Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They giggled with bagels in a park strewn with dog-shit and broken bottles , and pretended it was New York . |
| 2 | Stella pretended it was Uncle Vernon in the coffin . |
| 3 | His face had gone into something soft that his nose told him was dog dirt . |
| 4 | In fact , Peggy remembered her own mam saying as how there were certain folk , including herself , who believed it were Luther Reynolds ' fault when his second wife died of the fever . |
| 5 | The other things which threw me were graphics accelerator particulars , caches , comms packages , architecture specifics ( SCSI ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 'eard 'e was orf work wiv 'is back . ’ |
| 7 | They were ghastly , the more discerning smokers vowed they were 50% weed , 50% elephant dung ! |
| 8 | Oh I forgot it 's bin day I 'll have to hurry back from school . |
| 9 | The man who opened it was Abul Ismail the physician . |
| 10 | He swore it was Bartholomew Burghgesh . ’ |
| 11 | I thought I was Terence Rattigan . |
| 12 | Maybe they really thought I was Franz Kafka . |
| 13 | I thought you were Sir Henry . |
| 14 | She thought , she thought she be Queen consort . |
| 15 | It was difficult to see what she was offering at first but as I took them from her I saw they were credit cards , an Access and a Visa , both made out in the name of Mrs J. A. Scamp . |
| 16 | Except I mean , if anybody thought they were oak cokin th coffin that would have to come from somewhere else . |
| 17 | At first I thought they were police cars . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought they were ballet dancers ! ’ |
| 19 | In those days that meant he was rarissima avis . |
| 20 | I turned round , and saw it was Isabella Heathcliff . |
| 21 | Turning her head , she saw it was Randy Sherwood imitating Mike to muddle her , and that he was the only player in pursuit and had now gained valuable distance . |
| 22 | When she saw it was Nick Frazer something very curious happened . |
| 23 | Peering round the end shelf as she heard the doorbell ping again , she pulled a face as she saw it was Mrs Beeson . |
| 24 | When she saw it was Alec d'Urberville lying there , she almost fainted . |
| 25 | Rachel crawled into the confined space beside him , and with a little jolt she saw it was Len Seager , the man who had been having alcohol-related problems . |
| 26 | She craned forward to look more clearly and saw it was Michael Swinton 's man , Punch , and that he was putting his horse , a great mangy thing , at the walls of the fields and leaping them and going on to the next as if he were steeplechasing . |
| 27 | So , ’ she drew herself up to her full height , her tight black dress clasping her full figure as though the material was pasted to her , ‘ so , ’ she repeated , ‘ I opened it to check the photograph and saw it was Ed Riverton 's . |
| 28 | Even from the back , I knew it was Private Boyd . |
| 29 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 30 | They saw a black Morris Cowley pull up in front of Hogan 's and knew it was Dr Johnson . |