Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How fortunate we have been over the years in our efforts to help this cause , for yet again the story is one of sunshine , success and soaring profits . |
| 2 | The Gala youngster acknowledges how fortunate he has been in the folk who have advised him along the way . |
| 3 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 4 | In the early 40s I remember being at the Hilker house off South Granville Street when Yehudi Menuhin was in town for a concert . |
| 5 | For many men the most important grieving they do is over the loss of their work when made redundant or on retirement . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ All I ask is for the manager to believe in me and to be wanted . |
| 7 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 8 | Now all we need is for The Stone Roses to resume their proper business ( which is making records ) and clear away all the current rubbish in the chart ( That would surely mean that The Stone Roses would have to release 100 singles which would all have to chart . |
| 9 | The doctors did all that all he had was in the leg . |
| 10 | All he wants is for the RAF to make sure it does n't happen again . |
| 11 | He says all he wants is for the lies to stop . |
| 12 | All it needed was for the envelope to be stuck down . |
| 13 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 14 | What little they spoke was in the specially reverent voice reserved by the middle classes for times of bereavement . |
| 15 | Let's have a look back and see how successful you have been in the past . |
| 16 | So that was nineteen eighty two , the first one we had was at the end of nineteen eighty four , which was at . |
| 17 | At a media briefing in the House of Commons , the five main polling organisations — Gallup , Harris , ICM , NOP and MORI — reminded political editors and other interested journalists how accurate they had been in the past . |
| 18 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 19 | A touch of ground frost is not uncommon , irrespective of how blazing hot it has been during the day . |
| 20 | Since the age of nine he 's been in the care of Wiltshire Social Services who paid for holidays with his grandparents in Spain . |
| 21 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 22 | Still , however difficult he had been in the good days , when they were all riding high , he was still most certainly loyal . |
| 23 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 24 | It was an ignoble , unworthy thought , he knew , but he was — now , anyway — only human , and therefore prey to human weaknesses , whatever sort of superhuman he 'd been during the War . |
| 25 | The closest it came was during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell in the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | Had seen , through the camera 's hidden eye , how fascinated she had been with the saddle . |
| 27 | Another approach to the competence question has been to ask clients , retrospectively , how satisfied they have been with the service they have had ( Rosenthal 1974 ) . |
| 28 | They had altered the street route system since last he 'd been in the place . |
| 29 | The picture ! — How eager he had been about the picture ! — and the charade ! — and an hundred other circumstances ; — how clearly they had seemed to point at Harriet . |