Example sentences of "[pron] was a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a hero . |
| 2 | I would n't say I was a hero . ’ |
| 3 | I was a mistake . |
| 4 | When it became clear I was a success he tried to get rid of me permanently . |
| 5 | Er I was a field intelligence officer . |
| 6 | ‘ What if I told you that I was a Conservative ? ’ |
| 7 | For a number of seasons , before I began teaching at New York University and going to the Horn of Africa during the early part of the season , I was a tipster for the Sydney Morning Herald . |
| 8 | Now , he shrugs it all off : ‘ I suppose I was a threat to them . |
| 9 | I was a computer engineer , though normally I tell journalists I was a gravedigger . ’ |
| 10 | One minute I was a ploughman ; the next I was scrambling to get out from under an interrogator 's lamp . |
| 11 | She was a Campaigner Chief when I was a campaigner . |
| 12 | I was a Queen , but I was only eighteen . |
| 13 | She was afraid to kill me , because I was a Queen . |
| 14 | I always looked very young for my age and from his manner I suspected he thought I was a schoolgirl . |
| 15 | When I was a schoolgirl some friends took me on to a farm and I used to watch the milking and think what a grand life it was , so healthy , not at all like life in the pits and the factories . |
| 16 | ‘ Only when I was a schoolgirl , ’ she admitted . |
| 17 | ‘ If I was a Romany I 'd have ended up fighting Nahum , ’ said Seb , trying not to allow the emotion he felt to show . |
| 18 | With short intervals , from [ eight or nine ] onwards I was a writer by choice . |
| 19 | Yes , I was a crane driver then . |
| 20 | Well I was a crane driver from nineteen thirty two till I went stevedoring , what time would that be , oh about nineteen fifty five I reckon . |
| 21 | I mean I know in my time when I was a crane driver if they , if one of them did n't turn up dow down at Cliff Quay they 'd come along to a crane driver and they 'd say , take a rope for us will you . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought I was a goner , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought I was a goner , Lady Luck was with me , ’ said Perrett . |
| 24 | Then I tried swimming , but what with the current and the fucking cassock — and then bang I got hit in the ribs like someone had kicked me and I thought I was a goner , it must be a rock I thought and I gave up and sort of passed out . |
| 25 | I was a gambler on a winning streak : it did n't matter what number I placed my bet on , it always came up a winner . |
| 26 | ‘ All the people I wrote to thought I was a lecturer . |
| 27 | I was only a child , it 's not surprising I was a nuisance . ’ |
| 28 | From the moment I was born I was a nuisance . |
| 29 | Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know . |
| 30 | During the late Fifties , Sixties and early Seventies , I was a contributor as a cartoonist under the pseudonym Pav . |