Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [pers pn] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah because you go to be the eldest and then just at the time you should of gone on and become the youngest , it changed so you were the eldest all the time |
2 | and then I found out it was the back door key |
3 | When the voice came back it was the full robot job — an awful , grating sound . |
4 | When they wrestled together he was the stronger ; he sent his arrows further and more accurately ; but when they ran races barefooted across the rabbit-bitten turf it was she with her long skinny legs and flying hair who left him far behind . |
5 | One amusing thing was that after all my worry about dress it turned out I was the overdressed character for everyday he wore a different combination of tee shirt and jeans while I wore my neat school uniform . |
6 | He caught him and it turned out it was the assistant chief constable 's son . |
7 | Because I thought perhaps it was the same with me . |
8 | I do n't think he did so it 's the only one you missed out , probably find the the video that 's not , not applicable but yeah . |
9 | She remembered when she was the only child at home , playing with her dolls on the rag rug before the fire and listening to the purring of the kettle on the hob , her mother singing as she worked in the back kitchen , waiting for the others to come home . |
10 | Sarah said once it was the same wi ’ her . ’ |
11 | They thought that Goibniu was looking happy ( although it was always difficult to tell with giants ) and thought , was n't it a fine old thing to see how well the designs were being received and was n't it great , altogether , to see how well received the Oakapple 's sketches were , because had n't he been the guiding light behind most of the work ? |
12 | Well this is what she said ju just now , yeah well not just now , earlier on , she said about getting out there and I said well I 'm sure it 's that place she said well it 's the only one out there that she could think of . |
13 | and he said well it was the least I could do under the circumstance . |
14 | For the first time in recent years , payments to producers showed no increase , at 20.2p/litre , although Mr Howie pointed out it was the best figure among the five UK boards . |