Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pretended to be another friend , and asked for your phone number . " |
| 2 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 3 | I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice . |
| 4 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 5 | In the Sixties — with Charlton , Law and Best at United , Greaves at Spurs , Marsh at Rangers , Moore , Hurst and Peters at West Ham — you had to be some kind of deranged flagellant to choose a team that had n't won a thing since the Coronation . |
| 6 | They seemed to be all sizes . |
| 7 | They walked on , and after what they reckoned to be another mile they paused again and looked back at Dynmouth . |
| 8 | Soon , he lost track of time and it was after what he judged to be many days , he was heartened to hear , occasionally , the far-off sound of metal on rock as his friends tried to clear a way through to him . |
| 9 | He was small for his age , dark , large-eyed — in fact he seemed to be all Diane and almost nothing of his father . |
| 10 | It seemed to be all suckers and tentacles . |
| 11 | It seemed to be some kind of ferry , because they were being poled across from one side of the canal to the other — while they remained standing , like people on a packed London bus . |
| 12 | It seemed to be another fit like the last one , only worse . |
| 13 | He took the envelope from Sandison who also handed over what he believed to be enough money to cover the postage . |
| 14 | It depicted what he took to be some sort of religious ritual . |
| 15 | It appeared to be some disturbance of the atmosphere , a puckering slash of the ethereal epidermis itself . |
| 16 | It had to be that way . |
| 17 | When the verdict came down over the radio earlier that afternoon , I thought it had to be some kind of misunderstanding — a joke . |
| 18 | ‘ It had to be this colour and everything . |
| 19 | ‘ Simon reckoned he 'd adored you for years and that he intended to be that boyfriend , and he 'd make it happen by ensuring the two of you were together as much as possible . |