Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd forgotten you 'd been in it . ’ |
| 3 | The first time he 'd seen her had been at Dave 's , and Dave had kept a possessive arm round her all evening , warning others away . |
| 4 | Since he had a lady so much more deserving than myself , I could have wished I had been of his sex and then there never would have been a more perfect friendship . |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't have known you 'd been in computers . ’ |
| 6 | The last time 29 year-old Simon Wadland 's family heard from him was a week ago , when he called to say he 'd been in an accident outside a Banbury Bank and was going to the local hospital . |
| 7 | Adam would have to admit he had been in the wrong , had been extremely negligent , criminally careless really , in allowing any Tom , Dick and Harry access to Wyvis Hall . |
| 8 | And finally I can just look at erm draft planning policy guidance thirteen , it is very easy to lift one or two sentences out of either the draft planning policy note , or indeed the Ecotech report which underpins it , erm , I think if a full reading is made of that , what comes across strongly in the research is that there is a very complex relationship between urban forms and transport patterns , and indeed erm I think the advice in P P G , er draft P P G thirteen is prefaced with a note that erm , transport issues are , will be erm , there are very few general principles , if any , and local er considerations will influence the er the importance of this iss issue very considerably , what I think draft P P G thirteen does invite us to do is to more overtly look the transportation implications of alternative settlement patterns , and that 's all . |
| 9 | Half the drivers surveyed said they 'd been in a skid … most reckon they can handle one |
| 10 | I went to post it in the index book I 've got it 's stopped it 's been in |
| 11 | MEGADETH have revealed they 've been in group therapy for the past three years . |
| 12 | Research into technological innovation has generally assumed that although shifts have occurred they have been within a stable organisational framework . |