Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 2 | The next climb that attracted us was The Magic Line on El Gorro Frigio — a large dome higher up the massif . |
| 3 | The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty . |
| 4 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 5 | All that betrayed her was the slight tremor in the hand holding her wineglass . |
| 6 | The constituency that chose you was the Conservative party . |
| 7 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
| 8 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 9 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 10 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 11 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 12 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 13 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 14 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 15 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 16 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 17 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 18 | They all fancied him and thought he was the handsomest boy they had ever seen … . ’ |
| 19 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
| 20 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 21 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |
| 22 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 23 | I laughed and said I was the same when I was young . |
| 24 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |