Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To hear you talk , anyone would think I was some kind of wanton , a man-stealer . |
| 2 | I did n't know they were that colour . |
| 3 | If we 'd won it was 2nd place . |
| 4 | And a fellow said to me about two ye , two to three years ago I expect it was two telegraph people up that pole out an just outside of my gate and he 's still there and I walk along the gate and he turned round to me he say you 're a lucky man ! |
| 5 | They say it was great fun — and thought the able bodied that disabled people can contribute just as much — and sometimes more — as others . |
| 6 | say it was any thing to bother about |
| 7 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 8 | He was tall and pale and when Nicholson shook his hand he found it was icy cold . |
| 9 | all you told me was that Miss was retiring . |
| 10 | What he told me was that M. Chaillot adored the company of women and would wish to charm me . |
| 11 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 12 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 13 | I would have said she was medium height slim build , possibly |
| 14 | ‘ Have you any info on the subject I told you was top priority ? ’ |
| 15 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 16 | ‘ You should have said you were that way , Monica , ’ said Jan . |
| 17 | Her lawyers believed it was highest settlement made in an English divorce court . |
| 18 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 19 | If she stood firm , there was nothing he could do , she told herself — though whether she believed it was another matter . |
| 20 | ‘ He says he was freezing cold , ’ Philippa explained ‘ And stayed in my father 's old chamber in the White Tower . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Sullivan says it was this incident that prompted him to stage the break in . |
| 22 | Mark Arhens says it was hard work . |
| 23 | I imagine it was all part of the same reaction . |
| 24 | And while I continued to make my contribution , I really did feel it was high time I started looking out for number one . |
| 25 | The archers loosed blind in the darkness , but could do so only once without imperilling their friends , for after the shock of meeting it was stark hand to hand work without any daylight art about it , first a hacking and swinging ahead at any flesh that moved , then body to body fumbling where everyone panted out words in his own tongue to be safe from his comrades , and even swords were of little use . |
| 26 | I tell you what when you packed up smoking it was last cigarette you |
| 27 | Failure to sell it was one reason why Mountleigh went into receivership — because of concern that the centre was built on contaminated land . |
| 28 | Last night I had no idea how to pronounce it and assumed it was pure Quechua . |
| 29 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 30 | I think I just assumed he was that sort of person and night-time did that to him . |