Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that this button also felt particularly woolly meant that ‘ non-save paranoia ’ set in , and a couple of times I had to exit the program then return to see if my settings had actually been stored . |
| 2 | My relationship with my parents had never been close . |
| 3 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 4 | My leanings had always been towards the listings and music and entertainment side . |
| 5 | Now I began to wonder if my friends had not been right when they said I would never see him again . |
| 6 | My sausages had n't been all that satisfying , and I was feeling hungry again . |
| 7 | While on furlough in England my thoughts had naturally been on the new tasks ahead . |
| 8 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 9 | The young Margaret 's claims and the authority of her guardians had never been too highly regarded by the powerful Bruces , lords of Annandale and Carrick . |
| 10 | She now poked her face towards him , for her words had not been a statement but a direct question , one with a touch of bitterness , and when he did n't answer she went on , ‘ It was all right for you . |
| 11 | Individual reports to the Art teachers based on their appraisals had not been drafted , the problems of storage space , blackout , and the inadequate cleaning of the Pottery Hut remained unresolved , and the hoped-for move to adjacent rooms had not occurred . |
| 12 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 13 | ( Emma looking in a mirror , indoors , in the evening ; she has just been seduced by Rodolphe ) ‘ Her eyes had never been so large , so black , nor contained such depth . ’ |
| 14 | Choice seemed to have been taken away from her , but some of her anxieties had also been allayed . |
| 15 | The prosecution claimed that the four had been brought from a manse in Soweto to her house , and one of her bodyguards had already been sentenced to death for the murder of one of them , " Stompie " Moeketsi Seipei [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 16 | Some reported incidence of splitting but many more reported that their nails had never been stronger and some said they now grew more quickly ! |
| 17 | Yoshihisa Tabuchi , the president of Nomura ( the world 's largest stockbroker ) , and Takuya Iwasaki , the head of Nikko , resigned their posts on June 24 after their companies had also been accused of lending money to the head of a major gangster syndicate known as Inagawa-Kai , and of taking illegal actions to boost the values of shares which he held . |
| 18 | ‘ That fateful day he set off for work and their lives changed forever is etched on Wyn 's memory . |
| 19 | When the car suddenly collided with something solid she knew her prayers had n't been answered . |
| 20 | The seventh edition , in 1759 ‘ revised and altered according to the latest system of Botany ’ , included many new plants from overseas and , as Miller emphasised in the Preface , their descriptions had not been copied from books , but taken from nature : ‘ the far greater number are from growing plants which the author has under his care , and the others are from dried samples which are well preserved ; of which he has , perhaps , as large a collection as can be found in the possession of any private person . ’ |
| 21 | Greatly to her relief , the first visit of the little girls to the hospital to see their parents had n't been nearly as traumatic as Laura had feared . |
| 22 | Fay Weldon and her allies had not been invited either , because , it was felt , they held racist attitudes , consciously or not . |
| 23 | He seemed to be out of scale with the rest of the room , as if his size and all of its angles had somehow been exaggerated . |
| 24 | But she did believe that her revelations had not been bestowed upon her for herself but for everybody . |
| 25 | But the alarm was only raised 30 hours later when a hotelier phoned to ask why their reservations had not been taken up . |
| 26 | But their expectations had n't been raised . |
| 27 | Their contents had mostly been removed to Germany . |
| 28 | ‘ They felt their needs had never been dealt with and a group would take away attention from their problem , ’ she says . |
| 29 | He inspected the plastic bag , satisfied that its contents had not been touched . |
| 30 | Heather Lloyd , defending , said they had committed the crimes more out of ignorance than malice and that their customers had not been unhappy . |