Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [be] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right some of our speakers are retires I I 've been retired quite a number of years , as you 'll have noticed I give the talk on income tax and I 'm a retired tax inspector . |
| 2 | Several hearings were held , and as a teacher involved with the family , and as someone who 'd been asked officially to ‘ socialise , them , Mr M was asked to give information to the Children 's Panel . |
| 3 | Someone who had been determined enough to escape from Colditz was unlikely to be put off by losing a couple of potential candidates , so the next in line was pushed forward . |
| 4 | Richard said , still sounding no more than irritated , and a trifle superior , like someone who has been held up on his way home by a street brawl . |
| 5 | But he had been there — he had watched someone he loved being drawn deeper and deeper into the morass . |
| 6 | Some years later , we are told , travellers brought back from Italy an account of the saint 's life , about which nothing had been known previously . |
| 7 | One evening we filmed at six o'clock a commercial which I 'd been handed in script form at five o'clock the same evening . |
| 8 | Jean-Claude had a different way of looking at moral issues from the one in which I had been brought up , and judged correct . |
| 9 | Rather than the in and out sort of capital which I think is reflected so much by overdraft financing . |
| 10 | Erm then Nick actually represents Nicholas Khrushchev which I think is spelt on here . |
| 11 | Er twenty eight percent for instance of all embryos er will be spontaneously aborted and in England and Wales mothers of large families , which I think was defined as more than six children , er had more spontaneous abortions than others . |
| 12 | Well , you 're sitting looking very smart here in a suit , which I suspect is made out of organic fibres and the tie , which I suspect is made out or artificial organic fibres , and the shirt looks remarkably artificial too . |
| 13 | Well , you 're sitting looking very smart here in a suit , which I suspect is made out of organic fibres and the tie , which I suspect is made out or artificial organic fibres , and the shirt looks remarkably artificial too . |
| 14 | Two serious illnesses which I have been told about , but can not remember , occurred before I was three . |
| 15 | This is the Chinese name by which I have been known ever since and which is my personal ‘ chop ’ . |
| 16 | The stony-hearted shore upon which she had been washed up was always in sight of a fretting , dull , menacing sea : potentially dangerous , urged on by the tide , looking for a killing . |
| 17 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
| 18 | The task required the child to select one of a series of plastic pieces varying in form , size and colour , and to tell the adult which one had been selected so that he could select the identical piece . |
| 19 | One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 . |
| 20 | It was a hot day but the valley was all bush apart from some enormous landslips , which we found were frozen underneath , like walking on a glacier . |
| 21 | But the welcome which we have been given here exceeds all others . |
| 22 | The Brahmins were custodians of the law , and the legal system which they administered was based largely on their pronouncements . |
| 23 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 24 | The dining area was the same canopy beneath which they had been interviewed earlier in the day , only now the matting was covered with carpets , some of them very fine , and an inverted ‘ U ’ of low square tables of some dark wood had been set out . |
| 25 | The main categories of change , and the processes through which they work are set out in Figure 2.5 . |
| 26 | The employees ' contracts should clearly state the length of the assignment for which they have been engaged together with details of procedures for termination of employment — both on behalf of the employer and the employee . |
| 27 | Gary McAllister' exquisite chip six minutes from time sparked a frantic late charge from the faded champions to salvage a replay from a disastrous six days in which they have been dumped out of Europe by Rangers and mauled 4–0 at Manchester City . |
| 28 | The collection , which he says was put together over the last twenty years , but most of which was acquired from the mid Eighties onwards in a sudden and unexplained burst of prosperity , consists of illuminated manuscripts , metalwork , coins and armour , mainly from the medieval Middle Eastern Islamic world . |
| 29 | He was wearing the tunic in which he had been shot down . |
| 30 | This proved sufficient until the reign of Charles I. He was one of ‘ the sticklers in the last Parliament ’ pricked sheriff in 1625 to prevent their election to the next ( although he was able to secure that of his son for New Shoreham ) , and in the following summer he was removed from the Sussex commission of the peace , to which he had been appointed only in 1624 . |