Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The judge was impressed but reckoned it was in the wrong section . |
| 7 | Then we realised we were in the WRONG parade . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Gary player and Henry Cotton were two strokes behind us and the boss and I decided we were among the right sort of company . |
| 10 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 11 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 12 | I burst on to the pass from Jack Clarke , had a wee look and saw I was in the clear . |
| 13 | I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it . |
| 14 | I knew I was on the wrong track when the tall reeds broke to reveal the brown-bellied river . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , I thought you were from the British Committee . |
| 17 | ‘ But I thought she was with the other programme . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | The last I heard you thought they were behind the whole thing ! ’ |
| 20 | He would n't eat them , cos he thought they were in the other potato . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We felt it was in the public interest to test security there . |
| 23 | With a slow erotic motion , she slid her smouldering twat up and down his pulsating shaft , until she knew he was on the very point of ejaculation . |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Miss Rene continued , ‘ immediately we saw this we knew it was of the highest quality . |
| 25 | When Mellor joined colleagues for yesterday 's Cabinet meeting , he knew it was for the last time . |
| 26 | Yeah , I thought it was about the best one ever . |
| 27 | I thought it was at the tenth anniversary , every five years after that , I did n't realise that came into , John said it was . |
| 28 | I thought it was for the best . |
| 29 | I thought it was on the right hand side as you went into village . |
| 30 | I thought it was on the main road ? |