Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They just asked me 'Where 's your money ? ' |
| 2 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 3 | The case of ice that weighed him down was his best suit . |
| 4 | I seen her when was it ? |
| 5 | But wha when I was , you were n't around when we played them then were you ? |
| 6 | I told them there was nothing much more we could usefully do there and we 'd better leave before we were ejected . |
| 7 | She told me here 's your keys now she said because you 've lost a set . |
| 8 | ‘ I told you there was nothing much . |
| 9 | ‘ It must have been terrible for you when they told you there was nothing more they could do , ’ Juliet said quickly . |
| 10 | no , did he he , he dropped something down was it |
| 11 | And then as we was coming home from Pete 's , a chap stopped us and asked us where was so I told him where was he said I 'm looking for a little black and white house I said it 's right there look ! |
| 12 | Were n't on the phone for as long as he is when he rung you here was he ? |
| 13 | What hit him most was what hit him first . |
| 14 | What frightened him most was their absolute silence , the way they stared , unmoving , not issuing threats . |
| 15 | When we reached Auckland we had no plan of action at all , and as we knew no-one there was no-one to meet us . |
| 16 | I thought they really were you know . |
| 17 | I was only 23 and to hear players like Willie John , Gareth Edwards and Mervyn Davies saying that it was the best tour they 'd been on , then you knew it really was something special . |
| 18 | I thought what ever 's he on about ! |
| 19 | Just read it through Are there any question ? |
| 20 | The reason the Americans got it wrong was they were putting more faith into blood tests to see if the drug worked and it turns out that those blood tests can not tell you whether it works or not . |
| 21 | Constance thought Ludovico the most romantic man she had ever seen but what intrigued her most were his luxuriantly long eye-lashes . |
| 22 | ‘ Before we did anything there was something else . |
| 23 | A manufacturer of rich men 's toys , Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd had itself always been something of a rich man 's toy , owners like the mythical David Brown ( he of the DB4 and 5 ) underwriting the firm 's losses for sheer love of the marque . |
| 24 | There would have been nothing improper in his paying court to Heather , had she not been his patient . |
| 25 | Had he not been she might have telephoned him instead of Nick , when she had been desperate for company . |
| 26 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 27 | ‘ Had it better be me ? ’ |
| 28 | So apart from those three we said what else is there Ma |
| 29 | Cassirer was elected chairman of the Secession in 1912 and staged what probably was its most impressive exhibition in 1913 . |
| 30 | The only thing that held her together was her skin . |