Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pers pn] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some said it was the happiest day of their long lives . |
| 2 | But the managers I played for all said I was the best professional . |
| 3 | There was immediate uproar and they all said it was the other batsman who was out . |
| 4 | When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ . |
| 5 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |