Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] [was/were] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked what was the oldest part of the farm and was shown a flagstone path leading down to a valley . |
| 2 | I asked which were the smallest , and she picked out the three shortest ones quickly . |
| 3 | I asked which were the next tallest and she picked out the only two of the next size . |
| 4 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 5 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
| 6 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 7 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 8 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 9 | I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy . |
| 10 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 11 | I 've just been up to the Wembley exhibition of word processor , and one of the things I noticed there was the increasing number of processors and packages which I think you would describe as friendly or at least semi-friendly to , to help people . |
| 12 | From the foam on it I guessed it was the first out of the keg that evening . |
| 13 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
| 14 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 15 | We started a bit shaky , and took a while to adjust , but in the end we could have added to our tally , by which time I felt we were the better side . ’ |
| 16 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
| 18 | I could see , and I knew what was the appropriate emotional response to , say , a beautiful day , but I could n't feel it . |
| 19 | When I saw you , I knew you were the ideal person to share with , and I 've never regretted it . ’ |
| 20 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 21 | I knew it was the one Henry wanted back . |
| 22 | But I knew it would work , I knew it was the perfect register for it ; it was just a question of the right tonality and the right feeling . |
| 23 | " I knew it was the same for you ; that made it worse . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew it was the same family , ’ he admitted . |
| 25 | I had seen Come Blow Your Horn and kept my eye on what he was up to , and I knew he was the right person for that part . |
| 26 | The one I saw it was the same plain . |
| 27 | He 's always sending her flowers — and last time I looked she was the only one on his list who got an ‘ A ’ . |
| 28 | We played magnificently and I thought we were the better side . ’ |
| 29 | Brugge coach Hugo Broos bemoaned Nisbet 's goal and said : ‘ I thought we were the better team . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I thought they were the only party that could rule Namibia . |