Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the trouble is , I can go back to nineteen sixty four , Industrial Relations Act , which I thought was one of the best things ever bought out , whereby er the erm terms were levied to do so much training . |
| 2 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |
| 3 | I thought was one of the other books I ordered for you with regard to what they call it |
| 4 | I had been one of the twenty-eight ( twenty-six plus two tellers ) Conservative Members who voted on 29 July 1954 against the conclusion of the treaty with Egypt under which that evacuation took place . |
| 5 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 6 | If I had been one of their advisers when TV came along I would have said : ‘ Do n't meddle with it . ’ |
| 7 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 8 | I intended being one of the three people to live in Oxford Street , until I saw the place . |
| 9 | Theirs had been one of those childless , self-absorbing marriages which unconsciously repel attempts at intimacy . |
| 10 | By the end of the American war its establishment , which had been 2,738 in 1714 , had risen to 4,910 — twice as large as the rest of the financial administration . |
| 11 | Sales of polythene and PVC , which had been two of ICI 's mainstay products , had suddenly plummeted . |
| 12 | The innate vivacity which had been one of her main attractions , seemed to have deserted her . |
| 13 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
| 14 | The process , which had been one of the original aims of Schuman and Monnet , was to culminate in a formal treaty of friendship in 1963 . |
| 15 | Government involvement in the planning of the use of national resources , which had been one of the necessities of wartime , was continued by the Labour government as a matter of principle . |
| 16 | Well-meaning and pious , he was of mediocre intelligence and inherited the timidity which had been one of Louis XV 's greatest weaknesses . |
| 17 | However , the conference decided that the government should take action against those guilty of the deaths of Sikhs in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi 's assassination in 1984 [ see pp. 33220-21 ] , which had been one of the Sikhs ' main demands . |
| 18 | The population which had been 1,252 in 1861 fell to 853 in 1921 . |
| 19 | She 'd been one of the few sober people at Dave 's , in spite of the home-brewed beer . |
| 20 | Starring Anthony Hopkins , it was based on a book by an American journalist who 'd been one of the first people into the bunker after the allied victory . |
| 21 | There were many other people around from every age-group , yet the overall impression she received was one of unhurried leisure . |
| 22 | Among the most senior managers who participated were two of the UK 's best-known female executives : Sara Morrison , a board director at GEC ( and a non-executive director of Abbey National ) and Detta O'Cathain ( Baroness O'Cathain since June 21 ) , former managing director of the Milk Marketing Board , now managing director of London 's Barbican Centre and a non-executive director of Midland Bank , Tesco and Sears . |
| 23 | He said huskily , ‘ Let me , McAllister , ’ and began to unbutton her blouse , ‘ I want to stroke you , McAllister , and not your clothes , ’ and she made no effort to stop him , and when he bent his head to kiss the breasts he had fondled with his hands the cry which she gave was one of pleasure , not fear , for now it was Dr Neil loving her so carefully that the flood of pleasure was almost on her from that alone . |
| 24 | She had been nineteen like me , and youth , as I knew , even when its possessor is unattractive , has an appeal of its own . |
| 25 | Mungo wondered whether she had been one of the girls who was ‘ sweet ’ on Jos . |
| 26 | Unknown to them , she had been one of Tiller 's favourite leading ladies around 1906 , but when the work offers stopped she faced the same bleak future confronting all dancers who feel too old to dance . |
| 27 | Another woman in her mid-sixties said she had been one of eight raped by ‘ Serbian irregulars ’ . |
| 28 | She had been one of WTN 's best newsdesk assistants , extremely well-liked , very bright and good at the job , one of the busiest in the news room . |
| 29 | In London she had been one of the founding members of Bit . |
| 30 | A faint , ironic smile played about her mouth as she allowed herself , just for a minute , to imagine what the weekend could have held if she had been one of Dane 's legion of devoted followers . |