Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Labour leader said that in her supposed splendid isolation from Europe , Margaret Thatcher showed she was from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy . |
| 2 | So when I saw James ( true story this ) in Sainsbury 's , I walked up to him , leered , banged him on the elbow with a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice and said , ‘ Tom Jones ! ’ because the last time I meet him was on the Tom Jones TV programme . |
| 3 | He claimed he was in the UK for a conference . |
| 4 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 5 | He declined to give any personal details about the pair apart from saying they were from the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | The first time I remember seeing her was in The Roebuck . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you was on the InterSpace payroll back then ? ’ |
| 8 | Jenking said he thought they were on the Dean and that they would soon beat over it into deeper water . |
| 9 | Even if displaced through three time zones eastwards , it would still infer it was over the Atlantic , and home in the wrong direction . |
| 10 | and half of it is rubbish and decent rubbish and that 's rubbish there it is I knew it was in here somewhere I knew I thought it was in the Prima they gave it to you but obviously it was erm in Essentials everything out of there do n't think they had many Christmas You used to was it you , you see you can make your own , was it you that we went up to town that time and brought those erm from John Lewis the round |
| 11 | ‘ In fact I always thought he was in the DTI . |
| 12 | According to a book by Sunday Times journalists , an SAS soldier posed as the ex-UDR man after security forces learned he was on the IRA 's hit list . |
| 13 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 14 | The plot is complicated even by Agatha Christie standards , but putting it as simply as possible , Mr Smith said a report had never been produced , Mr Major interrupted to say it was in the Commons library , the Labour MP Tam Dalyell said what was there was not a report at all and Tristan Garel-Jones , the Euro Minister , said it sort of was . |
| 15 | He said he was with a US Army unit that met the Soviet soldiers who had captured the German fuhrer 's bunker in April 1945 . |
| 16 | He said he was from the Harrow Road Station but had only recently been transferred there from West End Central . |
| 17 | Most of the time Harry was playing for Crystal Palace we were a Third Division club and so it is not surprising that most of the great achievements to which he helped to take us were in the FA Cup . |
| 18 | He came to the door , said he was standing as a candidate , but did n't say he was from the BNP . |