Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [be] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believed she was one hundred percent right . |
| 2 | A roadside breath test showed he was 2 1/2 times over the legal alcohol limit . |
| 3 | And the reason why the made marriages were happy ones is because the people who arranged them were mature level-headed people . ’ |
| 4 | When I joined the Partisans , among other things that surprised me was this endless attention to the arms : their constant cleaning , oiling , polishing . |
| 5 | I loved We were such good friends ( September SHE ) — in fact , I could have written most of it myself . |
| 6 | On the other hand , he might not have recognised her , might have thought some girl was in need of help , then decided they were two harmless lovers and driven away . |
| 7 | She decided he was one fat pig in Wimbledon who was not , could not , should not be brought under the knife of the evil abattoir man who lives , in case you need to know , in Clifton Road just off the common , and the story of how she fought off his terrible friend Farmer Dune , and rallied all the pigs of Wimbledon is the greatest story ever told . |
| 8 | His chest reads , ‘ My Mom and Dad went to Canada and all they brought me was this lousy T-shirt ’ . |
| 9 | The rounds you sent me are all standard N.A.T.O . |
| 10 | As Heather was not a boy this latter did not really concern us , although I thought I was sure Blessed St John wept with the little one over the circumcision he had , of course , had himself . |
| 11 | Dear me , she thought I was some old biddy needing bingo . ’ |
| 12 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 13 | He says I 'm coming New Year 's Day , alright , he went down and he shut it , cos I went in the shop and I says er hang on I thought you was open New Year 's Day ? |
| 14 | Then he lowered his gaze and observed with dark humour , ‘ The receptionist probably thought you were some irate girlfriend come to bring me to book about something or other . ’ |
| 15 | He thought we were all depraved gamblers . |
| 16 | Then I saw some pictures of these Zamaitis guitars and thought they were such beautiful instruments that I 'd want to try to get one . |
| 17 | They thought they were such big stars , but they just created tension . |
| 18 | I felt it was better that way . |
| 19 | He was pushy about it , and the ambulance man and woman felt it was easier that way . |
| 20 | ‘ Thought it was better that way . |
| 21 | Corbett thought it was mere drunken bravado when one of them lunged across the table and uproar ensued as food , cups and flagons of wine and ale were sent sprawling . |
| 22 | At first I think most of us thought it was some electrical appliance . |
| 23 | I thought it was some massive mansion . |
| 24 | I thought it was twenty five percent of their it 's a big sum anyway . |
| 25 | To be honest I thought it was this other bloke who . |
| 26 | he 's beautifully groomed erm Sheila thought he was lovely last week . |
| 27 | Childline 's executive director , Valerie Howarth , said she was delighted that fund raising was getting under way in Ulster . |
| 28 | ‘ Had she been worried all night ? ’ |
| 29 | as I said they 're all little letters S A I D , said |
| 30 | Rene said they 're twenty four pound a week . |