Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MR MICHAEL Howard , the Water Minister , yesterday effectively admitted that water shares have been underpriced as he formally closed the deadline for application amid City predictions that the issue will open at a premium of up to 30 per cent . |
| 2 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 3 | However , in Fagan the court held the accused to be guilty when he inadvertently parked his car on a policeman 's foot , realised what he had done , and refused to drive off . |
| 4 | She told him she did n't want to be his agent any longer if he did n't need her advice , though it would be pleasant if he ever wanted her friendship . |
| 5 | Of course , it would be different if he deliberately memorized the customers ' names or made a copy of them . |
| 6 | It would be different if you really did love him , but I do n't think you do … certainly not enough to make the kind of sacrifices that would be necessary if you did marry him . ’ |
| 7 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 8 | By this time I was sorely in need of a toilet , and it was her turn to be alarmed when she suddenly grasped the meaning of my frantic gestures . |
| 9 | Perhaps I should mention now I mean I I I 'm not fill in questionnaire 's but it would it would be helpful if you actually did erm fill in that before you actually leave this evening and leave it on the on the table on the way out if that 's possible I think that , that information which you put on them would be useful . |
| 10 | When he woke he gazed up at Dot almost as though he knew her , yet she could n't be sure if he really saw her , for his eyes had a distant faraway look like a sailor in the Navy staring across the Pacific seas . |
| 11 | ‘ We agreed it would be simplest if you only had to say your party piece once — once more I mean ’ Agnes went on briskly . |
| 12 | And the costs would be prohibitive if we even tried . |
| 13 | I 'd be happy if I never had to set eyes on you again ! ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps the nation 's mood would be cheerier if we simply had someone else in charge of our existing institutions ? |
| 15 | ‘ Except that you were right when you once accused me of having a personal prejudice . |
| 16 | His mother 's knuckles were white as she protectively gripped the plastic handles . |
| 17 | I thought she was just being awkward until she slowly went downhill and became incontinent . |
| 18 | Peter Northfield , public affairs manager for the Great Eastern division of BR 's Network SouthEast , said some commuters were angry because they normally used the carriage which had been taken over by protesters . |
| 19 | The gates were open so they just drove right in . |
| 20 | The upper rooms were silent when he finally went to his own room , but before getting into bed he pushed his wedge of broken chair-leg under the door to keep the Bogeyman out . |
| 21 | While Benjamin recognized the problem — for example , he discussed Fascist appropriations of the new reproduction technologies — it is doubtful whether he fully accepted its theoretical source : namely his virtual conflation of mass and class . |
| 22 | Strict feudalism was a highly artificial way of making land produce knights , and it is doubtful whether it ever existed outside the imaginations of historians . |
| 23 | Is this because they never had them or because they have lost them ? |
| 24 | he describes what happened that night and talks about how the memorial is important because he never went to the funerals ofhis colleagues . |
| 25 | he describes what happened that night and talks about how the memorial is important because he never went to the funerals ofhis colleagues . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , I know , ’ Hari said ruefully , ‘ I do n't suppose you realize how lucky you were to have things to sell , that 's more than I ever had , mind . ’ |
| 27 | Mm I do n't think it 's more because we soon had , started having our children did n't we ? |
| 28 | It 's worse than we ever had Where 's Miss gone ? |
| 29 | She wondered a little resentfully why he did not ask her to go , though she would have been scared if he actually had done so ; she lacked a North American youngster 's experience with the opposite sex . |
| 30 | Nathan had watched while I went under the rock , had been surprised when I vigorously stood up and had stood transfixed as I gently pitched forwards off the rock . |