Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | ‘ What I saw was the first draft of the first letter . |
| 3 | one I said was the last but it . |
| 4 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 5 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 6 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 7 | I already had two children , and the last thing I wanted was a third . |
| 8 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 9 | She wanted him to plead with her to stay with him , forever , as he 'd done once before , but this time she would accept and tell him how wrong she had been the first time . |
| 10 | She looked behind and concentrated on speeding backwards down the track , giving silent thanks that she had been the last to arrive . |
| 11 | She had been the last to use it , when she unlocked it to get the morphia for Mrs Richards . |
| 12 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 13 | The clue to what he meant is the last sentence from Lewis : ‘ The lines and masses of a statue are its soul ’ . |
| 14 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 15 | It had been the first time that he had really seen Sara in tears . |
| 16 | It had been the first casino in modern Russia , had operated out of a converted bedroom on the second floor . |
| 17 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 18 | From 1904 it had been the last Romanov 's main home . |
| 19 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
| 20 | He had been the first to reach Maggie , though her screams had brought people running from all the neighbouring tenements . |
| 21 | Sheppard , already famous as ‘ the radio parson ’ — he had been the first person to broadcast a church service — was Canon of St Pauls . |
| 22 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 23 | Once he had been The First Hand Supreme in all Chung Kuo , Master of Masters and eight times winner of the great annual championship held in Suchow . |
| 24 | He had been the first to hear the sound of the car approaching , and the quickest to identify it , for he was the only one who looked completely unsurprised as it rolled gently alongside the Aston Martin , while all the rest had checked momentarily and turned to gaze . |
| 25 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 26 | He had been the first serf-owner to take advantage of the reformist Law on Obligated Peasants . |
| 27 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 28 | He had taken some comfort from the fact that he had been the last man to board the cage , so at least he could watch Yorky and the others exit , before his turn came . |
| 29 | The doctor was n't the only security failure in West German intelligence , but he had been the last straw for Sims . |