Example sentences of "[verb] i [was/were] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | To hear her talk you 'd think I was the hired help . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | But it was of no avail , and as the time passed I was the unwilling witness of the gradual transition from heartiness to silence , then to something like panic . |
| 4 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 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 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 7 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 8 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 9 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
| 14 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 15 | At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it . |
| 16 | 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 ! ’ |
| 17 | I thought I was the bad girl , but everybody else was doing exactly the same . |
| 18 | I always thought I was the philandering type , but my mind keeps going back to her . |
| 19 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
| 20 | He said I was the healthiest ghost he 'd ever seen ! |
| 21 | ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two . |