Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ive checked with my other half and she assured me that the info she passed on was from Sky and not made up ! |
| 2 | The Kirk say some of the residents who moved out were in need of hospital care and a few went to homes in other parts of the country to be nearer relatives . |
| 3 | Action : All version numbers must be in the format described under HEADER-FORMAT-IS in Appendix B. |
| 4 | She 'd rarely been at school , went into domestic service , could n't read , but can write her name , then got married . |
| 5 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 6 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 7 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 9 | first time I ever one , was old Freddie and I 'd , I 'd only been to depot . |
| 10 | I 'd only been in Monty 's poky little office for ten minutes and already he had given me two priceless lessons in my future profession — to make sure I dressed properly , and never be afraid to ask the question " Why ? " |
| 11 | She 'd only been in Dane 's company for a matter of days , but he 'd left a mark on her , a mark it could prove impossible to erase . |
| 12 | ‘ The letter your note came in was from Pierre Labone , ’ he said , naming one of France 's top designers . |
| 13 | For this one date they were supported by the Billy Harper Trio with Peter Stuart and Adrian Tilbrook on bass and drums and they fitted in as if they 'd all been on tour together . |
| 14 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 15 | ( She told me later she 'd just been in hospital . |
| 16 | UNTIL Saturday we 'd not been to Meadowbank Stadium since July 1986 , the distinctly unlucky 13th Commonwealth Games . |
| 17 | And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect |
| 18 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 19 | He was sentenced to twelve months in jail but was released when the court heard he 'd already been in custody for ten months . |
| 20 | The mist , blotting out Wickrithe , seemed to banish her tension and sense of danger ; she and Adam were alone and safe , as they 'd always been on Starr Hills . |
| 21 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 22 | But er , yes er , I would have been er , I think if I 'd still been in Jim 's place , er quite rightly so , getting all that we can for the town . |
| 23 | It was the first time she 'd ever been on board ship . |
| 24 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 25 | The two of them , closer in death than they 'd ever been in life . |
| 26 | On that holiday they er they 'd also been to Cairo as well as , and I mean some of the erm trips erm are they go to Luxor and you board a erm er the ship from Luxor to Aswan and you do n't get to Cairo and I think if you 're going to Egypt you really want to go to Cairo |
| 27 | Poor darling , he 'd probably been to hell and back as well last night . |
| 28 | She was even beginning to wonder if she 'd really been in love with Hugh — properly in love . |
| 29 | Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything . |
| 30 | The bulk of firewood burned today is in twigs and branches . |