Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To them he was the same rough dog , running into the room with wet paws to be disparaged . |
| 2 | And in fact er one My brother next to n to me I was the middle of them I was the youngest boy . |
| 3 | It seemed to me it were the type of place you could sit and do your knitting . |
| 4 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
| 5 | It was n't exactly a naturalist 's dream , but to me it was the Great Outdoors , an unexplored wilderness . |
| 6 | He 's something he 's , he 's , he 's some , something to do with er with er , with the area and erm , and he 's coming up for the high week group some time in the next , little while , and I said to him you were the group 's |
| 7 | When he slept there , as he occasionally did in the classroom on the ground floor known for some mysterious reason as the ‘ Remove ’ , he could hear the trains run past the end of the garden and to him it was the most romantic sound in the world . |
| 8 | Then I caught on to what it was the guy was saying . |
| 9 | All he did was throw up a question mark — was Britain doing the right thing ? — but to us it was the first sign that someone out there thought that government strategy might be wrong . |