Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at training Paul Gascoigne upstaged that prank after being warned there could be some standing around in chilly weather . |
| 2 | He made the reference after being asked what the Conservatives would do about law and order during a question and answer session at Hummersknott School , Darlington . |
| 3 | He made the reference after being asked what the Conservatives would do about law and order during a question and answer session at Hummersknott School , Darlington . |
| 4 | If the rat is tested just after being taught it does well . |
| 5 | SACKED Coleraine surgeon dramatically resigned today shortly after being given his job back by the Northern Health Board . |
| 6 | The 18 later left the building after being assured they would be considered for emigration . |
| 7 | I suppose it was possible that after being handled they would forsake their young anyway . |
| 8 | And after being baptized he continued on with Philip , as he observed signs and great miracles taking place , and he was constantly amazed ! |
| 9 | NURSES at scandal-hit Ashworth top-security hospital last night lifted their overtime ban after being told they were risking their future . |
| 10 | Council workers have staged a protest after being told they must go back to using a car park where one of their colleagues was murdered . |
| 11 | A hospital 's maternity unit could be forced to close after being told its services are too expensive . |
| 12 | A FURIOUS housewife took three workmen hostage after being told her heating must be turned off until the New Year . |
| 13 | ACTOR Woody Allen was heartbroken last night after being told he could not see his children for Christmas . |
| 14 | Quinn opted to stay behind and train after being told he would n't be in the side or on the bench at St Andrews . |
| 15 | And finally , a hotel owner is popping champagne corks tonight after being told he can carry on flying the flag . |
| 16 | The restaurateur handed over £500 after being told he needed a new gas pipe immediately . |
| 17 | Dawn astonished doctors by becoming pregnant as she waited for a hysterectomy after being told she would never have a child . |
| 18 | Helen , of Moulton Grove , Fairfield , Stockton , burst into tears and had to be supported by relatives after being told she was going to a young offenders institution . |
| 19 | Miss Bayliss , who has a six-year-old daughter , initially refused to be searched but agreed after being told she would not be able to see her brother Michael , a heroin addict . |
| 20 | A KURDISH refugee who set fire to himself after being told his application for political asylum in Britain had failed has died , intensifying criticism of the Home Office 's handling of the Kurds ' plight , writes Mike Prestage . |
| 21 | He was dismissed from his post as director of post-ordination training by the Bishop of Chichester , Dr Eric Kemp , after being told his views were incompatible with his job . |
| 22 | After being told it was within 0.1 accurate , I found another friend with a different and much more expensive pH meter . |
| 23 | AN academic has been banned from sleeping or eating in her office at Stirling University after being told it was so cluttered with papers and food that it constituted a health and fire hazard . |
| 24 | ‘ I had geared my mind after being told I 'd had a son . |
| 25 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 26 | I 'd kind of been hoping they 'd take the cuffs off me altogether by now but I suppose they 're thinking that the body in the shaft does n't prove anything by itself , and that Andy could still be dead , or he could be alive and he — or somebody else — could have kidnapped Halziel and Lingary to provide cover for me . |
| 27 | if I had n't of been blinded he was out the door |
| 28 | Could of been using me French |
| 29 | he would n't of been touching it with this . |
| 30 | When Stephanie 's mother died we found in the bungalow a watch , it must of been given I would of thought to her father probably for his twenty first and I took it to a jewellers in Elton , well that 's all he does is watches actually apart from jewellery . |