Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the deadness of sound , I judged I was in the main roof-space . |
| 2 | When she woke it was to the incessant chattering of the wheels against the rails and Emily thought she would never arrive at her destination . |
| 3 | And er god you should of heard him , god if it ai n't Ross all over again , mummy , mummy and she left him there , as I said when they first came he was in the far bedroom , well now I suppose with all these people she 's rearranged it indoors and he 's in the one next to our house , and she 's shouting at him and er it went on how , I ca n't tell you how long , I mean , Bev and I was talking through bedrooms you know |
| 4 | They guessed she was on a bad trip and moved in swiftly before she could hurt herself . |
| 5 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 6 | Saul of Tarsus after his Damascus road experience spent three days in fasting and prayer ; that showed he was in the receptive mood which invited the Spirit to come . |
| 7 | The judge was impressed but reckoned it was in the wrong section . |
| 8 | Then we realised we were in the WRONG parade . |
| 9 | Dillon gave no sign of being frightened , but Tweed sensed he was like a coiled spring . |
| 10 | We know nothing of her months there , and we only know that when she returned it was with the dark inner side of her nature woken , so that she must be kept chained and guarded . ’ |
| 11 | Gary player and Henry Cotton were two strokes behind us and the boss and I decided we were among the right sort of company . |
| 12 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 13 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 14 | I burst on to the pass from Jack Clarke , had a wee look and saw I was in the clear . |
| 15 | I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it . |
| 16 | I knew I was on the wrong track when the tall reeds broke to reveal the brown-bellied river . |
| 17 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 18 | We went into my room at last , with our arms round each other , and in the doorway I stopped dead because I 'd forgotten what Toby had said about John and for a second I thought I was in the wrong room . |
| 19 | He looked at Catherine Crane 's feet and saw she was in a similar situation . |
| 20 | She felt she was in a private hell of her own on Saturday morning while she waited for Naylor to call . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , I thought you were from the British Committee . |
| 22 | ‘ But I thought she was with the other programme . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I knew we was onto a good 'un when we comes to Sinkport , but I never guessed as the old scallywag 'imself 'ud be 'ere . |
| 24 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 25 | The last I heard you thought they were behind the whole thing ! ’ |
| 26 | Now they thought they were in a new thing in nineteen fifties when they brought in one man operated buses but they were n't . |
| 27 | He would n't eat them , cos he thought they were in the other potato . |
| 28 | Byrne was not a particularly big man , standing only 5 feet 9 inches and weighing 13 stone , but Deaf Burke was even smaller at 5 feet 8½ inches , and 12 stone 7 lbs , so the Irishman felt he was onto a good thing . |
| 29 | Despite his brotherly teasing and criticisms , he was devoted to her and would not be speaking in this fashion unless he felt it was for the best . |
| 30 | We felt it was in the public interest to test security there . |