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Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ We do n't really want to see them being killed do we ? ’
2	We should prefer to see it being done in London so long as it is done by male labour , it is no matter where .
3	to look at er , a P R job about changing the way those resources are used so that they 're used in the way that 's been talked away , er , talked about tonight which is way that clearly many wo , many women want to see them being used .
4	The label on the key Mrs Tamm has given me is crumpled and blank .
5	This is believed to be Eddy Shah , the media entrepreneur who has claimed he was offered the Edwards shares for £16m .
6	I really want to know she is loved and cared for .
7	Julie is devastated to discover she is adopted and she sets out to find her natural parents .
8	The church planter needs to know he is called .
9	As soon as Arnie starts blasting you 're hooked .
10	Much more important , the interior ministry has let it be known that it is dropping its draconian controls on the use of photocopying machines .
11	Mr Major has let it be known privately that the chancellor will not be moved in the New Year reshuffle .
12	John Major too has let it be known he believes President Clinton 's foreign policy to be virtually indistinguishable from that of George Bush .
13	The IRA has said it is determined to stamp out drug dealing .
14	A nurse has said she was accosted by a man soon after the killing on the M-fifty , while the man jailed for the murder was hundreds of miles away in Scotland .
15	He has said he is determined to remain in office until his term expires in July 1992 , but Mr Andreotti 's wobbly five-party government may find it ever harder to coexist with such a tempestuous president .
16	Gironella has said he was drawn to this painting because Lezcano is holding some playing cards , so his disconcertingly direct gaze is inviting us in to test our wits and/or our luck against him .
17	An inquest has revealed she was killed by a faulty , twenty year old machine just a day after she 'd bought it from a relative .
18	Later the rational part develops add it is called the adult .
19	but er if they come back and say look I was gone to get change .
20	A 57-year-old woman who tried to help her was grabbed by the throat and had her head smashed on railings until she was nearly unconscious .
21	Intuitively , one might claim that the need for completeness which is satisfied when are angry is added to residents in ( 2 ) is of the same order as that experienced when waiting for , say , the splash of a stone thrown out over the sea , or for the arrival of food in one 's mouth when one has watched it being prepared .
22	He tried to come back too soon and made things worse but when he has played he 's looked bang in form .
23	In the past her songwriting and spiritual voice has led her be compared to Suzanne Vega , Joni Mitchell and Judie Tzuke , and Headland gained impressive reviews at the New Generation showcase at the Riverside earlier this year .
24	I can honestly say now I do not feel I have subsequently ever lost a race I would have won had I been allowed to use the whip . ’
25	To help this , she has insisted they be given more time to rehearse .
26	Byron Georgiadis , counsel for the dead woman 's father , has insisted she was murdered .
27	Jean 's cousin has discovered you 're engaged to a girl you work with .
28	A traffic warden who tried to stop them was knocked to the ground .
29	THE jury trying the case of a man accused of robbing a supermarket and shooting two people who tried to stop him was discharged last night after failing to reach a verdict .
30	Well my Lord , all we know is that erm when the report was served on the defendant it then came through court they were going to have to call Mr and then last week it was suggested er that er not only did they not agree but that they were going to try to prevent it being admitted in evidence .