Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Badb 's cry was also to be feared as a death omen , it having been she who taught the BANSHEES to keen and wail . |
| 2 | It is a constant of any Minister 's experience — my hon. Friend referred to his experience as a Minister — that when a new scheme is introduced , there will always be somebody who did the same thing on his own initiative in the previous year and who feels that those who benefit from the newly introduced scheme are receiving an unfair advantage over the individual who took the real risk and did it himself . |
| 3 | Then suddenly , and sweetly , she began to realise that , since Travis was no more to her than a good friend , and she was still going to have her job at the end of all this , when it finally did end , it was going to be she who had the last laugh — and not N. Massingham Esquire . |
| 4 | Shape The most efficient sleeping bag would be one which followed the contours of your own body perfectly . |
| 5 | An example of such a calculation would be one which compared the images on the two retinas , and searched for differences which would provide information about relative distances . |
| 6 | An awards system which recognises only HNC and HND achievement would be one which ignored the majority of SCOTVEC 's candidates — there are almost ten National Certificate candidates for every one in Advanced Courses . |
| 7 | And then on the other side there used to be what they called the market . |
| 8 | It must have been he who telephoned the flat . |
| 9 | The principate of Severus probably saw the greatest expansion , and it is perhaps no coincidence that it may have been he who introduced the annona militaris , a tax paid in grain or other materials to meet the needs of the army . |
| 10 | After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions . |
| 11 | ( The medical/technical descriptions are what I understood the doctors to say not text-book definitions ) . |
| 12 | Course there 's nobody who loved the world more than what I did . |
| 13 | An IT system is one which satisfied the information requirements of an enterprise by bringing together a relevant combination of technologies which capture , generate , transfer , store or process information . |
| 14 | Tough it may be , but Washington is one who defied the odds to achieve world status in a sport not known for its liberal representation of blacks . |
| 15 | Susan is there she said the twenty first and I on the twenty first . |
| 16 | What 's it she said the other day something about |
| 17 | And that 's what they called the first automatic washer . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what they called the operation . |
| 19 | With the X mover that 's what they called the solution . |
| 20 | And the hours er the early that 's what they called the early men they went in at one o'clock . |
| 21 | That 's what we got the union for . |
| 22 | That 's what we got the union for . |
| 23 | That 's what we got the union for , to make sure that these things did not happen . |
| 24 | That 's what we had the row about . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ That 's what we did the first night we met . ’ |
| 26 | A thousand pounds a month , that 's what we set the plan up for . |
| 27 | That 's what we wanted the money for . ’ |
| 28 | That 's right , that 's what he had the other day when they came in There you are , good girl er , what 's the plan of action this afternoon ? |
| 29 | That 's what she said the other day . |
| 30 | That 's what I thought the trolley sounded like as we went through the green channel . |