Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 2 | ‘ Her qualifications were adequate but what hooked us was the photo she included . |
| 3 | As Shaffer added : ‘ What distinguished him was the energy he always demonstrated . |
| 4 | Perhaps what told him was the attention they paid to the drunk man who weaved his way , shouting and stumbling , down the car . |
| 5 | His about-face once in office pleased economists , but robbed him of his mandate : the voters no longer believed he was the man they had elected . |
| 6 | ‘ Most people assumed it was the Iranians who blew the whistle on North , McFarlane and Poindexter , ’ Coleman says . |
| 7 | Fred said , ‘ The only other time he ever ordered it was the night you rang us up in Leeds to say you 'd got the house and we could move in by the week we were spliced . ’ |
| 8 | I came here eight years ago from Unilever , and the standards I respected there are the ones I would try to uphold at Cancer Relief . |
| 9 | He did so well he has since won three England caps as a midfielder and Liverpool decided he was the man they wanted , although they have tried him back in his striking role in recent games . |
| 10 | What haunted her was the way he had kissed her — and how she had been unable to do anything but respond ! |
| 11 | He has denied he is on the verge of quitting — ‘ Im suprised if people thought I am the sort who takes my bat and ball home if I do nt get my way ’ . |
| 12 | The only people who really knew him were the labourers who helped out at the farm during the periods of sheep-shearing , haytime and harvest . |
| 13 | He did not recognize me but I knew he was the gentleman I had met on the stairs when visiting Miss Havisham . |
| 14 | She knew it was the thing she must n't do , must n't let herself be persuaded into , that it was death , the end , that there was no going back , you could never get back to the same position . |
| 15 | I thought it was the way you were sitting Bob |
| 16 | I packed it in I thought what 's the use I have n't got enough confidence |
| 17 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 18 | What bugged me was the way they sampled that line ‘ Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day ’ from the film Withnail and I. It was a shame , since what I liked was the way the album had its own space and logic . |
| 19 | In retrospect , the greatest disservice Charles Howard ever did me was the way he had somehow made it impossible for me to trust this man . |
| 20 | What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me . |
| 21 | But what really astonished her was the way she had responded to him just now in her office . |
| 22 | When I enquired what was the matter she said , ‘ I ca n't remember what my mummy looks like . ’ |
| 23 | But I said I am the money I gave him his first flying lesson , I paid for it , like I bought his first three cars . |
| 24 | To only a few had he been the devil who gloated over their private grief . |
| 25 | Oh we had it was the Airleys we had at that time . |
| 26 | ‘ Some even said it was the Russians who leaked the story after the failure of the Reykjavik summit . |
| 27 | I did n't say it was mine I said it was the people I 've spoken to . |
| 28 | Presently a man with greying hair and specs came in and said he was the doctor who was going to remove the polyps . |