Example sentences of "[adj] be [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 2 | This is what made them 'special " . |
| 3 | Both campaigns struggled , I believe that this was what made them different from the rest of the fleet . |
| 4 | I reckon that 's what made me ill , it 's your fault . |
| 5 | Your mother presumably , who forced you to do that , was happier than you were about it happening , and that 's what made you sad . |
| 6 | ( It was also , of course , disgusting and deplorable : that 's what made it such a success . ) |
| 7 | To Richard , it was always the deal ; that 's what got him excited . |
| 8 | That 's what left him open to what she was going to do to him . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's what kept me awake last night — facing up to the fact that my behaviour , anyway as far as you were concerned , was as devious and manipulative as anything that William Ash could come up with . |
| 10 | And mum always used to say that 's what gave you that hernia that walking all the way for food ! |
| 11 | I think that 's what started it all off I think she 's running off . |
| 12 | But maybe that was what made them different from him . |
| 13 | This was not snoring but a kind of clicking , irregular and sporadic — that was what made it irritating — and liable to start when least expected . |
| 14 | We found it hard at times , but my players showed character and that was what earned them both points . ’ |