Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] be under " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had always been under the impression that home breeding was unsuccessful , until I read an account of a breeding success by a Mr. Werner Nowak of Montreal . |
| 2 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 3 | ‘ And for all the way she bullied other people , she 's always been under that fellow 's thumb and so has Dympna . ’ |
| 4 | She 's obviously been under a tremendous strain over the last few months and she needs my help . ’ |
| 5 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |