Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I put them in , and I look in my dictionary , they 're not there of course , cos my dictionary I had is from nineteen forty six |
| 2 | The piece I did is on one side , and on the other is a piece by The Kronos Quartet , called Different Trains . ’ |
| 3 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 4 | ‘ But the child you abducted was of six years of age and although the period of abduction was short and the child came to no harm , this was a crime , particularly now , of the most serious kind . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 6 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
| 7 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 8 | One of the places we used was in such a state of unrepair that every time it rained we had to put out buckets everywhere just to keep our feet dry . ’ |
| 9 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 10 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |
| 11 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 12 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 13 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 14 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 15 | At least , all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like this , so I presumed it was normal . |
| 16 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 17 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 18 | ‘ The first film I did was with these other guys who were a little camera shy , ’ recalls Rod , who has appeared in a number of Sara 's group sex films . |
| 19 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 20 | That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember . |
| 21 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 22 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 23 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 24 | Although the history of Scotmid is very much of local interest , the carriages they collected are of national importance . |
| 25 | ‘ The impression they created was of two young men , very smart , well-spoken , trading high-value stones for far too much money , ’ Mr Curtis told the jury . |
| 26 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
| 27 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |