Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the discovery of consignments of hospital waste , including syringes and blood bags , in a quarry rubbish tip in eastern France , French customs officers intercepted at least 20 German trucks , and found them also to be carrying hospital waste , sometimes mixed with ordinary domestic rubbish . |
| 2 | Davide is against him , he came and told me afterwards to be careful . |
| 3 | There seemed nothing else to be said , and Melissa went out of the room and upstairs to the secretary 's office , where , in response to her request to use the phone , Marie-Claire grudgingly pushed the instrument across her desk . |
| 4 | Soon the forest closed around her , so dense and dark in places that even as the new day broke she imagined herself still to be in a midnight realm . |
| 5 | In 1816 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy and made a knight of the Danish Order of Dannebrog , on the strength of which he allowed himself thenceforth to be called ‘ Sir Charles ’ . |
| 6 | And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . |
| 7 | The blood had been washed from his face and body , and he was still wearing the very good quality underwear that showed him indeed to be the son of an aristocratic family , who , despite Robespierre and Talleyrand still gave one of their sons to the Church . |
| 8 | ‘ But my father always taught me never to be afraid of pointing out the obvious . |
| 9 | He expected him henceforth to be both a Congregationalist and an Anglican . |
| 10 | Few of the friends who had written complimentary tributes to Smart at the time of his release from Dr Battie 's asylum expected him ever to be able to write again . |
| 11 | When Jenny learned next day about Brownies from the tall lady , whose name was Miss Clinton and who was a District Commissioner in the south of England , made her long to be one . |
| 12 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 13 | Originally we were planning to reward the first ten correct answers drawn out of the bag with a wonderful Sigma-Ray joystick , but unfortunately Markie ( feeble minded fool that he is ) mistook them for his laundry and took them home to be washed by his Mum . |
| 14 | The author did not understand these and thought them perhaps to be due to changes in reflectance . |
| 15 | When doctors gave up hope of any recovery , they sent him home to be with Altovise when he died . |
| 16 | Emma : Publicity 's a tiger which can turn and rend The man who thought it once to be his friend . |
| 17 | While the more organised approach culminated in the proposed ‘ primary and secondary host ’ plan , the realities made it hard to be quite so regimented . |
| 18 | And so those who devised all age worship in the in the sort of early eighties or late seventies , when it was the thing , devised it either to be just worship , or to be both education and worship . |
| 19 | I never did like drag shows and I did n't want to spend the evening in the pub but I did it just to be with gay people . |
| 20 | I , I would n't honestly say that it , he did it deliberately to be honest . |
| 21 | As we overtook them , they revealed themselves instead to be German tourists . |
| 22 | Last night you trusted me enough to be your first lover . |
| 23 | Pugh attributed the Philippos letters to Granville Penn , and he considered him also to be the likely author of the Zoophilus letters ( a possible alternative author might be Dr Priestley of Birmingham ) . |