Example sentences of "be [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum . |
| 2 | When the French were here they had much freedom in the camp because they were sensible and did not try to escape . |
| 3 | And while we were , while we were there we had some invitations to , to dine out with well it was my daughter 's and we went and had a meal with them and they were quite taken back by er they lived in this little which originally I had thought was a was a er a poultry house . |
| 4 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 5 | What is more it had gold tassels , a feature only found in America , nowhere else in the Salvation Army world . |
| 6 | Because i i they though it was in competition with other varieties around and it something t It was n't necessarily to do with the fact that erm they though it was less it held less prestige in the community . |
| 7 | ‘ My first reaction was jealously he had great legs , ’ she said . |
| 8 | have you told them big insurance company come and unstuck a little and what he had like Gail done , was like we had last year |
| 9 | Kylie , based in the opulent comfort of London 's St James 's Club , favourite hunt of Hollywood superstars like Clint Eastwood , was everywhere it seemed that summer — and the record sales reflected it around the world . |
| 10 | In some ways it was worse than Saturday because it was then we realised all hope had gone . ’ |