Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [be] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the stations as Curzon found them were no more than rude shanties , a few planks half-buried in the sands of Central Asia . |
| 2 | The auction itself , while the organisers assured me was no more than their normal one , carried quite a few important items of furniture and there was also a wide range of smalls which commanded what I would consider to be better-than-normal prices . |
| 3 | And she believed it was the same with him . |
| 4 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 5 | It was impossible for Theodore to maintain the integrity of Wilfrid 's position while at the same time attempting to conserve the tradition which Eata , Eadhaed and Bosa represented , and in the years which followed it was the latter which was consolidated . |
| 6 | The plates flickered past , solemn and beautiful faces , sleeping soldiers , angels carrying flutes , and then a page fell open more easily because , slipped into it , she found a sheet of the villa 's notepaper on which was typed what she at first thought to be a shopping-list , but , as she began to read , discovered it was no such thing . |
| 7 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |
| 8 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 9 | The one I saw it was the same plain . |
| 10 | Wherever she went it was the same story . |
| 11 | He knew he was no such man ! |
| 12 | Although they were looking at the clump of bushes from a different angle now , she knew it was the same clump they had seen from the gate . |
| 13 | " I knew it was the same for you ; that made it worse . |
| 14 | She had never known anything like the need that rent her , and she knew it was the same need that was racking Luke 's rigid body ; and still it escalated as they succumbed to a welter of tumultuous embraces , caresses and kisses , their staccato breathing punctuated by the sharp sounds of desire , their skin damp with perspiration . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew it was the same family , ’ he admitted . |
| 16 | When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ . |
| 17 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
| 18 | If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two . |
| 20 | I laughed and said I was the same when I was young . |
| 21 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 22 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 23 | But when tha , when the doctor was on in the morning , the doctor said it 's the same as the carotene in carrot |
| 24 | said it was the most , said it was worse than Body of Evidence . |
| 25 | I would be lying to you if I said it was the same now . |
| 26 | She said he was the same at home , only wanted to play with toys and watch TV , he would n't do any ‘ work ’ . |
| 27 | Rory supposed it was the same thoughtlessness that had made dad and mum have him so much later than the rest of their children . |
| 28 | I had been there nine times previously , but I supposed it was the same as your time as a baby — you could not remember a thing about it . |