Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle . |
| 2 | Six years ago the only computer I 'd used was some horrid games machine a girlfriend had once become obsessed with . |
| 3 | All I did say is that ca n't see us out here . |
| 4 | One business outing I did attend was that of the Association of Independent Railways ( AIR ) board . |
| 5 | All I did know was that Scamp took a few steps forward into the street while stuffing home fresh cartridges . |
| 6 | The story I had heard was that , instead of John Philip Sousa being the great all-American bandmaster he was really an Englishman , born in Gosport , Hants . |
| 7 | All I had to eat was some chocolate Tony had left in the car , washed down by a can of beer in the freeze compartment . |
| 8 | The high-grade components I wanted to use were all okayed , too , and so Ampeg now have very high-grade systems which have filtered into the stuff that the other guys are designing . |
| 9 | At that moment all I wanted to hear was more of her story , but she 'd lost interest in that now . |
| 10 | Er , but the point I wanted to make was that , after trying for twelve months , first of all , er , I wrote to my local M P . |
| 11 | Significantly , the villages which tended to disappear were those with a low proportion of peasant proprietors ( 83 , p.28 ) . |
| 12 | She was no raving beauty , did n't have a model-like figure — all she 'd had was some money . |
| 13 | Where you went skiing is this side of Austria , but Vienna is about two hundred and two hundred and fifty miles further on across Austria , very close to erm Czechoslovakia and erm Yugoslavia . |
| 14 | Going ahead and it started with annual wage increases because the wage increases that you did get were all about three , four or five percent at the time . |
| 15 | But what she had to remember was that , however convincing he might sound on details , there was a hard core of fact that even Luke Hunter could never explain away . |
| 16 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 17 | Creeping up on one , all they managed to steal was some food . |
| 18 | One of the most important questions they had to consider was that of public health , including housing . |
| 19 | It is not surprising , therefore , that not only did he consider that he alone would set the pace , but also that the pace he chose to set was that of a dilatory gastropod . |
| 20 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 21 | Navjuvanov was dismissed , accused of corruption , and it appeared to have been this event which sparked off the rallies outside the parliament building in Shahidan ( " Martyrs ' " ) Square . |
| 22 | He told us that as a young man he had joined the Fire Service in which his father was a Lieutenant , and the first fire he had attended was this crash . |
| 23 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 24 | Moreover , the material upon which he had to work was that of the early stages of industrial capitalism and of the working-class political movement , so that in any case it would be essential to review his theory in the light of subsequent historical experience . |
| 25 | But one thing he was sure he had learnt was that Marriage was no part of any conspiracy , had indeed no useful friends left . |
| 26 | What had occurred was this . |
| 27 | In other words what had happened is that legal doctrine had drawn upon conflicting conceptions of the company to legitimate limited liability and to endorse the power conferred upon directors to manage the company . |
| 28 | What had happened was that , having marched in straight lines over open flat ground for a while , their paths had taken them close to a pebble . |
| 29 | What had happened was that Syl had , one evening , flushed with wine , remarked that he thought it would be a good idea if we got married . |
| 30 | What had happened was this . |