Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chairman of the Governors asked me was there a precedent in a flowing her to come into the interviews , and I said ‘ No , the precedent has already been set and that she was n't in on the other appointments . ’ |
| 2 | It was n't until I underwent hypnosis that I realised I was still a Catholic . |
| 3 | Putting a hand out for the clock , she found it was only a quarter to eight . |
| 4 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 5 | But her motives for writing seemed phoney — he believed it was just a form of competing with him and also imitation of Eleanor . |
| 6 | She believed it was still a struggle to address the needs and rights of black children in the care system , she said . |
| 7 | The Attlee administration , and Ernest Bevin in particular , believed it was only a matter of time before the British economy would recover . |
| 8 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
| 9 | She assumed it was only a temporary lapse in character while he nursed his head but she still determined to keep the conversation going for as long as possible . |
| 10 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 11 | She gave him a smile that showed she was still a little insecure , still not quite believing that Ace loved her . |
| 12 | Many stated it was also the point at which they ‘ realised ’ they were addicted . |
| 13 | Going to grammar school really made me isolated It was only a couple of miles away from where I lived but that 's a long way when you 're only 11 — years-old and all your mates from junior school had gone to the local comprehensive round the corner . |
| 14 | THE Duke of Edinburgh showed he 's still a master of horse at Scotland 's largest carriage driving event . |
| 15 | Lucier was accustomed to it : the wry grins as they acknowledged he was only a man in costume ; the superstitious snatching away of their hands for fear he was a little bit more . |
| 16 | In 1928 Green and Mellanby noted that though vitamin A was then known as the growth promoting vitamin , evidence from animal studies showed it was also an anti-infective vitamin . |
| 17 | Peter Alliss reckoned it was probably the end for Ballesteros if he had n't come roaring back by 1992 . |
| 18 | if we 're serious about that we need I think to review that very regularly , because I moved offices and discovered I was still a fire officer for a part of the office I was n't even part of , |
| 19 | Rehabilitated and well furbished it is now the pride of the waterfront . |
| 20 | Stunned by a Thameside painting by Whistler , it was only later that Strayhorn discovered it was actually a view of Battersea Bridge that he 'd admired ! |
| 21 | Recorder John Hugill , QC , placed him on two years ' probation after he heard he was now an ‘ emotional wreck ’ . |
| 22 | So we sat there and we decided he was obviously a musician . |
| 23 | At times I felt I was just a kind of palimpsest , or a blackboard that could always be wiped clean to make room for his own work . |
| 24 | Andropov produced a list of names with crosses against them , and I understood I was practically the last Presidium member who had not been ‘ sworn in ’ . |
| 25 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 26 | Thought I was just a wannabe nobody . ’ |
| 27 | I thought I was just a bit hyper , like everyone else . |
| 28 | I told the director to put that in his film but , of course , he thought I was just a mad old teapot . ’ |
| 29 | Yes , I suppose you 're right , he probably thought I was just a harmless English eccentric ! |
| 30 | I thought he was rather a funny man and he thought I was rather a funny girl . |