Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
| 2 | The fame of mind I 've been in from the beginning , ’ he says , ‘ is a belief in the spirit : it moves me , it 's in my heart . |
| 3 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 4 | ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again . |
| 5 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 6 | I 'll tell you a lovely story when we had the Queen at the day before when we had had the dress rehearsal I 'd been out to erm London to pick erm up an old lady who 's now dead , who very seldom got out and was pretty well house-bound to come and see the rehearsal as a little Sunday treat |
| 7 | ‘ Mind you , it 's no wonder she 's been out of sorts after that dreadful business at the tech … and Major Ford tittle-tattling all over the village . ’ |
| 8 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 9 | we 're gon na have to go through the exercise you 've been through of identifying the right ponds . |
| 10 | The earliest temple-sculpture we possess is not from a Doric temple but from an attempt to monumentalise the old form . |
| 11 | If there were no need for sheltered workshops because disabled people were fully integrated into ‘ normal ’ society , then it would be a gain ; but if , as I suspect , in these hard times it is impossible for many severely disabled people to get a job of any sort , surely the lack of opportunity to go to work is a loss — even if the kind of work they do is far from ideal . |
| 12 | coach and if it comes out like Helen and Pete like that and they 're , they 're gone and the others have n't , no wonder it 's been up on your wall |
| 13 | The centre ground of British politics remained the same uncertain terrain it had been ever since 1918 . |
| 14 | ‘ Then the fact that she will will be a sign to us that the hope she gives is not in vain . |
| 15 | Do n't become frustrated if the particular book or journal you want is not on the shelf where you 'd expect to find it , just when you want it . |
| 16 | One spring evening we had been out to dinner and came back to find Clare bounding downstairs with excitement . |
| 17 | But otherwise the meaning they carry is not of a radically different sort from that carried by lexical roots , and grammatical and lexical elements frequently interact semantically . |
| 18 | In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch . |
| 19 | I mean he 's , I think we 'll miss him , but I think he 's entitled to a move he 's been here for a little while |
| 20 | The allegiance he needed was now to hand . |
| 21 | We 'd been certain that Frank had been kept with a Frenchman in the apartment we 'd been in from February to early May . |
| 22 | Another decade was to pass before it really sank in , and he could write , ‘ What an ass I have been both for not knowing and for thinking I knew . |
| 23 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 24 | Since his sly suggestions of Thursday midnight she had been unremittingly at war with him , though they still ostensibly shared a bed . |
| 25 | On waking each day she had been out of temper . |
| 26 | The other night she 'd been in with him . |
| 27 | The previous night we had been well on course for it . |
| 28 | Steve Kay , the friend he 'd been out with , says it 's just an example of how Swindon 's becoming a dangerous place to live in . |
| 29 | When I was eventually connected with my Commander-in-Chief I was to learn that this was the first night he had been abed in 13 consecutive nights of operations . |
| 30 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |