Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 2 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 3 | I missed out at geography , which I loved , English Lit , French , art and maths , all of which were subjects I enjoyed . |
| 4 | and when you 're kids they seemed so big ! |
| 5 | Er recordwise it never happened and does never seem to happen but we can go to America and work in the Irish centres and the Irish clubs and be an Irish band but er the way we could come over here and do a concert to people in general , it does n't I think the radio situation in America for years was al always very if you were folk you played in folk programme , if you were country you 'll play in the country prog whereas here in Britain there 's one great thing with the radio system , people tend to play whatever you know if it 's easy listening programme they play whatever is is nice and easy listening you know . |
| 6 | And when you were pros you did , you got all the mucky jobs to do as well . |
| 7 | Yeah she 's Katie she bought what were her chances of re-ordering it you know |
| 8 | We were daitlers we worked on the In the stone , you see ? |
| 9 | Yeah the master walked past , if they had been boys they would have said something , you know , go into your study and do some work , do something you know , but because they were girls th we were girls they did n't |
| 10 | There are others he did n't buy and wants to unload , like Tony Cottee who cost £2.2m , but they 're on such big contracts other clubs ca n't afford their wages . |
| 11 | ‘ Paysage d'Harfleur ’ , dated 1900 , reveals his debt to the Impressionists , and there are works he painted on first arriving in Paris , after ten years spent at Le Havre with Dufy and Friesz . |
| 12 | I must admit however that there are texts I used frequently with girls which I have not chosen to read with a mixed class , feeling that they would not attract the attention of the boys . |
| 13 | ‘ There are things I hoped you 'd never find out , Harriet , ’ he said' . |
| 14 | There were rivers he visited as a child where he could sit and watch water voles every day . |
| 15 | Even while he admired Nona and loved her , there were times he wanted to say : ‘ Look , Nona , there is this thing you have to take into account between us . ’ |
| 16 | There were disadvantages he had to get used to . |
| 17 | He told them how Howard 's words had shaken him , and said , ‘ There were things we did with the Security Forces in the forests of which I am not at all proud . |
| 18 | ‘ There were things I loved about the area and things I hated , ’ she said . |
| 19 | He realised that there were things he had done ; but now he did nothing . |
| 20 | Besides , there were things she had to do . |
| 21 | There were things she had not told them . |
| 22 | She wanted Roman 's arms around her , she wanted to feel him againt her without the barrier of clothes , but there were things she had to say before she could allow that to happen . |
| 23 | It was difficult not knowing if we 'd be able to give Eleanor everything we wanted to give her and knowing there were things she needed that we could n't afford . |
| 24 | There were questions she needed to ask Butler , but not yet , not now and not here . |
| 25 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 26 | Ferenc Puskas was Major Puskas and during the 1956 uprising there were reports he had been killed . |
| 27 | Mr Catterall said they never found the dog but there were signs it had been dug out by someone else . |
| 28 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 29 | No-one knew quite what he did in there but there were rumours he drank tea with his furniture and wrote furiously on the walls in a language only he understood . |
| 30 | ‘ Sure , there were mistakes we made at the beginning . ’ |