Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 2 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 3 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 4 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 5 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 6 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 7 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 8 | COCA-COLA took over sponsorship of the League Cup in a £2.25 million deal yesterday and confirmed they are the ‘ real thing ’ for football . |
| 9 | I measured it when it died and confirmed it was the correct species by carrying out various ichthyological classification data , such as scale counts and rin ray counts . |
| 10 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm so sorry — I saw the fire , and thought it was the dining-room . |
| 12 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
| 13 | They all fancied him and thought he was the handsomest boy they had ever seen … . ’ |
| 14 | So some bright spark produced small tasty jam-filled doughnuts and said THEY were the missing holes . |
| 15 | Then she apologised for her mask , which was indeed extraordinary , and said it was the custom of her people . |
| 16 | ‘ Friends , many of them believers , came up afterwards and said it was the most beautiful funeral they had ever been to . |
| 17 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
| 18 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 19 | He offered a hand of reconciliation to whites and said it was the ANC 's job , as the country 's biggest political force , to address national unity and nation building . |
| 20 | The Federation of Small Businesses reacted positively to the Budget and said it was the result of the Chancellor 's meeting its representatives and listening to what they were saying . |
| 21 | One widow wrote to thank the organisers and said it was the most moving service she had ever attended . |
| 22 | ‘ She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls . |
| 23 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |
| 24 | Presently a man with greying hair and specs came in and said he was the doctor who was going to remove the polyps . |
| 25 | I laughed and said I was the same when I was young . |
| 26 | The depths that Ace seemed prepared to sink to just to hurt and wound her were the most painful things she 'd experienced since the start of their relationship . |