Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I know everyone has been drinking Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon for ages , but Bulgaria has much more to offer , with original grape varieties such as Melnik , Gamza and Mavrud which are not grown elsewhere . |
| 2 | Everyone has been asking this questions since it was announced that Holiday '91 Presenter Anne Gregg will be leaving the programme later this month at her BBC bosses ' request . |
| 3 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 4 | The objective of the other forms of nationalization was clearly similar and the effect of each of them has been to reduce foreign ownership in the corporate sector to a relatively modest level . |
| 5 | Nothing has been decided either way . ’ |
| 6 | All we can do I think is resist this strongly and the whole idea for reorganization particularly this time . |
| 7 | Friends and colleagues , most of you I expect are experiencing heavy increases in house and car insurance . |
| 8 | The last thing I want is to impale this dancing , living creature upon the stake of meaning . |
| 9 | I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that . |
| 10 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 11 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 12 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 13 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 14 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |
| 15 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 16 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 17 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 18 | I 'd been to work all day and I 'd been and been running sheets off all night . |
| 19 | I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine . |
| 20 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 21 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |
| 23 | And I 'd been to top standard as it was then it was standard seven , and as the er you know now they let when the when they 've somebody in so long they let them walk about and come home and all so That time of day you got to you 'd got to pass examins and exams and such like as that . |
| 24 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 26 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 27 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 30 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |