Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If all the blokes I knew were like you then I 'd be better off with another girl , would n't I ? ’ she said scornfully . |
| 2 | It 's simply the way that I 've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed . |
| 3 | First two cases I took were missing persons . |
| 4 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 5 | I entered into the spirit of the occasion by volunteering as one of about twenty stage guinea pigs , but within minutes I had been weeded out and sent back to my seat . |
| 6 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 7 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 8 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 9 | It was good , everybody had told me that erm , you know , you did n't get very much money when you left school , about ten shillings and to offer me fifteen shillings I thought was out of this world , so erm |
| 10 | The legs I saw were white . |
| 11 | And Ray er Mr from Nottingham says , I used to work for a circus , I 'm an animal lover and all the animals I saw were treated very well . |
| 12 | I had n't planned that and what funds I had were coming here to the States . |
| 13 | and it being full of , of animals , most of them nasty animals , that would frighten you , like snakes and squirrels , I do n't know why squirrels , and , and like I had a picture in my mind , I ca n't remember whether it was the swimming baths I 'd been to , or whatever , like you know how they , quite often they have little ramps , or maybe they do n't , but the ones I 'd been to had ramps , stairs going up to them or whatever , |
| 14 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 15 | During the previous six months I had been able to keep a more watchful eye on the whereabouts of the elusive Charlie , thanks to the help of a young officer Daphne had introduced me to who worked in the War Office . |
| 16 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 17 | My mother always maintained that the first words I said were " Go yay , " which meant " Go away " and showed an independent spirit . |
| 18 | Both styles are well finished , a satin stain/varnish has been used to good effect , the eye is well placed high on the body and on all of the floats I received was free of varnish . |
| 19 | Well , Felipe could n't go to that woman anyhow because she was with her husband no matter what signals she had been giving Felipe . |
| 20 | Although SDPJ leader Takako Doi had wanted to field more candidates she had been prevented from so doing by pressure from sitting socialist members of the Diet . |
| 21 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 22 | The words she had been about to say died on Hari 's lips . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry , ’ he repeated , and the smile he gave her was so gentle that the angry words she had been going to utter died , locked somewhere in her throat . |
| 24 | The words you spoke were frenzied prayers |
| 25 | ‘ He said he 'd see you today , ’ Dana said , perching on the edge of Claudia 's desk , scattering the designs she had been working on , much to her annoyance . |
| 26 | The recordings you made were mainly smaller-scale pieces . |
| 27 | Clothes were all very well , they were her father 's life and she knew that all the privileges she enjoyed were hers because of clothes and the stupendous success they had brought him , but she could n't care about them . |
| 28 | Among the other seven books she published are a fine pioneering critical study of Virginia Woolf ( 1932 ) ; The Astonishing Island ( 1933 ) , a satire ; a feminist treatise , Women and a Changing Civilisation ( 1934 ) ; Truth is Not Sober and Other Stories ( 1934 ) ; and a collection of poems , The Frozen Earth ( 1935 ) . |
| 29 | Emilia showed little wish to speak , Louisa had to content herself with reading aloud beside the bed , though the books she suggested were soon rejected in favour of such verses as those of Felicia Hemans and Anna Letitia Barbauld — works that were not at all to her own taste . |
| 30 | She could n't remember the details , only the sense of confusion that everything was different — the language , the schools she had been sent to one after another . |