Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are shoppers now expected to hover over the vegetable counter at the supermarket , stricken with anxiety trying to remember which greens cause cancer and which do not ? |
| 2 | Are Sugar ever pestered to play the old , old songs ? |
| 3 | There could even be occasions then extended coverage in a large number of regional and provincial newspapers is much more useful than a short piece in The Times . |
| 4 | Me being Miss Know-it-all did go out , and lo and behold I got arrested . |
| 5 | to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much |
| 6 | Deems 's voice barely reached Cley 's ears . |
| 7 | Aye , he , I mean he 's been doing quite well , cos that 's George usually smoked you know ? |
| 8 | There 's Tufnell again passed on by John Hampshire , bowling in sweeps that , he gets it away very fine indeed , he 's running right underneath us here , he gets to the ball now , you can almost hear his footsteps , past the and a good return , and has two . |
| 9 | Because they are spiritually deaf the brother Rutherford I think it was years ago described then as dumb dog , what does that |
| 10 | The St Petersburg soviet , whose leading figure was Trotsky now had a great conflict with Witte . |
| 11 | She felt excluded from their world even though she could not have been better informed ; the trouble was Ferdinando still belonged to that world . |
| 12 | Was Burgess more sinned against than sinning ? |
| 13 | It was candles Gaily smelled now , the thick , snuffed-out smell of candle-smoke . |
| 14 | We 've been thrilled with this work experience cos was Dave originally had these five days off taping and he said no , he said , you know you 're so tired , have a little rest we 'll go up I 'll go up on the train only to get to the Selhurst Park he 's got four or five train journeys |