Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she realized I was a good thief and knew how to use a knife , she got to like me . |
| 2 | But it was of no avail , and as the time passed I was the unwilling witness of the gradual transition from heartiness to silence , then to something like panic . |
| 3 | ‘ I went into analysis because I realised I was a dangerous character — I mean this suicidal , self-destructive instinct I had . |
| 4 | You 'd only let me make love to you that night because you realised I was a better bet than Peter . |
| 5 | When I arrived I found I was the only newspaperman so involved , and Mains had his men out on the main field . |
| 6 | I found I was the only woman in the upstairs room of the Albert in Kings Cross , listening to a man in a leather jacket giving an introductory talk which seemed to assume that we were all men . |
| 7 | Does he recall that last time this occurred there was an immediate leap forward in terms of killing ? |
| 8 | I preferred to cross the ferry to the hotel on the other side , and found there was a spare bed though not a spare room . |
| 9 | He found there was no real difference between Santiago marginals and those in higher strata in a cultural way , that is , they shared the same values and aspirations , but the squatters were unable to realise these because of structural features . |
| 10 | I was very impressed by the volume and depth of sound from such a small cab , and although there 's not the power to cover a very large stage , I found there was no great loss in tone when standing to the side of the amp — a problem with some larger rigs . |
| 11 | As well as the points mentioned there are the usual claims for Latin that it improves competence in English , facilitates the learning of other languages and so on . |
| 12 | When Edward abdicated there was an immediate crisis . |
| 13 | And also you 'll like it because the cardinal who designed it was a practical joker and built in all sorts of extremely infantile jokes so that he could spray water onto his innocent friends while they were eating their dinner or trying to watch little masques . |
| 14 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 15 | Sandy Island is incredible — just two miles out from Sandy Ground it is a tiny mound of dazzling white sand with room for ten coconut trees and a bar run by Neville and his friends . |
| 16 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 17 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 18 | But she found it was a different school with different faces . |
| 19 | When it came to her turn to scramble ashore , she found it was no easy task to move the balance beam which swung the gates open . |
| 20 | She paced the garden ; she found it was an exact square . |
| 21 | I suppose what you told me was the whole truth ? ’ |
| 22 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 23 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 24 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 25 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 26 | I assumed I was the senior man but one of my mates , a very good pal of mine to me , a senior shunter , he says , Oh you 'll get the job , they 'll be wanting to get rid of you Jimmy . |
| 27 | Any QDM received which is a larger figure than the desired track QDM means that you are to the right of your track . |
| 28 | It is now easy to see that any QDM received which is a smaller figure than the desired track QDM means that you are to the left of your track . |
| 29 | But a nice idea , yeah , he 's saying before long tens of thousands of schools will have sprung up in the villages throughout the province erm and that , that basically the peasants like the old style schools which is basically a Chinese way of teaching as opposed to erm the education which the landlords received which is the foreign school and he 's saying how when he was a student erm you know he used to think that the foreign style schools were groovy er but has now realized that actually , you know , being , I mean |
| 30 | He did n't treat you with disrespect — he just assumed you were a mere mortal like the rest of us . |