Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until half an hour later that I realised I was on C1 . |
| 2 | I was as quiet as I could be , but all the same , I ca n't help wondering if at some stage he realised I was on his heels . |
| 3 | ‘ I THOUGHT I was still standing and then I realised I was on the floor . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I pleaded guilty because I realised I was in breach of my contract and expected to be punished . |
| 5 | She just had to turn out , and there was nothing coming down , foot down , opened up , got I was at the top of the hill and she was nowhere in sight . |
| 6 | Anyway I smiled and I wheedled and he let me be without the gag and he let me look round . |
| 7 | I found I was outside the tent , standing up with my jacket clutched to me , the better to see them . |
| 8 | When she woke up , she found she was at home with him at last . ’ |
| 9 | Suddenly Sophie found she was in deep water . |
| 10 | He had time to have a word with everyone and on the occasions when I met him in England he was more than helpful — unlike some of his colleagues in the Press room who pestered you for information when at Leopardstown , then pretended you were from another planet when you went to a big meeting in England . |
| 11 | The greeter was grouchy at seven ; I hate to think how nettled she was by ten . |
| 12 | We bore left , and I found we were in t |
| 13 | Of course , it was useful to both Romania and China to let Moscow know how deeply involved they were with the Americans , because such knowledge could deter Moscow from interfering in their internal affairs . |
| 14 | The views of the teachers tended to be directly related to how involved they were in managing a department and thus how involved they were in spending capitation . |
| 15 | The views of the teachers tended to be directly related to how involved they were in managing a department and thus how involved they were in spending capitation . |
| 16 | When she came to with a start she found they were in the car park below the ruins of the castle in Haverfordwest . |
| 17 | funny it 's like cos they had the keyboard and that sort of rap beat it 's like , and all my kebabs are in salad cream , rap it on , stack it on , that 's my scene , gim me some kebab kebab gim me ages , wicked tune , I mean all these words |
| 18 | The problem SAVE faced was that it had been so disfigured by later alterations that many people doubted it was of sufficient interest to merit saving . |
| 19 | There was such stillness in him that when he moved it was like something dead had come alive again . |
| 20 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 21 | He played the hard man and pretended he was beyond fear , but that was nonsense . |
| 22 | ‘ Anyway , a certain man appeared , and pretended he was in love with Miss Havisham . |
| 23 | It 's very easy to exaggerate in athletics , and five metres can become ten without much bother ; however , by the time Viktor Bryzgin got away on the anchor nobody doubted he was on his way to Soviet gold . |
| 24 | Right now , I mentioned it was in aid of charity , how , how are you going on , on the charity side of things ? |
| 25 | To his relief he found he was above the trees and looking down into a murkiness that was beginning to map itself below him into defined and recognizable shapes . |
| 26 | The Select Committee on Members ' Interests found he was in ‘ clear breach of the terms and the spirit ’ of the rules on declaration of interests for failing to tell other committee members of his links with a company making flight simulators . |
| 27 | We found he was in good shape , but had no food in his intestines . |
| 28 | George Burley 's door , two along from mine , was wide open , and I found he was in residence , dressed but asleep , quietly snoring in his armchair . |
| 29 | He found it was at its worst in the late evenings when he sat alone in Fern Cottage . |
| 30 | Going absently to see what it was , Greg found it was from Somerset House . |