Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked across the open grave at Sarah , her stepdaughter , and it saddened her even more that the gulf between them had never been bridged . |
| 2 | She sounded really cheesed off about I said how 's your revision going , cos I knew she was doing revision , she went cccckkk I try a maths paper and I ca n't do that , and I a chemistry paper and I ca n't do that and I really . |
| 3 | Our chances of ending the war quickly would certainly be greatly increased if the battle were won ; but if we failed to win it , even after what had already been achieved , our victory would merely be postponed and not rendered impossible , especially if we resolved in good time not to persist with our useless efforts at Verdun , but to take the initiative of attack elsewhere . |
| 4 | Contemporaries remember him coming scowling to school after what had clearly been rows with his patron . |
| 5 | It would mean telling her everything — and telling the full truth about himself had never been easy . |
| 6 | Iraqi opposition groups , some of whom had reportedly been consulted on the scheme during talks with senior US officials in late July and early August , were broadly supportive of Western plans . |
| 7 | Political persuasion was required to keep up the political momentum , and given the changing age profile of the electorate — many of whom had not been adults a decade ago — Sir Geoffrey warned : ‘ We 've got to choose the style to match the mood of Britain . ’ |
| 8 | The teaching team , many of whom had not been involved in community interpreting before , rose to the challenge and fought , argued and demanded and came back for more . |
| 9 | As competitors and spectators sat in the sunshine on the Royal Canoe Club 's lawn at the finish , slowly unwinding and chatting to friends , some of whom had not been seen for quite some time , the atmosphere was a mixture of international competition and relaxed gentility . |
| 10 | Some reports suggested that the invasion was supported by large numbers of the estimated 400,000 Palestinian workers in Kuwait , all of whom had previously been denied Kuwaiti citizenship despite constituting the backbone of the country 's middle-management structure . |
| 11 | Forty-six Law Lords had been to Oxford or Cambridge , seven to Scottish universities , four to Trinity College Dublin , two to London University ( one of whom had also been to Cambridge ) and one to Queen 's Belfast . |
| 12 | They joined the rest of their colleagues — most of whom had already been suspended — in the rest room of Europe 's largest ambulance station , where they were watching a video of A Bridge Too Far . |
| 13 | An agricultural relief committee was established in 1983 by a handful of young agricultural engineers , some of whom had already been working with ‘ the voluntary work committees ’ , a network of skilled and unskilled workers which had been operating since the mid-1970s . |
| 14 | The 1984 village case study revealed that the Bangladeshi mothers ( some of whom had already been taught about the lobon-gur solution ) recognised four different types of diarrhoea and generally thought only one of these types to be an indication for the use of the lobon-gur mixture . |
| 15 | Others had a more persistent disorder , some of whom had already been treated unsuccessfully . |
| 16 | At the Jan. 8 round table meeting Peter Koch , who was responsible for disbanding the National Security Office ( and was subsequently dismissed on Jan. 12 ) , revealed that there had been over 85,000 Stasi employees , 25,000 of whom had already been dismissed ; all weapons would be impounded by the end of January . |
| 17 | And yet both my sons , neither of whom had ever been hurt by a dog , would show apprehension if a dog approached . |
| 18 | Another source of future friction lies in the failure of the congress to elevate Mr Pozsgay above other presidium members , some of whom had never been elected to a top party position . |
| 19 | Several of them had already been contained in a draft proposal in 1957 on the principles to determine Great Power conduct on questions of peace and security in the Near and Middle East . |
| 20 | The three , Kevin Woods , Barry Bawden and Michael Smith , were all members of the ( pre-independence ) Rhodesian Army , and two of them had already been sentenced to death for the car-bomb killing in January 1988 of a Zimbabwean driver at an ANC house in the south-western town of Bulawayo ( in which Barry Bawden 's brother Kit Bawden was also implicated — see p. 36415 ) . |
| 21 | She had taken off her coat , somehow contrived to make herself seem a little dishevelled , as though the two of them had just been snogging on the sofa or something . |
| 22 | And three of them had just been whipped from under me . |
| 23 | Then Pike , or Pike 's body anyway , fiopped all over Quigley as if the two of them had just been exchanging bodily fiuids . |
| 24 | If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them . |
| 25 | Most of them had never been before and was scared , she got just a little bit of water in her mouth and she thought she was drowning but instead of saying drowning she said to me , ‘ I drownded ’ . |
| 26 | Plenty of them had only been raped over one period of 24 hours but never less than by six or seven men . |
| 27 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
| 28 | He spared a glance at the ragged specimens of humanity crouched against the wall and wondered how many of them had once been prosperous farmers or innkeepers or tradesmen . |
| 29 | She wished neither of them had ever been born . |
| 30 | All six bungs were sealed and there was no evidence that any of them had ever been damaged . |