Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone agreed it was a fine picture , a breezy blend of wit and taste . |
| 2 | oh , they may of been updated then , the question I asked you was a different one , when was the moment when they became inaccurate ? |
| 3 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 4 | ‘ I went into analysis because I realised I was a dangerous character — I mean this suicidal , self-destructive instinct I had . |
| 5 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
| 6 | The job I found him was an undemanding clerical one . |
| 7 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 8 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 9 | ‘ I assumed it was the deliberate policy of an amateur sport towards a ‘ public service ’ . ’ |
| 10 | I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy . |
| 11 | I learnt he was an old seaman who kept an inn , and he knew all the seamen in Bristol . |
| 12 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 13 | Possibly someone assumed it was a concentrated form of oxygen , and therefore invigorating . |
| 14 | From the foam on it I guessed it was the first out of the keg that evening . |
| 15 | I guessed it was the bald man 's son . |
| 16 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 17 | ‘ Christ , ’ breathed Billy , ‘ you were lucky there mate , that was a pretty big un' for a night tide , I heard it was a twenty seven footer . |
| 18 | Yeah I heard it were a right frigging had an argument with Chinese bloke |
| 19 | And I decided it was a successful briefing , you know . |
| 20 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |
| 21 | I decided it was a good time to ask him the final questions about Stapleton and the hound . |
| 22 | We started a bit shaky , and took a while to adjust , but in the end we could have added to our tally , by which time I felt we were the better side . ’ |
| 23 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 24 | On another occasion , and because I felt he was a remote figure of whom the public knew nothing , I asked if he would be guest at an off-the-record private dinner-party to which I would invite half a dozen senior media people such as Robin Day , Perry Worsthorne of the Sunday Telegraph , and Tony Howard of the Observer for an exchange of views . |
| 25 | I felt he was an undesirable character . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |
| 27 | I felt it was a nice earner all the time and now , in hindsight , I wish we had n't frittered the money away so easily . |
| 28 | He said that ‘ Every player has their price , if the offer were 2M Id have rejected it , but as it nudged 3M I felt it was a good deal for Leeds ’ . |
| 29 | He said that ‘ Every player has their price , if the offer were 2M Id have rejected it , but as it nudged 3M I felt it was a good deal for Leeds ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I felt it was a Christian thing to do . |