Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [vb past] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No , another he said was that bloke came in later .
2 All I thought was that health monitor basically follows it but it just needs a , a little bit of clarification so that everybody knows exactly when forms are supposed to be produced .
3 All I had were some trout in the freezer by courtesy of the millpond .
4 All I saw were this pair of legs sticking over the desk and him going aaaaagh !
5 Contrariety will only appear here if it is specified that apples ( or pears ) constituted the whole of the purchase : All I bought were some apples/pears .
6 At school , all I learned was that sex was wicked .
7 All she had were some notes she made in the car , witnessed by Dexter .
8 Here , all we needed was enough food , and people to watch for enemies .
9 All they felt was another thump as the lorry bounced gently off the far side of the road and down the lane that ran towards the railway .
10 Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so
11 An article in the Jewish Chronicle last year , in which Wesker wrote that all he wanted was enough money to give the play a chance to be seen in London led to a benefactor , who wishes to remain anonymous , phoning him up and offering to underwrite the venture to the tune of £13,500 .
12 It might be the name of a character ( there was one already he was sure sounded familiar ; it was one of his bits of Evidence ) , it might be the description of a place or a sequence of events … all he needed was that Key .
13 All it took was this fifty-pound note and people not giving me another chance … ’
14 All it needed was some heat .
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