Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the wolf whistles came though , I decided I was n't after all . |
| 2 | Once Felipe 's mother died I was not at all welcome . |
| 3 | I knew I was n't in any danger . |
| 4 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 5 | I thought I was in for another evening of getting slightly drunk on my own . ’ |
| 6 | When he did n't move or give any indication that he knew she was there at all — although he must have heard the car draw up and , unless he was deaf , the car door slam — she marched across to him . |
| 7 | He says she showed up at London 's Dorchester Hotel dressed all in black , nobody knew she was there at all . |
| 8 | I thought you were over for that |
| 9 | I thought we were in for some stability . |
| 10 | It meant they were here for some time . |
| 11 | Personally I liked it , but felt it was not worth all the publicity I had helped create for it . |
| 12 | During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar . |
| 13 | I thought it was just like any other party . |
| 14 | A quarter consider it very worthwhile and almost another half consider it to be fairly , a quarter found it to be not very but only 5 per cent thought it was not at all worthwhile . |
| 15 | But the scene which awaited her was not at all what she expected . |
| 16 | To the delight of both children , we learned it was just below this spot that Bram Stoker 's Dracula leapt ashore from his sinking ship in the shape of a huge black dog , and slept on a suicide 's grave among the abbey tombs . |
| 17 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
| 18 | No , you said you were there for half past five , because you had to get there before half past five in order to book it . |
| 19 | I think he were going for a , a month , a month and a half summat like that , and he said it were out of this world . |
| 20 | Owen thought he knew what kind of assistance that was but Mahmoud said it was not like that , or not like that entirely . |
| 21 | He said he was always on another planet . |
| 22 | Right then you suspected he was more to those Apaches than a friend or a boss . |