Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind .
2 erm er if there 's anybody who you feel erm next door or who have recently been married cos it 's obviously a great help to people who have just recently been married .
3 It involves visits to the homes of children who are either convicted offenders , children at special risk , or who have recently been involved in trouble and have come to the attention of the police .
4 Anyone who can see — or who has ever been able to see — is able to visualize .
5 Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry .
6 Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile .
7 No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact .
8 Neither oor Joy nor me have ever been handy .
9 Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country .
10 And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials .
11 ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept .
12 Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes .
13 Everything that I write here is true — I can not lie to you , or to God .
14 That I think perhaps is one of the striking differences between that and living in a house in Harlow , where you may or may not know your immediate neighbours .
15 ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) .
16 We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again .
17 Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination .
18 It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope .
19 The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 .
20 There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life .
21 After the yard was the house that was built for , and due , so much more life than I 'd ever been able to give it .
22 It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day .
23 Rumour had it that she had once been married , long ago , when she was very young .
24 Every other sound that she had hitherto been conscious of — the distant bleat of sheep in the field , the wind in the trees , the mewling cry of a hawk far above her — disappeared , vanished from her awareness .
25 When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative .
26 When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative .
27 Another rumour countered that she had always been unpleasant and had thus never had a love-affair , unhappy or otherwise .
28 Derek was confident that she had never been involved in anything subversive in her life or , for that matter , anything which was not completely dignified and fully reputable .
29 To tell Luke the truth , somehow force him to accept that she had never been involved with Florian in the way he imagined , might just possibly put an end to his — his persecution of her .
30 Was it true , what Maria said , that she had never been fair to Hester ?
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