Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had eyes only for the journey downwards , now , and battle-fervour , love and pride had long since been sucked from them , leaving them soulless husks : in bronze , or leather , fur-cloaked or bright trousered . |
| 2 | Several so-called religious visions of the Middle Ages have since been attributed to it . ’ |
| 3 | Hello there , oh not too bad y'know erm let's see , just done child sex abuse , or rather been talking about it |
| 4 | This indeed was a factor in hastening the decay of villeinage , because a man who was free would not wish to incur servile obligations if he took possession of land which had hitherto been burdened with them . |
| 5 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 6 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 7 | It seemed that Belov had only been waiting for her to ask . |
| 8 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Newman however relied on certain additional points which had apparently been raised by him before the Divisional Court , but which the court did not in the circumstances find it necessary to consider in its judgment . |
| 9 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 10 | And it 's all been thrown at them so suddenly , has n't it ? |
| 11 | Even though I 'd eventually been allowed my inhaler and eye ointment in Holloway , it had all been taken off me again . |
| 12 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 13 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 14 | She 'd obviously been counting on me having one , because the chillim was poised at her lips , ready for her to pull in deeply when the surface leaves caught fire . |
| 15 | He had obviously been arguing with it — when Masklin walked up he glared at him and said , ‘ It wo n't do what I tell it ! ’ |
| 16 | With another sigh , and feeling extremely awkward because she 'd obviously been foisted on them when they had n't wanted her to be foisted , she decided not to unpack , just take out the things she would need for the night . |
| 17 | He had merely been playing with her . |
| 18 | But when you do , you 'd better be prepared for him to come back and hit you on your arms , your chest , that big belly of yours and finally the chin . |
| 19 | In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . |
| 20 | It is rather expensive — there are so many competing demands for the raw material — so you will naturally be sparing with it . |
| 21 | To admit to hunger would have been to admit to my disease , and so be robbed of it . |
| 22 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 23 | He thought that precisely because it was impossible for the human mind to construct an idea of God from its inherent mental resources , such an idea could only be given to it by revelation — in other words directly implanted by God Himself . |
| 24 | Can only be revivified by hers . |
| 25 | When two or more persons took as tenants in common , the share of each was treated as a separate item of property which could not only be transferred by him in his lifetime , but which would pass on his death to his representatives . |
| 26 | For reasons which can only be guessed at he decided to establish himself near Keswick in Cumberland and returned in the following year with Hans Loner , a relative by marriage , and twelve German workers , to set up works and to prospect more fully . |
| 27 | Book loans to registered students can only be made to them in person , or on written application , if they quote their registration number . |
| 28 | The thing was though , that that claim could only be made by her . |
| 29 | Field barns were built to serve land lying some distance from the farmstead , or which could only be reached from it by way of steep hills . |
| 30 | I 've told the teeniest weeniest white lie and said that I will only be staying with you for a week or so . " |