Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As time went on , and particularly by the early Seventies , I began to question whether one could take this point of view in a situation where things were going on which I clearly saw to be ‘ bad ’ . |
| 2 | The answer was a kick on the eyebrow which I almost mistook for being shot . |
| 3 | So I got er experience of three months now , that was really very nice experience which I always wanted to be a teacher although I did n't join here . |
| 4 | When I rejoined the conversation you were talking about your ‘ strikers ’ and your ‘ defenders ’ , by which I for a moment thought you meant the miners and their supporters , but which I then understood to be part of an extended football metaphor and to refer respectively to your Policy Unit and your Private Office . |
| 5 | He was particularly scathing about the feather , which she immediately agreed to be a mistake . |
| 6 | Although alienating some support by her excessive regard for the physiologically and morally uplifting properties of semen , she emphasized the erotic , mystical , and fulfilling aspects of sexual relations and for these reasons rejected the use of coitus interruptus and the condom , recommending instead the use of the vaginal rubber cap and the quinine ( spermicidal ) pessary which she naïvely believed to be generally available in chemist 's shops and which have never , in the event , proved to be very popular . |
| 7 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 8 | To make matters worse , the college authorities interpreted it as a reflection on the conduct and organization of the society , which they accordingly ordered to be disbanded with immediate effect . |
| 9 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 10 | Police searching the plaintiff 's premises for stolen goods seized goods which they mistakenly thought to be stolen . |
| 11 | But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway . |
| 12 | A former Travel Writer of the Year , Neil 's first word as a baby was ‘ wuhu ’ , which he later discovered to be a town on the Yangtze River . |
| 13 | Luke 's hand moved on , his light fingertip locating the tiny peak of sensitivity which he already knew to be utterly vulnerable to his skills , and Maria moaned softly as a pang of piercingly erotic sensation went thrilling through her . |
| 14 | In Harris v. Nickerson ( 1873 ) the plaintiff travelled to the advertised place for the auction sale which he then found to be cancelled . |
| 15 | A revelation which William James experienced when taking nitrous oxide took the form of doggerel , which he genuinely believed to be of enormous significance while he was under the influence of the drug : Higamous Hogamous , women are monogamous , Hogamous higamous , men are polygamous . |
| 16 | He was justifiably proud of this splendid work which he rightly considered to be his main literary achievement . |
| 17 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 18 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 19 | But her mind did not dwell long on what she privately felt to be a remote contingency — Lady Merchiston was so changeable ! |
| 20 | ‘ Nonsense , Saul ! ’ said Araminta , smiling in what she evidently felt to be a winning fashion . |
| 21 | The first Not the Nine O' Clock News series had a sketch about Python worshippers but that team , while itself worshipping Python , went out of its way not to be derivative , eschewing silly voices , dressing in drag and what they later realised to be a misogynist trait in Python . |
| 22 | As the couple turned away , the wife was grumbling that her husband had missed the chance of what they now considered to be the best prospect . |
| 23 | He was unsurprised to find her packed off firmly to take his sister home , leaving him as a person of major importance in what he instantly assumed to be a real murder . |
| 24 | A revealing passage from Khrushchev 's memoirs , citing a letter written by the Soviet premier to Castro in late 1962 , shows his complete insensitivity to the Cubans ' wounded national pride and barely conceals his irritation at what he evidently believed to be ingratitude on Castro 's part . |
| 25 | The tie he had unearthed from the neglected depths of his jacket pocket was badly creased and stained with what he strongly suspected to be taramosalata . |
| 26 | His first book , War and Trade in the West Indies , 1739–1763 ( 1936 ) , a tour de force based on immense research , was infused throughout by his pursuit of what he once declared to be his prime interest in history — ‘ to find out how things worked ’ . |
| 27 | In case Laing was unfamiliar with it , he told the young man what he now knew to be true . |
| 28 | Repeating a five-year-old falsehood about his nationality , he applied for a one-year renewal of his passport on 24 September 1938 and , on this occasion , repeated what he now knew to be false that he was British by birth . |
| 29 | He began to run towards the car , but the ground heaved under him and he fell sprawling , a few centimetres from the head of what he now guessed to be the Worm . |
| 30 | His lecture took as its starting point the distinction drawn by the Wolfenden Committee between public and private behaviour , and what it thus considered to be the proper role of the criminal law in these areas . |