Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] and be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened them to find that the priest had come in and was blandly regarding her and her father . |
| 2 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 3 | The Confederation of British Industry has come round and is now talking about 40 per cent . |
| 4 | Lucy knew it because whenever she started to talk about Christine , she 'd realise after a couple of minutes that they 'd moved on and were now talking about something else . |
| 5 | But by the ninth century this had degenerated into gross confusion , under cover of which the worship of Baal-Melqart , the official god of Tyre , had crept in and was widely corrupting faith in God . |
| 6 | Three had their convictions quashed by the Appeal Court earlier this year — the fourth had his appeal turned down and is still serving a life sentence . |
| 7 | The figures we have used are made up and are not intended to indicate any trend in Oxford . |
| 8 | Several species of Australian amphibian , amongst them some of the most beautiful and interesting in the world , have died out and are now thought to be extinct . |
| 9 | Environmental health officers have been called in and are now treating the problem . |
| 10 | Environmental health officers have been called in and are now treating the problem . |
| 11 | Environmental health officers have been called in and are now treating the problem . |
| 12 | The explanation is that , given a totally unvarying diet over a long period of time , especially if it is from kittenhood right through into adult life , a cat 's ‘ food variety mechanism ’ gets worn down and is finally switched off altogether . |
| 13 | The Germans who have been facing us all these weeks have pulled out and are now dug in in a thickly wooded area about three-hundred yards from No. 4 Commando . |
| 14 | Jinkwa had wheeled about and was now coming back over to them . |
| 15 | However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study . |
| 16 | The rabbit runs to a hole you have already ferreted and blocked up and is immediately mesmerised and does n't know where to go next . |
| 17 | At half-past nine she rang the police station and was told that DCI Harris had just gone out and was not expected back until after lunch . |
| 18 | Men and women were knocked down and were still assaulted and kicked on the flour . |