Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtain which divided them was wearing thin . |
| 2 | Then two years ago I realised I was going broke . |
| 3 | I realised I was missing half the jokes , so I mugged up from a textbook — and here I am , ready for more ! ’ |
| 4 | And of course what defeated me was knows this fellow that is an ambulance driver and he 's classed as working class . |
| 5 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 6 | She found she was thinking small , on the scale of the ark , seeing her own hands huge as those of Gulliver in Lilliput . |
| 7 | Then she found she was doing all this already , and a sigh of utter contentment shivered through her . |
| 8 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 9 | The number of actual evictions was tiny — less than twenty per year — though when they occurred they were given widespread publicity and the fears that they raised went far beyond what their numerical significance might indicate . |
| 10 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 11 | Charles found he was watching much of the play as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 12 | The King and his politicians were usually on good enough terms to avoid these extreme steps but as the decades passed the King found he was sharing more of his power with Parliament . |
| 13 | Adam found he was holding both hands clamped over his mouth . |
| 14 | Jeremy : He found he was going colour-blind and cross-eyed so he tried to — |
| 15 | Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said . |
| 16 | If some of those who proposed it are proved right in several years ' time , I hope that I will admit as much , but I have grave doubts nevertheless , and they are shared by a large number of heavyweight people in the Scottish universities . |
| 17 | In the sixth century AD they fortified what was to become one of the most symbolic sites in national rather than regional history . |
| 18 | They ferried plates to and fro from the kitchen , where Rose and Victorine supervised what was to come next . |
| 19 | I just noticed I was reading one of these er incidentally I mentioned about British Gas er this is the one that they give all their . |
| 20 | What would you do if some man out there in the anonymous darkness of the audience fell under the spell you create so skilfully and believed you were singing those sensuous songs just for him ? ’ |
| 21 | She imagined she was cupping this white-hot power in her womb , and that the walls of it contained the fire . |
| 22 | Shaken , he imagined she was feeling guilty at having given herself so easily . |
| 23 | They fell comfortably into gossip about various parts of their experience until McLeish noticed she was looking tired . |
| 24 | Berta , as usual , tried to keep up with them , and Jean noticed she was becoming breathless . |
| 25 | This was our second day in Normandy and I believed we were getting used to it . |
| 26 | A lot of those promoting the policies really believed in them , believed they were doing positive work . |
| 27 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 28 | cos the publicity is not just for visually impaired people or even for sponsors , it 's for theatres too when they 're seeing this and saying ooh , I noticed they 're doing that , this , this and this |
| 29 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 30 | It was several moments before she realized she was running ankle-deep in water . |