Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had felt that I could n't cope with him , I probably would have had him adopted , or had an abortion , but it was my choice to have him . |
| 2 | It was my plan to get one though . |
| 3 | ‘ It was my idea asking you . |
| 4 | It was my idea to bring it along . |
| 5 | It was my turn to narrow my eyes . |
| 6 | fish to me was my mother making me sit at a |
| 7 | 'Cos he took them boots and it was my job to take them to the big house for the gentleman . ’ |
| 8 | It was my job to bury her in the church . |
| 9 | The jeweller did n't know what it was my father showed him . |
| 10 | It was my father threw me out . ’ |
| 11 | It was my intention to spend my time there simply painting the landscape and I wanted to work with strong colour on a large scale . |
| 12 | ‘ It — hmm — never was my intention to take you on the couch in my drawing-room , ’ he commented gruffly , purposely putting some daylight between them . |
| 13 | ONE particularly strange aspect of Charles and Diana 's public announcement was their decision to deliver it while their children were still in school . |
| 14 | When it was their turn to pose they were true professionals . |
| 15 | It was their duty to permit themselves a swift handshake and a kindly word to those , less august than themselves , whose long evenings on the ‘ knocker ’ , canvassing for the party , sustained them in the political positions to which they had become all too easily accustomed . |
| 16 | Now was her chance to let him see the image of herself that everyone else saw . |
| 17 | ‘ Look , if you knew my gran , you 'd know why I 'm so certain about this , ’ she said earnestly , knowing this was her chance to persuade him . |
| 18 | She could surrender because it was her knight kissing her . |
| 19 | And perhaps most important of all was her ability to take whatever was sustaining and useful to her in the mid-nineteenth century 's version of ‘ womanliness ’ and ‘ domesticity ’ and to reject those elements which stifled , maimed and , sometimes literally , maddened other women . |
| 20 | A-To-Z is game if nothing else , and it was her will to win which enabled her to get home by three-quarters of a length from the Michael Stoute-trained Perfect Circle , with Soiree running on well , a further length away third . |
| 21 | What what was her name do you remember , before she got married ? |
| 22 | She told him that it was her intention to make her maiden speech at the conference . |
| 23 | The most likely explanation was her offer to buy him dinner in return for the loan of the flat . |
| 24 | I do n't think it was her mother to tell you the truth . |
| 25 | It was her place to tell him — ’ |
| 26 | When Mussolini took over in Italy , Anna decided that it was her duty to make her protest on Italian soil as an Italian citizen ( a not too vulnerable one for the time being , but she tried her best ) . |
| 27 | It was her duty to tell me — a ‘ mother 's duty ’ — that my obstinate refusal to comply with Jean-Claude 's wishes meant I was becoming a burden to him . |
| 28 | Was her brother to do it , Jan , he does a bit of really . |
| 29 | She also knew that it was her priority to get her father , physically impaired since his stroke , down the aisle . |
| 30 | She had to do it , because it was her nature to do it . |