Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] part " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was part of the furniture , yes , but I was more than that : I was part of the family . |
| 2 | I was part of the furniture , yes , but I was more than that : I was part of the family . |
| 3 | Since then I am called ‘ Majesty ’ and it seems to me as if I was part of a play . |
| 4 | I was part way across a basin between two outcrops of rock . |
| 5 | First I would relax , lie upon a bed , although not the bed in which I normally slept , go through the breathing exercises until I felt that I was part of the bed , weightless and sinking through it . |
| 6 | But they feel that they belong to two families and , as one girl put it , ‘ I was part of that woman 's body for nine months ’ , so discovering her birth-mother 's identity seemed , to her , an urgent necessity . |
| 7 | I was part of a typical black family . |
| 8 | I was part of a small group of women who met regularly above a shabby public house in Baggot Street to talk feminism and discuss the current state of Irish politics . |
| 9 | With 115 Squadron at Marham , after doing the conversion course , I was part of the crew that took WF562 down to Odiham for the Coronation Review of the RAF , but what was not mentioned was the cleaning of the aircraft using tins of ‘ Duraglit ’ by air and ground crew before we went , only to fly through a rain storm on the way down and having to do it all over again , when we arrived . |
| 10 | I was part of the week 's news , after all . |
| 11 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |
| 12 | I only hoped I was part of that plan . |
| 13 | ‘ I was glad I was part of a different shift . |
| 14 | I had a nasty feeling that I was part of this do-it-yourself metaphor . |
| 15 | ‘ I was a mathematics don at Cambridge living a rather sheltered life , but I was part of a group that enjoyed playing cards . |
| 16 | While there I was part of a management team that led a successful buyout of the Bricom Group from B & c . |
| 17 | Yes I was part of the firearms team that was er briefed to enter that department . |
| 18 | erm There is a general concern I think with multiple occupancy that there 's , a whole way of life of East Oxford is changing , and not for the better , and indeed I was part of this when I moved into the area ten years ago . |
| 19 | She felt transported into their safe , happy world , felt as though she were part of it . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you were part of the set-up there . ’ |
| 21 | That was probably another of the reasons why they became so obsessed with loyalty , with the idea that you were part of some élite squad . |
| 22 | It has no baying studio audience so that , if you laugh , you do so as if you were part of the scene . |
| 23 | When you were part of the 14th INT , sleep was something you never took for granted . |
| 24 | First came belief , then involvement ; after that — once you were part of the family — sides did n't matter . |
| 25 | So the quickest way to get to the woods , if you were part of the Martin household , was to enter the orchard farthest from the house and climb over the vine-clad wall at its end . |
| 26 | Oh yes , so you were part of saying |
| 27 | If you were part of the trust meetings and saw the degree of work that he does do regularly on our behalf it is quite considerable he does n't do it for nothing ! |
| 28 | Er yes in in on part if you were part of the moon that 's facing the sun it would get very hot . |
| 29 | Perhaps they thought she was part of his troupe ? |
| 30 | And suggestions that she was part of a virginal vanguard of ‘ bimbettes ’ — too young and unsullied to be fully-fledged bimbos — brought the first flashes of what was to become a formidable temper . |