Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was to heal them was the act of obedience to what God had said , and faith in what he had said . |
| 2 | His reaction on seeing them was a surprise to himself , and a shock to them . |
| 3 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 4 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 5 | As we have seen the Prague School were also interested in the content of texts as well as their language , but what concerned them was the structure of the content as a self-contained system of signs to be separated out into its different levels , not the overall impression that it conveys . |
| 6 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 7 | It was a position of strange intimacy ; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world . |
| 8 | ALL THAT WAS GIVEN ME WAS THE MATTER OF THREE SCENES , AND THE CENTRAL IDEA OF A VOLUNTARY CHANGE BECOMING INVOLUNTARY . |
| 9 | Did you think I was a burglar ? |
| 10 | Did you think I was a ghost ? |
| 11 | Did you think I was a virgin ? |
| 12 | If I did n't have long hair , everyone would think I was a boy . |
| 13 | ‘ Would n't they think I was a telltale ? ’ |
| 14 | In other words they would think I was a slag . |
| 15 | Ye would think I was a dog , ’ he said , ‘ the way she looks at me . ’ |
| 16 | If I did n't know Karen I should think I was the candidate for diabetes . |
| 17 | ‘ We all grew up with American films , but looking like me there was no way on earth that people would think I was an actor . |
| 18 | ‘ We all grew up with American films , but looking like me there was no way on earth that people would think I was an actor . |
| 19 | The heads of these charming horsemen are so like that of the boxer that one might think his was the stele this base supported . |
| 20 | She then realised I was no fool . |
| 21 | ‘ I got out of breath drying myself after a bath and I realised I was a bit overweight , ’ said Mervin , who now tips the scales at just over eight stones ! |
| 22 | He made doubly sure I realised I was an outcast in a heavy-handed way — and he could n't get rid of me fast enough . |
| 23 | I , I mean I was a bit disappointed yesterday cos it was a good do |
| 24 | Erm if you just liken it , I mean I was a beat officer here for eight years and the sorts of things that you 'd come on duty erm to see , are you may , you might get the nutty woman , who who er , you reoccur and you have to go and see her and you ge , erm , but all the shift members can then pass that to the beat officer . |
| 25 | Glenn , who has one daughter and two grand-daughters , said he was very impressed with the NHS but thinks his was a case of being in the right place at the right time . |
| 26 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 27 | Little did I know I was a fool slipping into danger and the black shadow of Benjamin 's great-uncle would soon trap me . |
| 28 | Some people say I was a fool and could have made a fortune . |
| 29 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 30 | I pretended I was the photographer and she pretended she was the writer . |