Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked is the haddock finnan ? ’ said a querulous voice . |
| 2 | Among the first people I met were the bridegroom 's uncle Mr Peter Stormonth-Darling , with his daughter Mrs Justin Cobb with her two-and-a-half year old daughter Zoë who was a bridesmaid . |
| 3 | The first friends I met were the bridegroom 's half-sister Lady Tana Focke , with Mr Paul Focke , and their two very attractive teenage daughters Diana Focke and Victoria Focke . |
| 4 | Among those I met were the Duke of Wellington , who has his London home in part of beautiful Apsley House , which with all its treasures he presented to the nation some years ago ; Vicomte and Vicomtesse Bernard de la Giraudière , and Mr Richard Nicholson the Vice Chairman of Laurent-Perrier UK , and his charming wife ; Mr Malcolm Innes , Mrs Piffa Schroder , Mr John Grant of Rothiemurchus , the Hon. |
| 5 | I tried your mobile as well but I did n't think it would work up there in the mountains and sure enough all I got was the recording saying try again later . ’ |
| 6 | What was also disturbing was that I found being the centre of attention quite attractive . |
| 7 | What I found was the Women 's Movement and I dedicated myself completely to it at all levels from forming advice groups , demonstrating to reclaim the streets etc . |
| 8 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 9 | Rotherham has an Asian presence , but most of the places I visited are the old , white , axis of the English working class , immunised from the input of England 's new nationalities . |
| 10 | There was never a dull moment and among the places I visited were the Statue of Liberty , Central Park , the World Trade Centre , the Empire State Building , Wall Street and Chinatown . |
| 11 | The second one I visited was the centre on Edgware Road . |
| 12 | The first dedicated fax card I used was the JTFax , which was purely a fax card and lacked a data modem . |
| 13 | The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . |
| 14 | The effortful shepherding of one 's confusion and faint nausea , which I assumed was the basic existential package , turns out to have been a temporary condition . |
| 15 | But Ingrid almost denies this : ‘ I 'd been the typical first-year art-school person , entrenched in one style that was really landscapey — all earthy colours and shapes . |
| 16 | If I 'd been the archer , I thought , I would have been waiting in position , crouched and camouflaged , endlessly patient , arrow notched on bow . |
| 17 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 18 | Because I 'd been the butt of her wit she remembered me . |
| 19 | Arnie was ready to take that risk but I was n't : I 'd been the one at London station . |
| 20 | So despite the yellow scarf strangling my balls , the brown make-up , and even the accent , I relished being the pivot of the production . |
| 21 | But , apart from the devastation , especially in the harbour area , the only real dissimilarities I noticed were the shutters on the houses and the fact that the dwellings were all taller and narrower than in England . |
| 22 | The first thing I noticed was the air of relaxed efficiency . |
| 23 | The second thing I noticed was the friendliness of the people , the spontaneity of their welcome and their kindness to all the athletes who gathered there . |
| 24 | The first thing I noticed was the bandages , from ankle to thigh . |
| 25 | I must admit when I when I came in the door there the first thing I noticed was the peat smell . |
| 26 | One of the central interpretative difficulties that I faced was the lack of comparable material from other studies . |
| 27 | I enjoyed being the creeper , but not the victim ; now my role was reversed . |
| 28 | ‘ You mean , what I heard was the tapes ? ’ |
| 29 | I was doing something all I heard was the sound of this chair . |
| 30 | The first night I heard was the party . |