Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country . |
| 2 | There is a story , apocryphal no doubt , told by his friends that Bernard , having decided it was time for another move , walked into the offices of a prestigious estate agents one Saturday to see what was available . |
| 3 | I must admit , I ca n't claim it was love at first sight , but within a couple of hours she had firmly established herself in my affections , ’ laughed Delia . |
| 4 | I had thought that builders built houses when they thought they thought they could sell them , I did n't realize it was part of some altruistic policy of complying with planning policy , still we learn everything every day , do n't we ? |
| 5 | Little point in saying he was godfather to one of them . |
| 6 | Doing about sixty , seventy , normal speed , in hurry to get somewhere and er I I just sat there and erm all of a sudden I I thought I was miles past this other car and I started going in , just to let him go past , obviously and he 's I I did n't realise this other car was keeping up with me and I 've gone towards it and I thought sh I 'd looked in my mirror shit it 's still there ! |
| 7 | I thought they was pears at first and I got excited , cos I like pears , but they was n't . |
| 8 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
| 9 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity , and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I knew it was sight at first love . |
| 10 | Well , I thought it was kind of nice , it did n't ruin my life . ’ |
| 11 | Oh I thought it was Liam at first . |
| 12 | I thought it was quarter past eight |
| 13 | ‘ I thought he was kind of cute . ’ |
| 14 | Mmm , smooth on the outside , but do nt you think it was sort of heavy and sweaty ? ? |
| 15 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 16 | I only hoped I was part of that plan . |
| 17 | you know she said she was sort of level three plus when she did that |
| 18 | She had been right to say it was people like that who do terrible things , and if Timothy Gedge did do terrible things it would not be because he was different and exotic but because he was possessed of an urge to become so . |
| 19 | all the children went there , I said it was kind of insulting was n't it ? |
| 20 | He said it was quarter to four , ten to four . |
| 21 | At the Department of Health they said it was Department of Social Security matter . |
| 22 | ‘ Mother Francis said it was sort of serious , my own place , my inheritance she calls it . |
| 23 | The child was right when she said it was people like that who did terrible things . |
| 24 | Dr Hendron said it was time for political talks to be re-activated . |