Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] was 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 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
3 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
6 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | From the foam on it I guessed it was the first out of the keg that evening . |
11 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
12 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
13 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
14 | I could see , and I knew what was the appropriate emotional response to , say , a beautiful day , but I could n't feel it . |
15 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
16 | I knew it was the one Henry wanted back . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | " I knew it was the same for you ; that made it worse . |
19 | ‘ I knew it was the same family , ’ he admitted . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The one I saw it was the same plain . |
22 | He 's always sending her flowers — and last time I looked she was the only one on his list who got an ‘ A ’ . |
23 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |
24 | I thought she was the cleaning woman first of all . ’ |
25 | I thought she was the tasty one as well . |
26 | I thought it was the other church , the one near the market , and I waited there till a quarter to twelve , and then I realized my mistake . |
27 | It 's lovely I thought it was the real thing . |
28 | Well I thought it was the forced |
29 | think it was this I thought it was the small |
30 | I wanted to run it because I thought it was the only way we stood a chance . |