Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun sg] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 2 | In 1850 neither St Petersburg nor Constantinople nor the western powers realized that war was on the horizon , but with hindsight it is possible to see that the battle-lines were drawn . |
| 3 | In May Justice Minister Kinkel announced that priority was to be given to the rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the SED regime , ahead of pursuing those accused of committing crimes or of assessing compensation claims of those who had been dispossessed of property by the regime . |
| 4 | And in their survey of 9–13 middle schools , the HMI argued that work was of a higher standard where there was a greater use of subject teachers , and where those subjects had been studied in a major way in higher education by the teachers concerned . |
| 5 | He argued that society is at bottom a system of organization for producing the goods on which people depend for their life . |
| 6 | Gorbachev , both at Geneva and in his subsequent address to the Supreme Soviet , argued that SDI was in effect a new type of armament , a ‘ space-strike weapon ’ which could be used against missiles , satellites or land-based targets . |
| 7 | Rousseau challenged the Christian doctrine of Original Sin ; he believed that man was by nature good , and that he had been corrupted by civilization ; savages were uncorrupted . |
| 8 | He acknowledged there was a problem transporting the heavy , bulky equipment from Loughborough to Orkney and recognised that time was of the essence if the whales are to be saved . |
| 9 | Archaeologists can reveal only very fragmentary glimpses of how people lived at any period , but what they imagined and thought is beyond recovery — the meagre scraps of records are useless or , at best , tantalizing in that they provide details torn from their context . |
| 10 | The House of Lords in Savage , above , confirmed that recklessness is of the Cunningham variety . |
| 11 | The Justice Secretary , César Arias ( appointed on Oct. 5 , 1989 , to replace Julio Oyhanarte ) , later described as a " fantasy " remarks by former President Raúl Alfonsín who in a television interview on March 7 , 1990 , warned that democracy was under threat and alleged that the government was studying the possibility of closing Congress using a 1909 decree . |
| 12 | The fact that he had been able to make the journey across the Atlantic meant that life was at last reverting to its customary shape . |
| 13 | Keeton , for example , suggests that Dicey felt that Parliament was in no danger of abusing its powers ‘ because it was a combination of diverse elements , linked together by an intricate system of ‘ checks and balances ’ … and also because Englishmen possessed , to a markedly greater degree than other peoples , a mysterious political instinct' . |
| 14 | ‘ Patty alone of all the children felt that mamma was in that coffin , and that a new sadder life had begun for papa and herself . |
| 15 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 16 | Sometimes she thought that food was like a gag . |
| 17 | Sabine Jourdain had been killed because of what she was prepared to say , Barbara Coleman had been kept out of the way because of what she knew and Rain was to be killed before she could publish the story . |
| 18 | Mum said that bit was for Sergeant Joe . ’ |
| 19 | Well , Edgar Wallace ( a writer not to be despised , as he sometimes is ) once said that vanity is at the back of most murders , and he had as a reporter covered many a murder trail . |
| 20 | Riding beside them , he explained that time was of the essence if their father 's instructions in respect of the protectorship were to be carried out . |
| 21 | in this case the medical evidence concluded that death was from crushing of the chest which prevented breathing with death resulting within 5 minutes . |