Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [be] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | Clearly visible as an up-lighter caught it was the strong profile of Martin Ward , with the Dyson family a few steps behind . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Hence , around 1980 , William Assheton , an architectural student whose forebears included the Rev. Richard Assheton , found he was the new owner of the building . |
| 11 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 12 | But she found it was a different school with different faces . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She paced the garden ; she found it was an exact square . |
| 15 | I suppose what you told me was the whole truth ? ’ |
| 16 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 17 | He said he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through . |
| 18 | He said that he believed I was the only person who could carry the country through … |
| 19 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He did n't treat you with disrespect — he just assumed you were a mere mortal like the rest of us . |
| 22 | He assumed she was the younger daughter of the couple who lived on the second floor , until she spoke . |
| 23 | Powell believed they were a luxury Virgin could ill-afford . |
| 24 | At times they imagined they were a disembarked army and went to Santa Cruz or Machico , which they bombarded and took . |
| 25 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
| 26 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought — believed it was a passing affair … ’ |
| 28 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |
| 29 | Sinead — even in that mad moment — believed it was the right thing to do . ’ |
| 30 | She said she gave it to her daughter because she believed it was the only drug which could help alleviate her condition . |