Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT HAPPENS IF I AM ILL , HAVE AN ACCIDENT OR I AM MADE REDUNDANT ? |
| 2 | Q What happens if I am ill , have an accident or I am made redundant ? |
| 3 | He or she was given considerable powers , and had to be consulted by LEAs over their general development plans and any specific proposals to establish , close or alter schools ( this changed under the 1980 Act ) . |
| 4 | Students who fail to return the form or who are deemed ineligible by the Board will be responsible for the payment of their fees . |
| 5 | Amber , however , seemed to have little consideration for Lucien or what was considered sacred . |
| 6 | Eventually everyone leaves the room to shower and drink coffee and do all things that people usually do after intercourse — communally in this case — and Samantha and I are left alone . |
| 7 | but now they 're all set up and I 'm left alone and the children , three of them , have n't got time to look after me to give me what I , what I need and especially one in the truth , that one is less getting in touch with me than the ones that told me the truth , boys ring me , twice , three times a week , Julia rings every , every night , but Ted rings twice or three times a week , three times I could go , the one |
| 8 | ‘ Would you chaps mind terribly if Barry and I were left alone ? ’ the other Rex asked . |
| 9 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 10 | But I got caught , along with my father , and I was knocked unconscious . |
| 11 | And I was knocked clean out of my right wits at first . |
| 12 | ‘ I had three kids , Australia seemed to offer them better prospects than England and I was proved right , ’ he says . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew he would get the humour and the pathos just right and I was proved correct . |
| 14 | Well I 'm a single parent and I was left pregnant by my my boyfriend , I did n't have a choice in the matter of having I was quite happy , I was in love , I was quite happy , but I left , on my own , with a child so where does that leave me ? |
| 15 | It was n't a nice ten minutes , all the consoling thoughts I 'd scraped together during the night ran away and I was left alone . |
| 16 | But he did , and off she went and I was left alone . |
| 17 | A taxi was called and Hugo and the children left for Liverpool Street and I was left alone with my own thoughts , in a state of mind I could only describe as lustless . |
| 18 | When my parents went and I was left alone I cried for most of the night . |
| 19 | It was a couple of weeks before and I was left high and dry without a partner . |
| 20 | But he never came near me again , and I was left high and dry with all that power lying idle inside me . |
| 21 | I was at the local convent school from twelve to eighteen years old and I was considered clever but ‘ strange ’ . |
| 22 | Most of what passes for women 's education and which is considered different in kind and emphasis from that which is usually provided in mainstream education for women , is , in my view , a transparent variation on a familiar theme . |
| 23 | The University appears , then , to have great admiration for the fact that , among other things , Caspar Weinberger : a ) supported the Contra rebels in a war which led to the deaths of some 30,000 Nicaraguans and which was declared illegal by the International Court of Justice . |
| 24 | It was a privilege which the state guarded jealously and which was made available to business enterprises whose purposes aimed to benefit the public in general as well as enrich the corporators . |
| 25 | And you are left alone , unless you ask for help . |
| 26 | Two mixes of ‘ House Of Usher ’ finish off the EP , and you 're left fearful of turning out the lights at night . |
| 27 | Do that and you 're guaranteed 20-plus goals . |
| 28 | Not that Kimon was the only Athenian statesman who sought to recall Marathon specifically : the 192 horsemen of the Parthenon frieze , begun after Kimon 's death and completed as late as the 430s , may depict the Marathon dead , who numbered just 192 , and who were given heroic honours . |
| 29 | Recently , things have got worse and she 's become agoraphobic . |
| 30 | There was an expression of terrible natural justice , and she was rendered breathless by a profound understanding of just why lions were seen as kings . |