Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Night after night while I was asleep , I shouted that I was the murderer of William , Justine , and Henry . |
| 2 | However , Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign . |
| 3 | Melancia , who resigned after being served with a summons in connection with the alleged bribery , denied all charges of corruption and maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign . |
| 4 | I also had fierce battles with Peter Rees , while Peter 's successor , John MacGregor , maintained that I was the only minister who almost walked out of one of his ‘ bilaterals ’ . |
| 5 | Some authorities maintained that it was the first time a single drug had been shown to be useful in controlling psychotic patients . |
| 6 | A survey of teenage only children in Scotland found that they were the least likely to have played truant . |
| 7 | However , when Dolly Howard thought she would peep through the curtains to see how her father was reacting to the nudes she found that she was the one who was shocked . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've told you only the truth , my lovely one , ’ he breathed , and this time Fabia raised her head and kissed him , then found that she was the one being kissed , so expertly too that when eventually Ven pulled back she was feeling on a totally different plane . |
| 9 | A study carried out by Kerr for the Department of the Environment found that it was the better properties with gardens that were most likely to be bought ( especially three-bedroomed , semi-detached houses ) while the number of flats purchased remained small . |
| 10 | ‘ We were really nervous , ’ says Michelle West , ‘ but we found that it was the nervous people who stuck with the project . ’ |
| 11 | Gong et al reported that it was the congeners in alcohol and not alcohol itself that produced symptoms in asthmatic patients . |
| 12 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
| 13 | I realized that they were the two lights of a coach . |
| 14 | So I gingerly walked down and crept into the car realized that I was the one that had caused all that |
| 15 | As I opened it , and looked out , I realized that it was the first time I had consciously looked out : before , I had always been hurrying by . |
| 16 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 17 | Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home . |
| 18 | I was a bit shocked when a 60-year-old woman opened the door until I realized that she was the ‘ madam ’ who took the money . |
| 19 | Her face seemed familiar , but it was some time before he realized that she was the curly-haired bit who had given him the slip some months back . |
| 20 | Jeremy Healy 's music was loud and passionate , and designer/stylist Judy Blame agreed that it was the only decent stuff he 'd heard all week , adding that French Djs are the worst on the planet and that there is virtually no point in clubbing in Paris until the situation is remedied . |
| 21 | On recovery , Mr Hayden described the stranger to the porter who agreed that it was the same figure he had seen . |
| 22 | The air raids and gas attacks that everyone had feared did not take place but Anne and Sarah agreed that it was the small inconveniences of war that were hardest to bear . |
| 23 | It was interesting to hear different views , and yet we all agreed that it was the people with whom we shared our home that mattered most . |
| 24 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 25 | He stood the boxes side by side and then realised that they were the same size . |
| 26 | When she peered closer to read the inscriptions she realised that they were the spoils from Marc 's career — rewards for his many years as an international racing driver . |
| 27 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 28 | A pale blue light puzzled him for a moment , until he realised that it was the Calor gas stove in the galley . |
| 29 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 30 | I then went on to think about who had clipped Secretary of State Samson 's golden locks and , once again , I realised that it was the right hon. Member for Finchley . |