Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pretty wonderful to be sitting there watching it all and knowing that I was the only person in the whole school who realised exactly what was going on inside the Trunchbull 's pants . |
| 2 | There , alongside Elsie Oakensen , an amiably ordinary grandmother who told how she was snatched by aliens in Northamptonshire in 1978 , a group of bone fide fruitcakes from the Aetherius Society ( who believe that Jesus and Buddha came to Earth in flying saucers from Venus ) , turned up and did their party turn . |
| 3 | And for those who dug deeper there was no blame and no clear enemy — all was reducible to unconscious hurt . |
| 4 | I 'd never met an off-worlder who knew where they were , or cared . |
| 5 | The fewer who knew where I was , the better . |
| 6 | ‘ That would have meant , ’ said the inspector alertly , ‘ that anyone who knew where you were all sitting would have been able work out who would get which plate in the pile . ’ |
| 7 | As the hunt for his wife went on Mr Probyn , 33 , appealed to Tania — or anyone who knew where she was — to contact police or family . |
| 8 | At this Maria Candida , who had been listening on the stairs , let out a wail of joy at the thought that she would be seeing Portugal again ; Leonora went to embrace her daughter and whisper her blessings , while Gerald , who knew when he was beaten and was never any good in emotional situations , announced that he had important business in the castle yard , and would return as soon as he had attended to it . |
| 9 | Anna was twenty now , living with her mother and some randy young rooster who knew when he was well off . |
| 10 | You know when his boss came in then things went downhill but yeah certainly Tom helped me and just the fact that there was someone there who knew exactly what was going on , be it not a lot but , he was trying to help us , and give us advice and what have you . |
| 11 | His idea was that this would make no difference to those who knew how they were going to vote anyway , but could sway the others ; the floating vote , I suppose . |
| 12 | We all know the story of the two beautiful swans who brought forth what was regarded as an ugly duckling but which later surprised everyone by turning into a swan itself . |
| 13 | But at all events , it must be concluded that , assuming an entry age of 14 in most cases , the average length of time in the trade for those who married was ten or eleven years , while for those who did not it was very much longer . |
| 14 | Somehow the sight of this touched Ianthe , who had never herself been in the position of having to wait till pay-day . |
| 15 | Forty years later William Hutton , who had once himself been a framework knitter , wrote that manufactures tended to decay when " plenty preponderates " , for a man who could support his family on three days ' labour would not work six . |
| 16 | But he must remain in the custody of the bailiff , who said however there was no need for it . |
| 17 | People in Baldersdale often used to come for him to help calve their cows and , on one occasion , he worked alongside our local vet at that time , Mr Joe Cosgrove , who said afterwards he was pretty good . |
| 18 | For those who stayed behind there were still impressive spectacles . |
| 19 | ‘ Must be the only hill between here and Russia , ’ he observed to Catherine who pointed out it was n't much of a hill , more a fifty-foot ridge , it just looked high in this dead flat plain . |