Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First two cases I took were missing persons . |
| 2 | The words you spoke were frenzied prayers |
| 3 | The companies I mentioned are important acquisitions . ’ |
| 4 | When Marian was first appointed as Circuit Judge nearly all the cases she heard were criminal cases but now her work is predominantly civil . |
| 5 | For years he had been close friends with Kevin McCarthy and his wife . |
| 6 | One of the first things he found was that golf is not something that can be watched that closely . |
| 7 | Among the priorities he identified were human rights in Africa , continental integration , the situations in Liberia , Somalia and South Africa , and the prevention and management of further conflicts . |
| 8 | Among the priorities he identified were human rights in Africa , continental integration , the situations in Liberia , Somalia and South Africa , and the prevention and management of further conflicts . |
| 9 | A UN spokesman returning from the town of Zepa , which was reached on Sunday , said bodies he saw were all women and children , not soldiers . |
| 10 | The watercolours I used were raw sienna , French ultramarine and Indian red , which produced a series of slate greys and browns to match the London brick . |
| 11 | One of the girls I taught was this girl Hilda Syms , and she got a crush on me . |
| 12 | Among the courses I took were Old English , Middle English , Old Norse , English Philology , and Phonetics ( this last course was taught by and , who were among the senior teachers in the Phonetics Department of U.C.L. at that time ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The contributors we had are all kind of double-0-seven , cloak-and-dagger types ’ , explained Krishna Littledale , one of the enticers of funds ; ‘ … if you talk very quietly and tell them they ca n't tell anyone about this conference , they will give you a lot more money . ’ |
| 14 | The first three of the boots I tested are all fabric ( Cordura ) , reinforced with varying amounts of suede and fitted with a Gore-Tex bootie . |
| 15 | The ones I liked were polished walnut but they were eigh |
| 16 | All the other literary women he knew were old bags of whom he would be bitterly ashamed . |
| 17 | The jobs they held were either evening/weekend ones ( and so part-time ) or vacation ones . |