Example sentences of "[num ord] [pron] [vb past] [pron] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an aggressive television appearance on May 9th he denied there was any ‘ national security powerbase ’ in the government . |
| 2 | whatever you know , cos at first I thought he was hot in his cot and |
| 3 | At first I thought I was dead , but after that everything is a blurr . |
| 4 | Nothing wrong with it , but at first I thought it was nondescript , and then I thought it felt weird . |
| 5 | Neelam : Well first I thought it was twenty something but then I realised it was six ; two take away six ca n't do that … so … um … it went down to ten . |
| 6 | At first I thought it was some pimps , the door literally came off its hinges . |
| 7 | At first I thought it was some ague but it proved to the Sweating Sickness . |
| 8 | His grey hair was cropped so short that at first I thought it was bald . |
| 9 | At first she thought it was one of the old ones and she almost wiped it out . |
| 10 | Dot thought at first she meant it was unkind for the man to be so constricted by the many instruments strapped to all parts of his body . |
| 11 | At first everybody thought he was homosexual . |
| 12 | And at first it seemed she was lucky . |
| 13 | At first he thought I was mad , but when I took the live animals out of my pocket to show him , he believed me . |
| 14 | At first he thought it was some kind of a St Christopher medal , but it seemed too thick . |
| 15 | At first he thought it was unfamiliar to him , but then , with a shock , he realized it was Rafiq 's . |
| 16 | But first he analysed what was wrong with the established shops . |
| 17 | But then the next I heard he was dead . |
| 18 | ‘ The last I heard she was fine , ’ Vitor said , reaching for his glass . |
| 19 | last I knew it was five pence a year . |