Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was no raving beauty , did n't have a model-like figure — all she 'd had was some money . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But one thing he was sure he had learnt was that Marriage was no part of any conspiracy , had indeed no useful friends left . |