Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [pers pn] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Runciman was not interested and Hughes told them he was busy turning round his company , which had temporarily bombed — an ideal qualification in retrospect . |
| 2 | ‘ When , in answer to his assumption that there was to be an early wedding , I asked what was going round the grapevine now , he told me it was pure speculation on his part , stemming from the fact that you 'd just handed in your resignation . ’ |
| 3 | She had been spitting blood after a bad bout of coughing , but one look at the sputum told me it was clean blood . |
| 4 | She told me she was Champion Fish Gutter down the docks ! |
| 5 | They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away . |
| 6 | She dressed him in Viyella shirts and cords ; when I first knew him he was haphazard Oxfam , sometimes a dinner suit , sometimes torn overalls . |