Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his hands she saw something glint and realised it was a knife . |
| 2 | She caught a glimpse of colour — dark red — and realised it was a woman 's dress . |
| 3 | First we thought something fell , but then 15 minutes later we came out and saw the crowds and police and realised it was a bomb . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She regarded him suspiciously , and realised it was the best he was going to do for her . |
| 6 | He began trying on his mother 's clothing when he was eight and realised he was a transexual when he was 17 . |
| 7 | Being a true professional , she flashed a smile — as Fred hung on for dear life — and admitted it was a pretty paw show . |
| 8 | Then I put my hair up with one hand and pretended I was a model . |
| 9 | She bought herself a ring and pretended she was a widow . ’ |
| 10 | Kenny Logan won his first cap and demonstrated he is a player for the future . |
| 11 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 12 | OLD salt Sydney Barnes , 83 , turned up for a naval reunion and found he was the only one there . |
| 13 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 14 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
| 15 | Her husband found her one day wearing a rose pinned to her gown that was not from his garden , and guessed it was a gift from her lover . |
| 16 | But an English ex-social worker has come forward after seeing her picture in TODAY and claimed she is a youngster he once counselled . |
| 17 | The first statement issued by COPREFA , the armed forces press office , declared that she had been killed in combat and claimed she was a guerrilla combatant who operated under the name of Comandante Lucia . |
| 18 | THE IRA murdered a man it said was one of its former members yesterday and claimed he was a police informer . |
| 19 | 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 . " |
| 20 | 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 . " |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One evening when we were watching the show , I looked around and discovered I was the only person awake in the room . |
| 25 | She went out to listen and discovered it was a policeman in a car . |
| 26 | Northumberland National Park were pleased at the response and felt it was a very worthwhile event , while in the Peak District 17 schools took part . |
| 27 | She turned and saw it was a young man quite obviously afflicted by Down 's syndrome who had called her . |
| 28 | He had heard many stories about Yanto , and knew he was a rough handful . |
| 29 | I went over to look and knew it was a lap dog . ’ |
| 30 | In reality , it is to introduce as a solution a concept which itself poses a theoretical problem , for as it is adopted and understood it is an uncriticized concept , a concept which , like all ‘ obvious ’ concepts , threatens to have for theoretical content no more than the function that the existing or dominant ideology defines for it . |