Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 2 | As we have seen the Prague School were also interested in the content of texts as well as their language , but what concerned them was the structure of the content as a self-contained system of signs to be separated out into its different levels , not the overall impression that it conveys . |
| 3 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 4 | It was a position of strange intimacy ; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world . |
| 5 | When she realized I was a good thief and knew how to use a knife , she got to like me . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She then realised I was no fool . |
| 8 | ‘ I went into analysis because I realised I was a dangerous character — I mean this suicidal , self-destructive instinct I had . |
| 9 | ‘ I got out of breath drying myself after a bath and I realised I was a bit overweight , ’ said Mervin , who now tips the scales at just over eight stones ! |
| 10 | You 'd only let me make love to you that night because you realised I was a better bet than Peter . |
| 11 | He made doubly sure I realised I was an outcast in a heavy-handed way — and he could n't get rid of me fast enough . |
| 12 | Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia . |
| 13 | Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders . |
| 14 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 15 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 16 | When he found I was a stranger , he explained that the houses were numbered at random ‘ in the old-fashioned way ’ . |
| 17 | First as scullery maid , then — when he found I was a vicar 's daughter — Tom put me upstairs . |
| 18 | However I found I was a lot more satisfied when everything slipped into place . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 21 | The place in which he found himself was a tall grimy building with a long passageway and the whole place reeked of cheap perfume . |
| 22 | It did n't stop her lashing out at him with her teeth and back legs as he unsaddled her , but he felt he was making progress and , the next day , stick and balling her he found she was a natural . |
| 23 | Rachel was usually the last to arrive , but tonight Annie found she was the last . |
| 24 | Which meant that er you could try and get away if you liked but you as soon as you mentioned you were a baker and they looked at your age you were . |
| 25 | She bought herself a ring and pretended she was a widow . ’ |
| 26 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |
| 27 | They 're all you mentioned one was a county councillor , what about Les what w he was involved with . |
| 28 | She might be growing to detest the man more with every passing second , but she doubted there was a woman alive who could deny his sheer male beauty , or fail to be drawn to it on the most basic level . |
| 29 | Alexei guessed that where the supports rose there were the foundations of the buildings above ground . |
| 30 | Mr Justice Auld ruled in favour of the defence , who maintained there was no manslaughter case . |