Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All I did was think of it . ’ |
| 2 | All he did was yell at me to get out of his trailer . ’ |
| 3 | And although Big Flame was never an ‘ entryist ’ party-within-a-party , like some of the Trotskyite groups , including Militant Tendency , everyone who had been part of it remained friends . |
| 4 | Not that he did n't know its history — he had been part of it , if only as a silent witness of his brothers ' refusal to join the Fenian organisation which had started trying to recruit the young men of their day . |
| 5 | He 's a Russian émigré — came out just after the Revolution , although he had been part of it himself , and I do n't think he 's ever really settled down to ordinary life . |
| 6 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 7 | I wondered whether Robert and Lili had spoken so often like this that neither had any longer the energy to shout , or whether there never had been anger between them . |
| 8 | It had been worship of him that had aroused Michael 's interest in boxing . |
| 9 | Both her mother and Lisa had been cross with her ; they both had felt she ought to settle down . |
| 10 | He had been prodigal with them . |
| 11 | The minority , which could muster only 160 votes against the majority 's 855 , displayed considerable bitterness towards what they said was pressure on them to accept independence , and threats that they would lose their jobs or worse . |