Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [conj] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , I told him that was the only part that was hurting and he looked at it and said did n't |
| 2 | All she wanted to do was to snuggle close to him , but waves of resentment coming from Dana told her that was the last thing she could do . |
| 3 | Even I recognised it as being the flamboyant colours of the Marylebone Cricket Club . |
| 4 | I certainly never pictured it as being the same operation acting on different pieces until I actually saw it happening on the cube . |
| 5 | For instance , the lavatory at Calverley General never struck him as being the same lavatory as he had entered last week , month or year , but always generically as " the " or " a " lavatory . |