carrying on as though she were the only person in the world who had been lied to , and I know it was hard for her , and Feargal would have given her all this without a blink , but she wanted to play the martyr , and now makes him pay for it in oh , so many little ways . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And then — this evening , when everyone was so upset … you only thought of her … you went off after her as if she were the only person that mattered to you … |
| 29 | ‘ I came to find you because you were the only person who told me that Liam would n't be in that house . |
| 30 | He knew how to look at you as if you were the only person who 'd ever interested him . |