Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other interesting runner I rode was Auntie Dot , particularly as she has the advantage of being schooled over a National-type fence on her trainer John Webber 's gallops . |
| 2 | The counsel I used was an exceptionally suitable person , Sir Joseph Molony QC , the son of a Northern Ireland judge . |
| 3 | Apart from being sick and having to keep going to the loo I loved being pregnant . |
| 4 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 5 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 6 | The saddest story I heard was of a sheriff officer going to a door to collect items that were to be sold at auction . |
| 7 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 8 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 9 | The Squirrel I flew was appropriate for the task , being owned privately by a pilot who bought it new and had flown just 60 hours before it was introduced to me . |
| 10 | The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE . |
| 11 | yeah , it was , the bit I saw was that policeman when he goes although those two were up to no good |
| 12 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 13 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
| 14 | During the farmer 's eulogy I had been distractedly scratching the cow 's tail and had soiled my hand in the process . |
| 15 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 16 | Conserving what little money I had was therefore my number-one priority . |
| 17 | I know some people might think the decision I made was unpleasant and monstrous but I want to tell how I came to make the decision and the reasons behind it . |
| 18 | I BELIEVE the decision I made was commonsense — the right one in the circumstances . |
| 19 | The only other experience I had was playing Essie in Shaw 's play The Devil 's Disciple at Leeds … |
| 20 | I thinks the manufacturing experience I had was very important , because it enabled me to see things from the manufacturer 's point of view , which many retailers have n't done . |
| 21 | But the experience I had was fantastic and it did n't take long before my salary was considerably more than that . |
| 22 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 23 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 24 | I demurred , pointing out to Haines that as the chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association I had been very careful to avoid interfering with press stories in any way . |
| 25 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 26 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 27 | The card I had was a 2,400bps ( bits per second ) data modem , and a 9,600bps Class 2 fax modem . |
| 28 | The first dedicated fax card I used was the JTFax , which was purely a fax card and lacked a data modem . |
| 29 | and I put them in , and I look in my dictionary , they 're not there of course , cos my dictionary I had is from nineteen forty six |
| 30 | I have looked up my own record over the past six months , and I find that the only courthouse whose closure I approved was in Leicestershire and was precisely 500 yd from a new courthouse costing £8 million which we had erected to take its place . |