Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb mod] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I figured I must be the only fool who was trying to start something ; I was trying to get that big BB King sound and then I saw The Fabulous Thunderbirds , with Jimmie Vaughan on guitar . |
| 2 | But , upon reflection , they changed their minds and decided it would be the right thing to do . |
| 3 | ‘ The opposition was divided and he thought his would be the strongest party . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Cara , ’ Fabia cried , and felt she must be the meanest person living . |
| 5 | I do n't know cos we thought you 'd be the only one who actually managed to get a copy when nobody else could lay their fice for the af from two o'clock in the afternoon yeah F finalised |
| 6 | My eldest , Maria , was a good , clever girl — I thought she must be the best pupil in the school . |
| 7 | And Kartoffel knew they 'd be the first to tread the Eiger 's virgin summit . |
| 8 | This was the second disappointment for my mother , who prided herself on her own intelligence and wanted her children to succeed academically , because she felt it would be the only way we could be successful in life , there being no money at home . |
| 9 | It was the only sexual advance she had ever made to him and he knew it would be the last . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought it would be the eighth round . |
| 11 | We never thought it would be the last time we saw him . ’ |
| 12 | I thought it might be the other mob , or … |
| 13 | Morse thought it must be the splendid grandfather clock he 'd seen somewhere that he heard chiming the three-quarters ( 10.45 a.m. ) as he and Lewis sat beside each other in a deep settee in the Lancaster Room . |
| 14 | The servants saw him and immediately thought he must be the same boy from last night . |
| 15 | and the chap who insisted he would be the perfect neutral umpire because his maternal grandmother was Swiss carry the day . |
| 16 | Duncan had not returned Armstrong by six , so I presumed it would be the next morning . |
| 17 | When she emerged , she found herself in a small square beside a canal so wide that she immediately realised it must be the Grand Canal itself . |
| 18 | ‘ I carry no religion , ’ he told her , ‘ but if I did it would be the ancient Jewish religion of my ancestors ’ . |
| 19 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 20 | ‘ The teachers said she would be the oldest in the nursery and would n't be with her peer group , ’ she explained . |
| 21 | Although the extension would provide only a small number of places , he hoped they would be the first of many in that area of Darlington . |
| 22 | He said it would be the first of a series of ventures which Gooding was discussing with Japanese companies , aimed at bringing research and technology to Britain rather than just final assembly of goods . |
| 23 | ‘ He said it would be the silliest strike in history , ’ Mr Cameron told a news conference later . |
| 24 | She said he must be the only nine-year-old boy in the whole of Yorkshire who had a proper bedroom all to himself . |
| 25 | Sir Thomas , who set great store on his cultural activities , ’ trying to keep the sarcasm from her voice , ‘ considered he would be the best chairman for such an important event . ’ |