Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it has been suggested I think Naomi 's saying on this side of the room that if there is an element of bad taste because the baby is chained up or whatever and it 's in er has had to be placed in an undignified or uncomfortable position in order to be photographed and Naomi 's question . |
| 2 | Although it has been electrofished I believe it 's not an efficient method of removing the smaller fish in the 4–5 oz bracket . |
| 3 | But just as a thought for you since the school 's are involved and since children are involved in a number of these things perhaps it has been tried I do n't know erm you might actually be able to get a more regular input not only from the children and their but also from their par ents by perhaps involving or asking the schools to become involved in the production of the programme . |
| 4 | Wherever it has been tried it has manifestly failed either to produce prosperity or to protect human rights . |
| 5 | ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’ |
| 6 | When it had been screened you 'd got to be in there and the malted barley would come out of a big hole just big enough to get a comb-sack through ; and it used to run into a big heap ; and you 'd got to be inside there a-throwing on it back so it did n't bung up the hole . |
| 7 | It 's been said he 's got a bigger investment in bricks and mortar in the Pas de Calais than Hitler had . |
| 8 | Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see . |
| 9 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 10 | Mm I bet it 's been twisted I 've had experience of things I 've said being in the paper and not coming out as I 've said them . |
| 11 | it was done in a very un-run way , because the notice , the notice was , was er it 'd be up about a couple of days and then it 'd come down , you see , so it did n't give anybody a lot of chance , but anyway now it 's been passed you see it goes ahead and that 's all there is to it , he , he has n't start doing it yet but |