Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | What really made me sick was Claire , who was kneeling behind her , brushing her hair . |
| 2 | He told them time was running out , but it is clear Milosevic , boosted by his recent election victory , is determined to spread the war and his power . |
| 3 | ‘ You told me hydraulics was fascinating . ’ |
| 4 | What caused me concern was , as I say , the slightly uncomfortable feeling that Eliot had been bounced into writing an article which he did not particularly relish doing and to which he would in any case have wished to devote much more reflection . |
| 5 | However , specialists told him glaucoma was slowly attacking the sight in his good eye . |
| 6 | I told him lunch was £19.50 and it was a good bargain . |
| 7 | ‘ He was gobsmacked when I told him mine was a replica . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Smith taunted : ‘ The country will never forget that it was your Government and your Chancellor who told us unemployment was a price well worth paying . |
| 9 | And when the person who owed them money was the heir to the throne they still deserved to be treated justly , perhaps even more so . |
| 10 | What gave him pause was not lack of sympathy for the enterprise but the appalling difficulty of handling his grandmother in relation to Leon . |
| 11 | The environment that gave us opportunity was so dissimilar from that of the present as to seem more remote in time than it is . |
| 12 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
| 13 | Er no I can nae say that er er There is one I I think there there used to be a a lad up the road there I used to speak to his mother and she said he son was a French polisher . |