Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [pron] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 2 | They keep questioning me , always asking where I was what I did why I did it , did all of them where I was who I was with who am I trying to kid why do n't I just admit I did it well if I did n't do all these things , who did ? |
| 3 | I was what I wanted to be : a girl . |
| 4 | I was everything he 'd dreamed of . |
| 5 | When I was one I ate a bun |
| 6 | Now I was one who saved a lot myself , and we had some very good holidays . |
| 7 | So I was I I had my house full all through the war . |
| 8 | ‘ You wanted to authenticate that I was who I said I was ? ’ she questioned . |
| 9 | And to be his was what she wanted — which made it such a nonsense that when , as he caressed his hands over her naked behind and then pulled her to him , that as her body came into contact with the pure maleness of him , she experienced a moment of totally unexpected panic . |
| 10 | You 're everything we hoped for . ’ |
| 11 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 12 | Yes she 's somebody I knew very very well indeed . |
| 13 | ‘ Now I 've seen her , she 's everything I thought she would be , ’ said one woman . |
| 14 | On the face of it , she was what she seemed : a lonely , nervous girl , travelling Europe alone , and , he conceded reluctantly , of very doubtful chastity . |
| 15 | She was what she called a conviction politician . |
| 16 | She was somebody who had mild short-term memory loss , which varied from day to day but she could remember anything about the past . |
| 17 | She was everything he had dared hope for , and more : she had perfect features and limbs , an endearing , screwed-up little face and a trace of dark hair on her pate , just to show she took after her parents . |
| 18 | She was everything he wanted — all ambition , all love , all comfort , all need , all passion embodied in Carla . |
| 19 | Well she was one who wanted to go . |
| 20 | ‘ Thank you , that was very good of you , ’ she murmured politely , but , feeling intimidated suddenly — or was that her guilty conscience again at work , she got to her feet and handed him the proof that she was who she said she was . |
| 21 | She thought her brain must be slowing up , because if he was certain at the start that she was who she said she was , why would he ring England ? |
| 22 | Probably making a mental note of it , already determined to check out that she was who she claimed to be , and not Lotta 's mischievous accomplice . |
| 23 | About two months after I had returned home , a letter came from Angela Woodin at Bletchley ; she was someone I had wanted to see but had not had the opportunity : |
| 24 | Like Eugenia , she was someone who had committed her love to another . |
| 25 | She was someone who minded her own business and had long since discovered it was seldom worth while to interfere with other people 's children . |
| 26 | No no put them back in there darling , they 're what we got at the pictures |
| 27 | Like Isobel , they were what they looked , quiet people doing very necessary jobs and a that moment grieving for one of their number who had left them . |
| 28 | She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats . |
| 29 | Spreadsheets allowed you only to play with figures — there were no built in graphing packages , they were something you bought separately . |
| 30 | The patrol took some prisoners and drove through the lines until they met up with a British unit , who refused to believe they were who they said they were . |