Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believed she was one hundred percent right . |
| 2 | I assumed she was one of Bella 's lot . |
| 3 | By nightfall he believed he was 30 miles from Lubeck , so next morning he headed for the port along with workpeople . |
| 4 | That the club marked its centenary in 1990 is unconnected with arthritic administration , rather that for many years Shildon believed it was two years later . |
| 5 | For a moment he thought there was a double meaning in her words , but he dismissed the thought when he recognised it was one of her usual openings to draw him into conversation . |
| 6 | Even Oscar Wilde called it charming — granted he was one of history 's great gossipers , but he was an even greater gossipee . |
| 7 | Well this , this was a letter of the , granted it was eighty nine , but I mean this paragraph just said , you know , if we , does say that , you know , if we established a , a demand , and I do n't see why we should n't have a bash at . |
| 8 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |
| 9 | When peace came he was one of the committee of six who , having co-opted a further six , devised the settlement : the Dictum of Kenilworth of 31 October 1266 . |
| 10 | John Berger believes it raises more questions than meet the eye Photograph of Pollock in his studio by Hans Namuth The suicide of art Pollock and Lee Krasner : when they first met she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was . |
| 11 | All she could do was stare glumly at the sign hanging inside the door — CONFISERIE VASSOIR : Ouvert 9.30–18.30 Mardi à Samedi — then glance at her watch , which confirmed she was fifteen minutes too late . |
| 12 | The following table shows a surge in the number of female actuaries over the last decade an also demonstrates how male dominated we were 60 years ago . |
| 13 | They confirmed it was 32 per cent bigger all the way around than the plans allowed for — and now councillors have ordered the Foys to pull down the house , claiming it was built too big deliberately . |
| 14 | A roadside breath test showed he was 2 1/2 times over the legal alcohol limit . |
| 15 | well , well Vicky reckoned it was ten hours from Calais |
| 16 | I guessed it was one of my circle of private informants on the Continent — the people even you do n't know about . |
| 17 | He could n't tell , but guessed it was one of the team . |
| 18 | From the shape of its lights I guessed it was one of the small Peugeots . |
| 19 | When Edge graduated he was one of the two Smith 's prizemen in his year . |
| 20 | Well this feller that rung me was sixty three . |
| 21 | McLeish asked whereabouts and discovered it was three roads away from his own flat , so they complained enjoyably to each other about the local council . |
| 22 | A vet who checked family records discovered he was 17 to 18 years old when he examined him at the Halewood RSPCA shelter yesterday evening . |
| 23 | I heard it was six weeks . |
| 24 | You would have swore she was seventeen |
| 25 | On the other hand , he might not have recognised her , might have thought some girl was in need of help , then decided they were two harmless lovers and driven away . |
| 26 | She decided he was one fat pig in Wimbledon who was not , could not , should not be brought under the knife of the evil abattoir man who lives , in case you need to know , in Clifton Road just off the common , and the story of how she fought off his terrible friend Farmer Dune , and rallied all the pigs of Wimbledon is the greatest story ever told . |
| 27 | Okay so you decided on your scale and you decided it was nine centimetres along there okay and f the way to do it fairly accurately is just draw a line that 's a bit longer than nine . |
| 28 | But when I started it was fifty-two and a half hours a week yes . |
| 29 | ‘ Always knew you were one of me mates , ’ said Archie , highly gratified that things had suddenly been made easy for him . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought you were one of them . ’ |