Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [be] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You were testing me out , to see if — if I 'd stopped being timid with men , is n't that it ? ’
2 A vengeful Mrs Wallace Reid turned over to police all the names of those she believed had been responsible for Wally 's debauched lifestyle .
3 The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back .
4 It was announced on April 5 that Japan had further agreed to revise , within one year , certain laws on the retail sector which the USA had claimed were monopolistic in character .
5 For example , the time to decide that the target word snow had occurred was faster for sentence ( a ) than for sentence ( b ) :
6 And if an HP buyer returned the goods and terminated his agreement , what he had to pay was subject to regulation .
7 The problem which the Phillips-Lipsey model then had to confront was one of measurability : not a directly observable magnitude .
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