Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] was [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I just thought it all through and realised I was wrong . |
2 | ‘ I could n't talk and realised it was serious . |
3 | He immediately booked a flight to Toulouse , saw a house 35 miles north-west of Toulouse in a small hamlet and realised it was ideal as a home as well as an auberge . |
4 | When they tried to question him they received unintelligible replies and realised he was drunk . |
5 | Noel Wright , prosecuting , said : ‘ The defendant is an enthusiastic DIY man and admitted he was responsible . ’ |
6 | Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm |
7 | I checked with Pike and found I was correct : according to custom and practice my job description formed a part of my contract . |
8 | Some woman journalist friend of his had a handicapped daughter and found she was entitled to virtually no help looking after her , whereas if she fostered someone else 's kid she got any number of handouts . |
9 | A MAN turned up for Old Bailey jury service yesterday — and found he was due to try his 20-year-old son for burglary . |
10 | Tom touched his cheek and found it was cold . |
11 | Then he looked it up and found it was some priceless Tsarist cross he 'd turned down . |
12 | Last night I had no idea how to pronounce it and assumed it was pure Quechua . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | The woman was reprimanded for " a heap of lies " and told she was entitled to nothing unless " we liked to give her daughter 's child a pair of shoes " . |
15 | I 've also had the wiring checked numerous times and told it was fine . |
16 | She looked at the clock and noticed it was twenty-past one — everyone was in now except Michael . |
17 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |
18 | But the court ruled it was clear that members of Lt Roos 's patrol had beaten members of the public , and added it was astonishing that they had escaped punishment . |
19 | Zacchaeus made a public confession of his past and declared he was ready to make amends . |
20 | The count built a wall around the town and reckoned he was secure . |
21 | McLeish asked whereabouts and discovered it was three roads away from his own flat , so they complained enjoyably to each other about the local council . |
22 | She had a lot of hair , but it was so tangled and matted it was impossible to determine the colour . |
23 | Owner-trainer John Hill and three racecourse vets checked the filly over and decided she was fit to run , but Atlantic Way could finish only third . |
24 | Violet saw the man 's face harden and decided it was better to give way on this occasion . |
25 | The Red Barrell company was losing its own Stag brewery , near Victoria Station , to redevelopment , and decided it was easier to buy another London brewery than build one . |
26 | He worked for a major oil corporation there called Pan-Global and felt he was privileged to be entrusted by his employer , the proprietor himself , with such a discreet mission . |
27 | He was backed by Walton colleague Daphne Hall , who said she could not see how anyone could fail to support it , and felt it was better to have the Naze under a management scheme . |
28 | Preston recognised this as a personal criticism and felt it was unjustified . |
29 | I came back and saw it was true : there is nothing in the shops . ’ |
30 | The Buddha went up a mountain and looked down on Samsara ( the mundane word ) and saw it was trivial . |