Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But you have come , I am told , became we are the first place on earth to get the dawn . |
| 32 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 33 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 34 | All that betrayed her was the slight tremor in the hand holding her wineglass . |
| 35 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
| 36 | I figured it was the best way to keep the interaction between the guitar and the lyrics , which is the whole point for me . |
| 37 | Poor Relief When all else failed there was the Poor Law . |
| 38 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 39 | ‘ He swore it was the genuine cross . |
| 40 | What concerned her was the strange attitude of Gioella . |
| 41 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 42 | At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it . |
| 43 | How comforting to read Gill Rowley 's Pet-Hate List ( YWTU , October GH ) about the check-out trolley pushers — I always thought I was the only person in the world who wanted to reverse , screaming hysterically , ‘ Get back ! ’ |
| 44 | I thought I was the bad girl , but everybody else was doing exactly the same . |
| 45 | I always thought I was the philandering type , but my mind keeps going back to her . |
| 46 | Then , she dreamed she was the Great Crocodile in the Moon . |
| 47 | Before Eva had time to do a mental check list of any way that she or the students at the ICO might have offended , General Wiseman informed her that he felt she was the right person to take over leadership of the women 's social services . |
| 48 | He also had a copy of Gauguin 's Avant et Après which recounted the episode in the Yellow House from Gauguin 's point of view , patronising , complacent in its nervousness , making sure the world knew who was the great painter , the great influence , the major man . |
| 49 | When I saw you , I knew you were the ideal person to share with , and I 've never regretted it . ’ |
| 50 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |
| 51 | I thought she was the cleaning woman first of all . ’ |
| 52 | The constituency that chose you was the Conservative party . |
| 53 | We started a bit shaky , and took a while to adjust , but in the end we could have added to our tally , by which time I felt we were the better side . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ And while we felt we were the best team in England , we were killed by our own success . |
| 55 | We played magnificently and I thought we were the better side . ’ |
| 56 | Brugge coach Hugo Broos bemoaned Nisbet 's goal and said : ‘ I thought we were the better team . ’ |
| 57 | Wester Ross , Orkney and North Wales , the areas where one felt there was the strongest community spirit , supported the role of wives . |
| 58 | They all supported an increased budget , which meant they were the ONLY county capped by the Government for spending too much . |
| 59 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 60 | ‘ I thought they were the only party that could rule Namibia . |