Example sentences of "be [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First impressions are that he offered them a recipe of component parts from many different guitars and the result is a sort of nouvelle cuisine which leaves this weary plucker scratching his head . |
| 2 | Ms Armstrong considers Mr Fallon to be sexist : the reason appears to be that he called her a woman . |
| 3 | ‘ All I know is that it cost me a lot of money to learn . ’ |
| 4 | The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due . |
| 5 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |
| 6 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 7 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 8 | In effect , what The Times was saying was that it knew what the ‘ real ’ stories were and that only dictators prevented such stories from being told . |
| 9 | That , I believe , was because we moved him a bit upmarket in his packaging , and gave him more thriller-style covers . |
| 10 | That was before he told you the news ? ’ |