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Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [pron] [vb past] to " in BNC.

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1	She would stay , here where things were what they seemed to be , where trees were trees , hens were hens .
2	Set against these were what he took to be the essential strengths and cultural possibilities of the German spirit , which in recent generations — and most clearly in the age of Goethe — had been partially realized and whose full realization was an ever-present dream .
3	That were what she said to her that day and she says to you , if you carry on I 'm gon na have you put in that orphan 's home .
4	Especially when it was me he turned to , me he called darling . ’
5	I do n't know what happened , but over the years it was me who came to the band 's aid when it was needed .
6	All I knew about him was that he was someone who belonged to Jean-Claude 's past , and that Jean-Claude was indebted to him .
7	He was shrewd enough to appreciate that here was someone who needed to be coaxed , not coerced .
8	It was you who jumped to the conclusion .
9	When her younger brother was being bullied it was she who leapt to his defence and up-ended his tormentor in a matter of seconds .
10	If this stranger was who he claimed to be , he supposed he 'd better do as he was told .
11	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 .
12	We may have been poor and ignorant in Glasgow but ratting on our friends was something we left to the narks , the narks and the prosperous classes .
13	Chemistry in the first half of the century was something which had to be learned by medical students , often without much pleasure ; they had to have formal if elementary courses of lectures , and textbooks .
14	Where Chartier went further was in asking whether nobility was something which came to a man by virtue of his birth ( and could therefore be inherited ) or whether it was accorded in recognition of merit ?
15	The idea of ‘ Napoleonism ’ , that is , the concept of the Emperor as a phenomenon of history and therefore politically dead , was one which appealed to the conservative strata of French society , which were glad to remember the glory the Emperor had given to France but had no wish to see him re-embodied .
16	The decision to introduce a television channel financed by advertising was one which had to be taken by government .
17	There was one which came to me from America which said , ‘ Alan Bates plays his part in a style which makes Bela Lugosi seem a master of nuance . ’
18	An undertaker was one who contracted to ‘ undertake ’ a drainage scheme ; an ‘ adventurer ’ was one who ‘ adventured ’ his capital on such an undertaking .
19	My sister , Violet , was one she coached to that standard but she was n't able to take her place at grammar school because the uniform she had to have was beyond the means of my family .
20	The Cheltenham course was one he completed to the College 's satisfaction , and as he left as a qualified master his first thought was to return home to North London , at least for the time being .
21	After all , it was they who tended to be the main victims of burglary , assault , and other forms of violent crime .
22	Was it we went to ?
23	Who was it who went to China ?
24	Cos , who was it who said to me are you taping us ?
25	‘ What was it you said to him after dinner ? ’
26	You want water from , where was it I said to you ?
27	‘ What was it he said to you ? ’ he asked .
28	He looked twice at the hurrying man , but decided that , like the others , he was what he seemed to be .
29	That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions .
30	That was what he meant to Luke Thackray , her son , who was to sleep in the kitchen so that the " candidate " might have the privacy of his tiny but spotless room .