Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [pron] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 But of course , Agnes realised , Sims — or whoever he 'd been born — must once have been on the far side of The Wall , too .
2 " The Independent " argued that it could not in natural justice be bound by an order made against another newspaper , on different facts , and which it had been given no opportunity to oppose .
3 He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent .
4 Her father had been maimed while on duty in Ireland , and she herself had been sold into virtual slavery there , where she had been seduced and made pregnant .
5 He respected the law , and everything he said was qualified by it .
6 Further , as a result of his youth , he had not known the great days of English victories in France , although these had been concerned with the activities of his father , and he himself had been born in Bordeaux not long before his father had crossed to Spain to win his final victory .
7 The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s .
8 Officers employed in northern Europe , where much of the navy was inevitably disposed , had little patronage at their disposal , and what they got was obtained only after a battle with the Board of Admiralty .
9 Coopers ' determination was a brief letter referring to the sale agreement and what they had been asked to determine , and stating the answer : " We determine that the sales amount to £2,527,135 " .
10 She instructed them on what had happened and what she had done , and what she recommended be done next .
11 Here , however , all similarity between the piece Lucien was familiar with and what he saw being performed before him ended .
12 My hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , South-West was right about car security and what he said was reflected in the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden , who urged us to do more about car security .
13 But everything he said was treated with almost obsessive distrust .
14 She would then speak as if talking to herself , but what she said was aimed at me and usually struck to the core of my being , so that I was stunned into silence …
15 She spoke to the prince , she even looked at the prince , but what she said was addressed to the man who sat withdrawn at the prince 's elbow .
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