Example sentences of "and [pron] [be] [verb] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'm fascinated to have met you — Tante Héloise . |
| 2 | Oh dear I must rush home because it 's half past nine and I 'm going to get told off |
| 3 | ‘ This is my room and I 'm going to get changed ! ’ |
| 4 | Every British geology student knows about the " liver-coloured " quartzite pebbles which are found in our Triassic conglomerates ( referred to earlier ) and which are said to have come all the way from the Ordovician " Gres Armoricain " and " Gres de May " of Brittany ( plate 1.13 ) , even though this implies the transportation of pebbles up to 20 or 30 cm diameter for several hundred kilometres up to the English Midlands . |
| 5 | Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams . |
| 6 | If , if , if it 's given you a slightly different slant on it , and you 're thinking has changed . |
| 7 | And she is believed to have banked £10 million since being booted out of Downing Street two years ago . |
| 8 | Not even George Herbert 's counsel that the country-parson 's rage might here and there be justified had comforted . |
| 9 | My Knights plod around spiking them with their lances , but it 's such boring work and they 're beginning to feel defeated by sheer numbers . |
| 10 | The band of the Discharged and Demobilised Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Association performed for the patients and they were reported to have enjoyed another concert which included lantern views . |
| 11 | In a private agreement made a few months after the treaty was concluded , Bruce restored Henry Percy 's Scottish lands and he is said to have promised to restore the lands of Henry Beaumont and Thomas Wake of Liddel . |
| 12 | St Magnus joined Hakon in suppressing Viking lawlessness in the Northern Isles and he is said to have married a daughter of a Scottish chieftain — both parties preserving their chastity for ten years . |
| 13 | But a clutch of corporate giants are believed to have expressed interest in corporate membership , though , at a cost of £4,750 and he is reported to have acquired access to the list of 13,000 North West gold card holders . |
| 14 | By the time he was forced out of office by the Watergate scandal in August of that year , observers were openly speculating as to whether he had become mentally unhinged and he was said to have lost his will to live . |
| 15 | The following day Özal met with US President Bush at Camp David , and he was thought to have briefed the US administration about the Turkish government 's recent talks with Iraqi Kurdish leaders in Istanbul [ see above ] . |
| 16 | Helios was such a dazzling sight that few mortals ever glimpsed him in detail , and he was known to have struck sinners blind with the rays from his golden helmet and breast-plate . |
| 17 | And it is believed to have compiled a file on James Gilbey , the Princess 's friend alleged to be the male voice on the ‘ Dianagate ’ tapes . |
| 18 | OSF currently ships DEC VAX , MIPS , Sparc , Intel iAPX-86 and Motorola 680x0 installers as part of its ANDF offering , and it is believed to have shipped ANDF snapshots to some 25 organisations . |
| 19 | Animals have died as a consequence of coming into contact with the algae , and it is known to have caused serious illness , such as liver damage , in human beings , as well as producing skin reactions and allergies . |
| 20 | Another allegedly ‘ royal ’ tomb is the Great Tomb at Chrysolakkos , which stands at the northern edge of the Minoan town of Mallia , a little inland from the cliffed headland , and it is thought to have served as a family vault for Mallia 's royal family in the New Temple Period ( for instance , by Hood 1971 , p. 145 ) . |
| 21 | Examination of what is entailed and what is expected have produced ambivalent conclusions , less clear than the raw conviction that training is a good thing : but overall the evidence is favourable . |