Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Yesterday she went to several of her neighbours ' houses to ask if anyone had seen the incident or knew who was behind it .
2 prior to the Daily Telegraph article in January nineteen eighty eight , had or or had they been in the habit of spending large amounts of money on national publicity ?
3 Or had it been between them , or only in her own highly tuned emotions ?
4 But whether they 've been opened or closed it 's like a white elephant , I mean lovely place , look .
5 In America , with the Harveys , it somehow had not mattered ; nor had they been in the least concerned about how he had been raised , judging him for what he was now .
6 The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times .
7 He never damn well is , Donaldson thought , and asked what was to be done about Mrs Balanchine .
8 David Linacre had dozed off on the sofa one evening when his daughter Heidi came in and asked who was in the shower .
9 Suddenly , Rachel saw Tiger Balm Gardens and realised they were on Tai Hang Road .
10 I 'll try to spare you that , but I guess it 's about time I came clean and admitted it 's by no means a one-man show .
11 He played the hard man and pretended he was beyond fear , but that was nonsense .
12 ‘ Anyway , a certain man appeared , and pretended he was in love with Miss Havisham .
13 Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ?
14 I looked at my watch and found it was after eleven o'clock , which meant nothing really .
15 They 're gunned up and fired up and told it 's for real .
16 ‘ It 'd be a very odd individual who , when telephoned by his girlfriend and advised he was to be a father , failed to follow up on it , ’ Vitor growled , starting to walk again .
17 Brian , emerging from the bathroom , heard his wife talking and imagined she was with Camille , thus he was surprised to find her alone .
18 Allchin began by admitting that Microsoft has had a problem communicating its approach to object technology and claimed he was on the panel to put the record straight : there are objects in Windows NT because there is an object management system in the kernel — its simply not exposed to users .
19 I am writing to convey how shocked and saddened I am at the news .
20 But Taylor 's staff checked with Downing Street — and discovered he was in no position to offer anything .
21 Any farm worker could easily anticipate the consequences of ‘ going against ’ the local farmers , so for the most part they resigned themselves to this situation , bit their tongues rather than spoke out and developed what is by now their notorious taciturnity and ability to ‘ keep themselves to themselves ’ .
22 When she 'd lain awake in the night realizing how upset and worried she was by Timothy Gedge 's visit , she 'd thought the one thing she would n't be able to do was Meals on Wheels with Miss Poraway .
23 I saw flood-lit spaces , heard music and felt I was in another world , somewhere in Switzerland .
24 ‘ He was charming , ’ she lied , and felt it was worth it to see him look relieved .
25 Barrow , the former Liphook all-rounder , wants to continue playing Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire and felt it was in his interests to join a division one side .
26 Mike met his brother 's eyes and saw they were like steel .
27 I burst on to the pass from Jack Clarke , had a wee look and saw I was in the clear .
28 He looked at Catherine Crane 's feet and saw she was in a similar situation .
29 Then he remembered something and knew he was in duty bound to take that risk .
30 Undry was in her mind , shedding troubled surges of light through deep darkness ; what am I going to do ? she wondered , and knew it was beyond her to decide anything .
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