Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I THOUGHT I was still standing and then I realised I was on the floor . ’ |
| 2 | She just had to turn out , and there was nothing coming down , foot down , opened up , got I was at the top of the hill and she was nowhere in sight . |
| 3 | Anyway I smiled and I wheedled and he let me be without the gag and he let me look round . |
| 4 | I found I was outside the tent , standing up with my jacket clutched to me , the better to see them . |
| 5 | Of course , it was useful to both Romania and China to let Moscow know how deeply involved they were with the Americans , because such knowledge could deter Moscow from interfering in their internal affairs . |
| 6 | When she came to with a start she found they were in the car park below the ruins of the castle in Haverfordwest . |
| 7 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 8 | To his relief he found he was above the trees and looking down into a murkiness that was beginning to map itself below him into defined and recognizable shapes . |
| 9 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
| 10 | From the deadness of sound , I judged I was in the main roof-space . |
| 11 | We started accumulating works of art and people just assumed I was in the business . |
| 12 | Nobody even noticed I was in the room ! |
| 13 | When Adrian writes ‘ Nobody even noticed I was in the room ! ’ with its exclamation mark of outrage at the end , part of us says ‘ Of course they did n't notice . |
| 14 | A well-preserved and slightly more elaborate example is a large limestone statuette in the Louvre ( fig. 12 ) , known as the Lady of Auxerre since when first noticed she was in the museum there . |
| 15 | The joint team established that the temperature of the electrons in the T-3 tokamak really was as high as the Soviet scientists estimated they were on the basis of their less-direct measurements . |
| 16 | Just when it seemed they were on the slide they nit Leicester with all they had , running in seven tries in a 37–6 victory . |
| 17 | Sean was intent on not coming back as he believed he was in the right , but he did feel very upset . |
| 18 | When she woke it was to the incessant chattering of the wheels against the rails and Emily thought she would never arrive at her destination . |
| 19 | He stayed on , though it seemed he was on the point of departure , for moments together , stuck to his own indecisiveness like an insect on the tacky strips of paper designed to catch them . |
| 20 | But when one came it was on the break , Tovalieri getting Bari 's third . |
| 21 | There is not a suggestion that one of these missiles were returned ; there is not one suggestion which can be made by anybody , no matter how evilly disposed he is to the organizer of the procession or to the purpose of the procession , that any violence was offered by a member of that procession . |
| 22 | And er god you should of heard him , god if it ai n't Ross all over again , mummy , mummy and she left him there , as I said when they first came he was in the far bedroom , well now I suppose with all these people she 's rearranged it indoors and he 's in the one next to our house , and she 's shouting at him and er it went on how , I ca n't tell you how long , I mean , Bev and I was talking through bedrooms you know |
| 23 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 24 | For a minute she did n't know where she was and , as she realised she was at the farm , fear stayed firmly with her . |
| 25 | Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’ |
| 26 | But police have told Adrian that even though the driver admitted she was in the wrong , she 's unlikely to be prosecuted . |
| 27 | As the news of Diana 's snubs emerged , Royal author Andrew Morton claimed she was on the verge of leaving the Royal Family . |
| 28 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 29 | The Labour leader said that in her supposed splendid isolation from Europe , Margaret Thatcher showed she was from the Greta Garbo school of diplomacy . |
| 30 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |