Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Many stated it was also the point at which they ‘ realised ’ they were addicted . |
| 5 | Peter Alliss reckoned it was probably the end for Ballesteros if he had n't come roaring back by 1992 . |
| 6 | Rehabilitated and well furbished it is now the pride of the waterfront . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | I thought she 's just the type of person which everybody would avoid to speak to , this girl ! |
| 10 | So far as she knew they were only the result of an innocent friendship , so why Feargal 's anger ? |
| 11 | It was perhaps a little early to be certain , but he thought they were probably the best things he had ever done . |
| 12 | As far as quality of play went it was probably the worst since I took over . ’ |
| 13 | He said , with his back to me , until you went away I thought it was just the usual thing . |
| 14 | I wonder whether he thought it was just the way the English talked , or whether he thought I was peculiar … |
| 15 | At first , I thought it was just the Luciferi but , on one occasion , I am sure it was due to intervention from the English court . ’ |
| 16 | I moved up to there , and I want to bring everybody up to my new level , so I sort of drag everybody up , but I always thought it was just the , the inertia effect , you know , that I could n't have a mental and physical and moral energy to last everybody out wh , while they would change effectively . |
| 17 | However , he thought it was probably the second language of no fewer than ninety per cent of Tanzanians . |
| 18 | I thought it was probably the other one who had rung , on the cadge . ’ |
| 19 | Her routine never varied by a second and Honor thought it was probably the spell of freedom after luncheon which enabled her to remain sane . |
| 20 | I thought it was still the term time . ’ |
| 21 | At first he thought it was merely the effect of looking too hard , and he blinked his eyes twice . |
| 22 | I never re realised we 're doing a module in the eighth year was environment , I always thought it was always the ninth year ? |
| 23 | Grierson , in fact , lived a singularly carefree and untroubled existence but Talbot thought it was hardly the time to point this out to him . |
| 24 | That is , he thought he was still the amiable , easy-going champion he had been , when in reality he was a harried man who was beginning to learn about defeat and humiliation . |
| 25 | Thaw , 50 , admitted it was probably the huge success of the opera-loving sleuth Morse that clinched the award . |
| 26 | It was often said that her new-found reputation was a bubble that would burst once people realized it was just the raunchiness of her work that got her a wide readership . |
| 27 | He gave her a wide toothy grin , and immediately realized it was exactly the wrong approach . |
| 28 | And I remembered it was here the dumb woman lived . |
| 29 | ‘ Tommy told me all about you , said you were probably the best lay in the platoon . ’ |
| 30 | He said they were there the whisky was flowing you know hypocrites ! |