Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 32 | The only time anyone other than Alan helped me was when Andy Norman , via John Bicourt , found me someone who helped me with my back problems . |
| 33 | No I 'm only phoning you because you phoned I 'm only phoning because you ph yeah yeah no no we 've been here all the time and the phone did n't ring once well |
| 34 | So I phoned her last Nancy phoned me last Friday afternoon before she went on holiday to tell me , and I phoned I was n't sure whether just to sort of play it low key or then I thought , Well I know I really should just give here a wee ring . |
| 35 | I FELT I had to write and say how moved I was when I visited the exhibition of wood-cuts by Hong Song-Dam . |
| 36 | Surprisingly , I found I was not acting . |
| 37 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 38 | Coming in from a film background myself , and being film-minded , I found I was soon in demand to help out with film sequences — ultimately being asked to direct these sequences for Directors who did n't have much experience with the medium . ’ |
| 39 | And when morning came I found I was n't half a mile from where I 'd started . |
| 40 | When we moved some six years later to a small town again , in Berkshire , I found I was more competent in the three Rs than any other school child of my own age . |
| 41 | As the train approached Edinburgh 's Caledonian Station I found I was as nervous as on my first journey to Bletchley . |
| 42 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 43 | Tsars often ascended the throne in difficult circumstances , but the situation in which Alexander found himself was undoubtedly worse than that which confronted his father in 1825 or his uncle in 1801 . |
| 44 | In 1951 in four widely read newspapers — two national dailies ( Daily Mirror and The Times ) , the national Sunday ( Sunday People ) and one evening paper ( the London Evening Standard ) — there were only two cases reported which were not also covered by the News of the World . |
| 45 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 46 | No trick , as he gleefully recounted himself was too low or devious to ensure the required result , though he might boast of being the " King of the Bristol Channel " . |
| 47 | This situation arose when a Prime Minister died in office or resigned for personal reasons , that is to say , when a vacancy occurred which was not accompanied by any change in the position of the parties . |
| 48 | Unfortunately , this so incensed some supporters that an ugly incident occurred which was sensationally reported in the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus under the banner headline ‘ Ref Struck by String ’ . |
| 49 | Functional index and glossary of words used which are not in the Cambridge English lexicon ( Levels 1–3 ) . |
| 50 | But she found she was n't proof against his sudden closeness , nor his smiling charm as his eyes tried yet again to seek out the curves of her body hidden so discreetly from his probing by her chosen armour . |
| 51 | ’ We stopped her and took her into the back room where we found she was n't fat at all . |
| 52 | ‘ When the physician examined her , he found she was not a virgin ! |
| 53 | One evening I visited her but found she was out , so I waited on her balcony , smoking a cigar . |
| 54 | His working methods were very different from those of Graham Rowell and she found she was constantly on her toes to try and keep one step ahead of him in anticipating what he would want next . |
| 55 | Rosalba was holding a wet cloth on her face , and so Caterina found she was home again ; her mother was taking off her shoes and rubbing her feet . |
| 56 | She found she was halfway up already , unconsciously obeying the voice . |
| 57 | Do n't answer , she adjured herself ; it is n't mandatory ; he 's only doing it to annoy you — then found she was totally incapable of being as rude as she wanted to be . |
| 58 | He was , to her amazement , remarkably patient with her efforts , and she found she was actually enjoying the lesson , relishing the challenge of making her body work with the skis instead of against them . |
| 59 | She drank slowly , found she was indeed hungry and munched a little on a biscuit . |
| 60 | In a strange way Shannon found she was almost impressed by the strength of his ego — an ego that was apparently impervious to self-doubt or criticism . |