Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Don Black , lyricist of Tell Me On A Sunday and Aspects of Love , and one of the funniest men in the Western Bloc , came in to the studio to be interviewed I was a frothing heap . |
| 2 | The only sign that anyone had ever occupied it was the flattened grass beneath the tree , where her blanket had been . |
| 3 | I 'd forgotten it was an away game . ’ |
| 4 | Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour |
| 5 | Originally a mere footpath through fields , Charles II had decided it was a better route to Hampton Court than one to the North , through the village of Knightsbridge . |
| 6 | Not an easy tongue to master at such short notice , but she had always felt it was a basic courtesy for a tourist to make some attempt , however feeble , to communicate in the tongue of the host country . |
| 7 | This assertion would be misleading , for not only was cattle stealing not primitive , but when organized it was a rational economic business . |
| 8 | When it was built it was a significant addition to the city 's houses as it heralded the start of the restructuring that saw the completion of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II . |
| 9 | ‘ Have n't I always said it was a dank , sinister , unhealthy place , David ? ’ she said . |
| 10 | I had told everybody so , and the Oxford don who had suggested the design had said it was a proven scientific fact . |
| 11 | Besides , Adam had said it was a long detour to get back on to the main road , if this lane was cut off . |
| 12 | He 'd said it was a natural voice , one that did n't have to be nursed or conserved or constantly disciplined . |
| 13 | If they had known , people might have said he was a reformed character , but nobody had known much about his bad ways because he had worked on his own . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's said he was a boorish man — moody , quarrelsome . |
| 15 | But what most angered me was the last-minute timing of the intervention . |
| 16 | Still , I had n't thought I was a big enough fish for this sort of attention . ’ |
| 17 | He must have thought I was an absolute philistine — if they have those in Vietnam — I mean China — I mean Vietnam ! |
| 18 | Her face was pleasingly flushed from hurrying , but now she walked with her head held high , taking slow , dignified steps so that no one would have thought she was a domestic servant . |
| 19 | But their parents had obviously thought it was a suitable area . |
| 20 | Well I would n't have thought it was a one-one function . |
| 21 | I would have thought it was a regular occurrence . |
| 22 | Someone must have thought it was a bright idea , though . |
| 23 | I tell you what , erm , I 've got to revise my bit in of Gooch 's , I 'm such an admirer of him and everything , I have n't , I would have thought he was a brilliant strategist , I think during this summer he 's really begun to read the batsmen erm , strengths and failures and and set the field . |
| 24 | I would n't have thought he was the right bloke for this kind of operation , ’ Hitch said . |
| 25 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 26 | And I mean , we were told it was a first class area but there 's , if anybody walked into the building just now you would nah see it was a first class area to look at the state the building 's in ! |
| 27 | He is as daft as a brush and had to be persuaded ours was a worthwhile cause . |
| 28 | When my own daughter was born I was a single parent , and had to work to pay the bills , so I missed the best years of her childhood . |
| 29 | Other girls graduated from the PZ high schools and got Senior Proms , but she had known she was a grown-up woman the day she ripped Bruno 's rotten throat out for him . |
| 30 | I suppose he was angry , he must have known it was a stupid thing to say . |