Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second question that I asked was : ‘ Why had the widow got into the situation she was in ? ’ |
| 2 | Another question I asked was how Bill learnt his gardening skills . |
| 3 | Animals always came first — every book I read was about them . ’ |
| 4 | The full title was not visible but what I read was , ‘ Paint along with — ’ Whom , I have been asking myself since . |
| 5 | Well , erm I think the first novel of George Eliot that I read was Adam Bede , and I think that that 's actually quite a good starting point . |
| 6 | I 'd love to be a record success again , but the last LP I made was so bloody personal it was ludicrous : you ca n't write songs about those you love , your children , and expect other people to buy them … |
| 7 | I know some people might think the decision I made was unpleasant and monstrous but I want to tell how I came to make the decision and the reasons behind it . |
| 8 | ‘ The biggest mistake I made was to start playing professional golf so early , ’ he explains . |
| 9 | I BELIEVE the decision I made was commonsense — the right one in the circumstances . |
| 10 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 11 | Though what came into my mind when I realized was n't Cogito , ergo sum . |
| 12 | The first thing I realised was that I liked her . |
| 13 | In Vienna , what was most distinctive was the type of bourgeois identity , which I argued was a ‘ baroque ’ identity , largely conditioned , as Carl Schorske noted , by the salient presence of a Catholic court nobility . |
| 14 | And then there was another sound which I did n't like to think about at all , but which I presumed was Jack Scamp hailing his last London cab . |
| 15 | The part of the convent in which I lived was called the noviceship . |
| 16 | The block in which I lived was no different from the others in that tight area of mean dilapidated streets . |
| 17 | The first Star printer I owned was a 80-column thermal machine that was connected to an Osborne 01 CP/M machine . |
| 18 | Another lady that I met was suffering from the elephant man 's disease ; her husband had recently died and she was expecting a baby . |
| 19 | The first man I met was an old fellow sitting on the church wall smoking a pipe . |
| 20 | What I met was Cleese in full flow , with nothing to sell — no film gale force imminent , no series , no book , nothing but a mind primed after a sabbatical which had been deliberately aimed at reflection . |
| 21 | The Wirral club have members from all age groups - from babies to pensioners - although the average age of the group I met was early 40s . |
| 22 | The other interesting runner I rode was Auntie Dot , particularly as she has the advantage of being schooled over a National-type fence on her trainer John Webber 's gallops . |
| 23 | The very ecosystem I inhabited was also to be one of products , striving against built-in obsolescence to individuate themselves , using whatever human means were at their disposal to advance their branded species . |
| 24 | what I lacked was a foreign accent , almond eyes , straight or springy black hair , a black skin , a muscular physique , a mind full of difficult alphabets , a sense of rhythm , a pitiful history of slavery and oppression , and a massive member — though not necessarily in that order . |
| 25 | The other factor I checked was where the recording studio was situated and how long it would take me to reach by car . |
| 26 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 27 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |
| 28 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
| 29 | What I got was a group of men who ranged from those with a more developed line on women 's issues than mine to those who were frankly misogynistic , and a woman who went on record as saying that , in her opinion , feminism put women off being lesbians . |
| 30 | I promised that his further education would be no burden to them , and that after the war , I would see to it that he received a free college education , which should not be denied him , but all I got was ‘ You take ‘ im , Mr Burton , you take ‘ im . ’ |