Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
| 2 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 3 | He sat up and gave her a quick smile which she supposed was meant to be reassuring . |
| 4 | The room in which we lunched was referred to as the ‘ salon ’ . |
| 5 | These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G-BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft . |
| 6 | Mr Shrigley said two of the women had died from the serious illnesses for which they had been admitted to the hospital . |
| 7 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 8 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 9 | The book which he wrote was circulated to the English universities and he then became a member of a mission to Italy to press the divorce on the Pope . |
| 10 | An environmental activist prior to his appointment in 1990 [ see p. 37312 ] , Lutzemberger had been outspoken in his criticism of Brazilian institutions which he believed were contributing to environmental destruction , particularly that of the Amazon rainforest . |
| 11 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 12 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |
| 13 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 14 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 15 | She could n't remember who she had been talking to . |
| 16 | She 'd replaced the receiver instantly and refused to tell him who she 'd been speaking to , but then , as now , there was something challenging in her expression . |
| 17 | They wanted to give the notebook to Chris Bonington who they thought was coming to Kazakhstan in July . |
| 18 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 19 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 20 | She spoke to the prince , she even looked at the prince , but what she said was addressed to the man who sat withdrawn at the prince 's elbow . |
| 21 | And when she reflected , as she frequently did , upon what she had been bred to , she was profoundly puzzled by her own origins . |
| 22 | Its sign consisted of a portrait of a woman 's head , styled in what she guessed was intended to be Tudor fashion . |
| 23 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 24 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 25 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 26 | The ammunition was soft-nosed , not what he 'd been used to but the only kind that was allowed for hunting . |
| 27 | What he did was to go to Holy Trinity Church and look at the parish records where he found that his parents ' wedding date was also May — the 27th . |
| 28 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |