Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend .
2 Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing .
3 She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin .
4 This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs !
5 It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before .
6 I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community
7 Blacks would have been better off now if , after being shipped to America in chains , they had been allowed the same freedom to prosper as willing immigrants were .
8 She was born when they had been married a few years .
9 It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs .
10 Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years .
11 But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same .
12 It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids .
13 ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’
14 When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’
15 This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price .
16 He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter .
17 When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships .
  Next page