Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first car I bought was the new Ford Anglia at Skippers , Darlington for just £500 . |
| 2 | ‘ Pray tell Dr Heatherton that I called , ’ he said , but all the reply he received was the same cold , formal bow the daughter had made . |
| 3 | The conference ( a triennial meeting scheduled between NAM summits ) took place in the context of the effective ending of the " Cold War " , the issue which had been the immediate stimulus for the original formation of the Non-aligned Movement in 1961 . |
| 4 | He spent most of his spare time up at Skiplam , where the girl he courted was the only child of a wealthy farmer . |
| 5 | Man-made fibres and plastic sheeting have long since replaced the porous cambric or fine cotton linen which had been the standard material for sails over seven decades . |
| 6 | The greatest danger we found was the distinct possibility of repetitive overeating . |
| 7 | The point they selected was the western extremity of the Verdun salient , between the villages of Malancourt and Avocourt , where the front swung south through the tip of the Forest of Hesse . |
| 8 | The name he called was the inevitable name . |
| 9 | On their walk back it had been the dark shadows she 'd found unnerving . |
| 10 | For a start she had been the only woman , and her colleagues had found it strange that she should be working with them . |
| 11 | Was it not his father who had been the prime agent in advocating the educational route to success ? |
| 12 | The teachers at Howard were given government grants for their work but the money they received was the standard Salvation Army allowance . |
| 13 | Later , as they strolled on neat walkways and over pretty Oriental stone bridges , Luke 's mood grew more relaxed , so Maria reintroduced the subject which had been the initial cause of their earlier conflict . |
| 14 | The young , nervous and over-eager man who 'd been the first of her assignments for Charlie . |
| 15 | Two of the men now hoisted her up , and when she was seated in the chair she slowly opened her eyes , and the first thing she saw was the great broad face of Betty Felton . |
| 16 | The first thing she saw was the fresh blood staining his sleeve . |
| 17 | The first thing she saw was the white dog , back from its stroll , seated on a rag rug in front of a two-bar electric fire , beating its tail leisurely yet rhythmically … thump … thumppp … in time to the slow , pulsing beat of the air on the fiddle . |
| 18 | However we , the next thing we knew was the flying bombs began to come over . |
| 19 | Or the second model they gave was the special constable either a newly recruited special or a person who is an existing special to work in the in the parish . |
| 20 | And every single thing they found was the same . |
| 21 | The first film I saw was The Great Caruso , starring Mario Lanza . |
| 22 | Then he left the room and went to find the nurse who had been the unworthy recipient of his evil temper . |
| 23 | Around the turn of the century there had been the great triumvirate of Braid , Vardon , and Taylor but American dominance was established between the wars in the shape of Walter Hagen , who won the Open four times , and Gene Sarazen . |
| 24 | No doubt there 'd been the usual spate of Friday night burglaries , too . |
| 25 | And yet , encouragingly ( for fiction as well as for herself ) , she proved able to rise again : she became the established mistress of a cavalry officer , and by the time she died was the legal wife of an admiral . |
| 26 | The dissident who had been the first to speak to Holly talked the hesitant monologue of revolution . |
| 27 | Each random spot she tried was the same . |
| 28 | In fact she had been the powerful sustaining force for as long as he could remember . |
| 29 | For once , Leeds actually got major coverage ( the last time we did was the 4–0 defeat to Norwich ) . |
| 30 | After the Elizabethan conquest there had been the usual influx of people wanting land , but the landlords of the traditional type had been supplemented by London-based land-holding companies and also by peasant emigrants from Scotland . |