Example sentences of "[n mass] [pers pn] [vb past] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 2 | Ants of knowledge were pick-pick-picking at her brain , fighting their way in , and she had no defences against them , but the data they brought were swirled and fragmented pixels that frightened her with their strangeness . |
| 3 | Without a word , he took the staff I 'd been using , drove it into the ground with his sledge hammer , secured it with guy ropes and tied a washing line for me from it to the Land Rover . |
| 4 | People you 'd been helping might offer you something . |
| 5 | Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing |
| 6 | It felt like abandoning all the people we had been working with , whom we had been encouraging to organize and demand their rights . |
| 7 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister told MPs he had been misled by Mr Clark over the sanctions-busting sales of arms-building equipment to dictator Saddam Hussein . |
| 9 | Only now did they realise how enormous a man he was , for when fighting with his staff he had been crouched with head forward and shoulders bent . |
| 10 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 11 | He was awarded the £40 he had been ordered to pay in excess fares plus interest plus costs . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it was his firm conviction that the Masai needed ‘ all the administrative control we can give them ’ , and the many waterworks he constructed were designed in part to curtail their wanderings . |
| 13 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 14 | An extra charge of one shilling ( 5p ) was made for permission to view the house , and the £5,500 it made was added to the Queen 's charitable fund . |
| 15 | In 1759 , Arthur Guinness travelled from County Kildare in Ireland to Dublin , with £100 he had been left in his godfather 's will . |
| 16 | After a further 150 ft. it had been found that the Bonsor Vein bifurcated . |