Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 2 | If I was Madonna I would probably have shown it to you . |
| 3 | The first the first half a year that I was Holland I I do n't think I was away for a holiday , but then the the next Summer then I was away . |
| 4 | Miss Jeanette told Teesside Crown Court : ‘ As a policeman came across Darren said ‘ If he asks where I was say I was with you . ’ ’ |
| 5 | I was suspect they the same problem with France and Germany . |
| 6 | ‘ I was askin' yer mother , ’ he said , ‘ but she 's — ‘ |
| 7 | No I was trainee you you were teaching . |
| 8 | ‘ If I was Empress I would be a constitutional Empress only , ’ said Pakeezah , drawing herself up . |
| 9 | Well cos at er , there were n't enough tide to take it away , I mean you ta you get clay well that 's , that 's solid and the amount of stuff I was dredge they use and use it , now we 're not the only ones got it , they got people from Harwich , people from Felixstowe , they were all dumping out there . |
| 10 | She was charm itself . |
| 11 | She was Jonah I expect . |
| 12 | Bertha , of course , never went anywhere , but Rabbi Moishe sometimes wished his daughter-in-law had a little more — humanity ? no , no , he must n't judge — a little more inclination to mix with the other married women ; he respected his daughter-in-law , she was holiness itself , as frum as an angel , and as for housekeeping . |
| 13 | she was Mac something no I , no I tell you , I tell you what that reminds me of , you know the little , I do n't know if you do , if you walk along the canal towards Berkhamstead , by a lock |
| 14 | She was visitng her parents home and disturbed the thieves . |
| 15 | We w we was partnerships you see well when our place collapsed they carried on just carried on a bit because they were connected with Japan . |
| 16 | In front of him was Chernayev who had not practised his trade of thieving for seventeen years . |
| 17 | They was wiv 'im in the office fer over an hour . |
| 18 | In the days of his partnership with Tim Rice , it was Rice who took charge of the " front of house " publicity , handling the round of chat-shows and press interviews with a breezy and plausible charm . |
| 19 | It was Hua who gave the order for Jiang Qing and her associates to be arrested along with many of their supporters . |
| 20 | It was Artemesia who was tortured into proving that she was a virgin when she was raped and had to dispute all the ’ witnesses ’ brought in by Tassi who claimed that they had had Artemesia too . ’ |
| 21 | But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before . |
| 22 | They 'd only been beaten 3 times this season so you feared the worst , but it was Oxford who struck next ; another no goal , or no penalty , according to Kevin Keegan . |
| 23 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 24 | It was McFarlane who netted the vital goal on Saturday against Edinburgh Civil Service with only 26 seconds remaining . |
| 25 | It was Rune who broke the close embrace , lifting his head away , his hands still tender on her shoulders as he scanned her face , his own features harshly set . |
| 26 | Paul Reynolds held off the challenge of John McPherson to put Drumaness ahead seven minutes from half time and even though a Dunmurry effort was cleared off the line it was Drumaness who squandered the scoring chances in the first half . |
| 27 | Leeds battled fiercely with Whelan playing well up front , holding the ball and putting decent balls in the box a lot ( he came on for Rocky at half time ) but when we did get back in it it was Deano who was in the box and looking like scoring who got hauled down and the ref points to the spot . |
| 28 | It was Ryan who was trying to get permission — and yet Gwen had just said … and had n't Leo run out of the shop after Ryan ? |
| 29 | On one view , Professor Elton 's , the organization described in the Edwardian ordinances ‘ bore little relation to reality ’ ; it was Cromwell who gave concrete and lasting form to otherwise pious aspirations . |
| 30 | But it was Cromwell who remained the arch repository of true evil in the world , Cromwell who had persecuted Ireland so greatly as to overshadow even Queen Elizabeth who , vilifying Mary Stuart , had put her to a martyr 's death . |