Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fish done , spuds on , she got out the asparagus and found they were plastic ! |
| 2 | He let her be music , absolute music . ’ |
| 3 | Reacting to the killings , the Nobel Peace Prize winner , Desmond Tutu , the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town , said it demonstrated it was time for all South Africa 's politicians ‘ for goodness sake to get off your butts and get on with the business of getting a new constitution for this country . |
| 4 | Yes … ! ’ and felt him strip , the feel of his hair-roughened skin against hers driving her wild because now he was so real , so completely real , and so completely hers as they moved together naked , and she took the physical desire he expressed for her and pretended it was love , because it was the deepest display of emotion he had ever shown her . |
| 5 | Then he pretended he was Captain going to bite me . |
| 6 | ‘ although the term Information Management is becoming more frequently used it 's definition is not widely understood as the effective production , storage , retrieval and dissemination of information in any form . |
| 7 | A long clearance from one the Leeds defenders found it 's way into the Crewe half where upon rolling out into touch the linesman controlled it neatly with his left and passed it back to the returning Crewe player with a neat right foot pass . |
| 8 | Afterwards through her affair with the Frenchman she is content because as she says ‘ the linnet found it 's way to the sky ’ . |
| 9 | You found it 's contact , yeah , good , erm |
| 10 | er we learnt from America that er a lot of birds that have been caught by cats , die , and everybody 's always assumed it 's shock but the Americans were doing some tests and they found it 's septicaemia from the cat 's teeth . |
| 11 | when they found it was time to go back . |
| 12 | But he says the hospital changed it 's mind without telling him . |
| 13 | I was mystified and alarmed , then I suddenly twigged it was rain . |
| 14 | Apuleius believed she was mother to the gods of the Roman Empire — DIANA , MINERVA , Venus , HECATE , etc. — and awarded her the additional responsibility of ensuring the welfare of sailors through the use of a celestial wooden rudder which controlled the wind and waves . |
| 15 | His face had gone into something soft that his nose told him was dog dirt . |
| 16 | The first ( up to 7/8 years ) was moral realism and right and wrong in the child 's eyes depended on what adults told him was right or wrong . |
| 17 | The pilot of a Fuji aircraft at about 500 feet agl on finals , who believed he was number four to land , saw a Cherokee type aircraft approaching him on a collision course from his 10 o'clock ; to him the aircraft appeared to be level or slightly high and under power , and his passenger saw the Cherokee 's landing light flash . |
| 18 | Mr Major signalled it was business as usual when he welcomed new Welsh Secretary John Redwood at the morning 's Cabinet and told ministers they had important issues to deal with . |
| 19 | ‘ Brrrrr — ’ he said as the Green Man signalled it was time to cross . |
| 20 | And er last time I came it was Doctor and he changed |
| 21 | I later learnt it was cat . |
| 22 | This led many later Greek thinkers to regard musical theory as a branch of mathematics ( together with geometry , arithmetic , and astronomy it constituted what eventually came to be called the quadrivium ) , although this view was not universally accepted , the most influential of those who rejected it being Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( fourth century BC ) . |
| 23 | With its existence thus assumed it is knowledge of the external world which has to be explained . |
| 24 | I assumed it was coincidence , seeing him in Wexford , and then finding him staying in the same hotel . |
| 25 | No , it never occurred to me — but then I did n't ask him , I just assumed it was meat . |
| 26 | All that got you was humiliation . |
| 27 | For the past weeks Edouard had had to force himself to look at newspapers : all he saw there when he opened them was confirmation and repetition : accident , sickness , violence and sudden death , handed out evenly to the guilty and the innocent . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'eard 'e was orf work wiv 'is back . ’ |
| 29 | It came to him that what really troubled him was motive , or rather the lack of what he considered to be a convincing motive for the killing . |
| 30 | This state then turned it 's attention to the majority population of Christians and Muslims . |