Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 2 | all you told me was that Miss was retiring . |
| 3 | What he told me was that M. Chaillot adored the company of women and would wish to charm me . |
| 4 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 5 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 6 | If she stood firm , there was nothing he could do , she told herself — though whether she believed it was another matter . |
| 7 | He ha scored ten in thirty minutes before he was hit on the temple of his helmet by a ball from Marshall that lifted sharply ; with his vision blurred it was several days before he left hospital , and he did not play again all season . |
| 8 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 9 | I think I just assumed he was that sort of person and night-time did that to him . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm surprised at yer. , mate , I never reckoned you was that kind of bloke . |
| 11 | All was well at first , but when she calved it was another story . |
| 12 | At the end of my talk the chairman of the session , John G. Taylor from Kings College , London , claimed it was all nonsense . |
| 13 | Fringe , flat out at racing pace , had a wildness about him I could n't really control and I guessed it was that quality which won him races . |
| 14 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 15 | But there was a big loss of life as well , but what frightened me was this Germans coming over on Peedie bits of rafts and the men swimming in the sea and whatnot |
| 16 | but the other one , they did this vi video diary that they each spoke on and he was getting more upset , the more weight she lost he was more discontent in saying that |
| 17 | Whether I understood them was another matter . |
| 18 | I thought yours were same make . |
| 19 | I suppose he thought I was another weirdo like him that always sit on benches talking to themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew you were all heart really Joe . |
| 21 | I thought you were some sort of ghoul come to … come to do what ghouls do . ’ |
| 22 | She 'd be sitting at home waiting for this bloody man , who at best thought she was some kind of alien , and at worst , stark , staring mad . |
| 23 | I thought we were all biologists these days ! |
| 24 | I mean , yeah , I mean , knew they 're that price . |
| 25 | Well he knew they were all slate quarry workers , and that 's how he went on to them . |
| 26 | He knew they were all slate quarry workers and they were prepared to work the slate again . |
| 27 | So I thought they were all part of a jokey game . |
| 28 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought they were another company , personal enemies . |
| 30 | At first he thought they were some sort of exotic underwater flippers , scaly , silvery , tailing away to black ends with claw-like projections . |