Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course there was a very large element of luck involved , but unless or until something better came along it was the only option she had . |
| 2 | All I ever got from 'im was the back of 'is 'and . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps it was too confining for his poetic mind for he said of it , ‘ The only good I ever got from it was the memory of the words ‘ sonus disilientis aquae ’ and the old wall covered with weeds opposite the school windows ’ . |
| 4 | But the nearest thing Americans ever had to it was the Kennedys . |
| 5 | All she ever had from him was the biting lash of his tongue . |