Example sentences of "be [art] [noun sg] [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had once been the master bedroom and looked out on the woods to the east . |
| 2 | It may not have been the plane journey that got to him , of course . |
| 3 | It could quite easily have been the job connection that led to her life-long friendship with comedian , Jimmy Tarbuck . |
| 4 | It has always been a corn mill and continued working , somewhat sporadically , up to the middle of the 1950s . |
| 5 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |
| 6 | For Courtney this was a return to Africa , for he had been a big-game hunter and had once canoed down the Nile from Lake Victoria . |
| 7 | It took the head of household — the husband , usually — to be the tax payer and assumed that wives , for example , were somehow uninterested in the tax bill or did not contribute to it . |
| 8 | Jane used to be a girl guide and gained her Baden Powell Trefoil . |
| 9 | Before her accident the plaintiff wanted to be a conference organiser and had intended to go into hospitality management as a career . |
| 10 | ONLY three weeks into his term , South Africa 's President , FW de Klerk , took what may turn out to be a milestone decision and announced the unconditional release of all but one of the black activists jailed more than 20 years ago in the Rivonia treason trial . |
| 11 | She had once studied to be a concert pianist and had been a pupil of Paderewski in Dresden in the summer of 1921 . |
| 12 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 13 | The permanently curved backbone of the American buffalo is similar to that of the duckbill species of dinosaur , confirming that they were a browsing animal that had adapted to the changing growth pattern of vegetation . |
| 14 | Er yeah and if you were a , if you were a rightist cadre that had doubts about all this and actually wanted to go the slow more moderate line , you could also find enough in here to be able to , to sort of curtail things a bit ? |
| 15 | I gave up being a bird watcher and succumbed to the delicious trippery feel of sun on my back and sand on my front . |
| 16 | One is the base/superstructure relationship that considered alone appears a mechanistically determined one . |
| 17 | The Highwaymen is a country coalition that began in 1984 and is now touring Europe . |
| 18 | In terms of active , practical government and politics , however , it was the Investiture Contest that had already begun to change the face of European government . |
| 19 | And it was the home side that opened their account first , through Paul Kitson . |
| 20 | And it was the corn shop that started selling the dog and cat biscuits . |
| 21 | And it was the scum players that f-ed it up . |
| 22 | Another useful by-product of using a lorry engine was the air compressor that came with it . |
| 23 | Again it was the auto industry that led the way in the early Fifties after suffering two costly setbacks . |
| 24 | ‘ It was the razor blades that did it for me , ’ he reckons . |
| 25 | I 'm gon na write , if that , if it was the drama teacher that said that I 'm gon na write to her , I 'm gon na put copy to Mr |
| 26 | And it was the apple barrel that saved our lives . |
| 27 | Hope nodded but it was the business scheme that had caught his imagination . |
| 28 | But it was the news pages that had really gone off the rails . |
| 29 | The bane of Sylvie 's life was the pigeon droppings that littered the windowsill and had to be cleaned up daily . |
| 30 | ‘ I was the class clown and enjoyed being the centre of attention . |