Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have tried pressing several beautiful tulips but once they are pressed flat they become very large indeed ! |
| 32 | It has not been explained how they were able to do so without taking any instructions from Mrs. Steed , but it has not been suggested that Mrs. Steed authorised them to do so . |
| 33 | It had n't been registered so they 'd got , the police have got no way of tracing it . |
| 34 | My aim has been to continue where he left off , ’ he added . |
| 35 | It 's been hanging over my head like the sword of Damocles . |
| 36 | On unbroken vole teeth , the digestion produced by mammalian predators is similar to that produced by categories 3 to 5 predators described above , but when the teeth are broken initially there is an appearance of greater distortion ( Fig. 3.21 B ) . |
| 37 | On the same day it was reported that efforts to impose the state of emergency regulations were being hampered by mass civil disobedience , with demonstrations and road blocks slowing the movement of the newly arrived military units from airfields at Yevlakh and Gendzhe ( Azerbaijan 's second largest city , formerly Kirovabad ; it had been given back its pre-Soviet name on Dec. 30 ) . |
| 38 | We 've been given back our summer . ’ |
| 39 | A few days later the sergeant called to say that the fingerprints on the envelope were not those of the gardener who had been dismissed and that the poor , wronged man had been given back his job . |
| 40 | * Prior to the report 's publication , US environmental groups had been stepping up their attack on GATT [ see ED 55 ] . |
| 41 | Even as the thought had come Paige had been gathering up her purse and the car keys . |
| 42 | The exaltation of Jesus to the Father 's right hand is not only God 's vindication of his spreading from Jerusalem person and his achievement ; it is the precondition of the coming of his Spirit upon the witnesses who are to carry on his mission ( Acts 2:32f ) . |
| 43 | Lunch time supervisors are important members of the staff team and they need careful selection and training if they are to carry out their jobs properly . |
| 44 | An inevitable by-product of all that the executive branch as a whole does is a vast amount of information , which assemblies need if they are to carry out their roles of law ratification and oversight of the bureaucracy . |
| 45 | Actually they 're all er they are , nearly all of them have been broken so they 've obviously caught up with the list from the . |
| 46 | Well there you are make up your own minds . |
| 47 | we have people who know a lot about the subject , and others who are bringing in their own items for us to assess |
| 48 | Now disarmament and reprocessing are bringing about what fast reactors never did : surplus plutonium . |
| 49 | The most successful weepers are those who have integrated a loving carer into their experience , so that even when they are weeping alone they do not feel abandoned or frightened . |
| 50 | And fourth , having been caught out it would have been wiser to brazen it out immediately , as do the Israelis , rather than go through the tedium of Tricot 's inquiry . |
| 51 | This had flowered and fruited and , although too late to be included in the Dictionary it might be brought into a later supplement because several new plants had been omitted once their initial letter had been passed in the main work . |
| 52 | ‘ And Miss Miggs would be glad for it to go because boys have been climbing over her garden wall trying to get it , ’ finished Christine . |
| 53 | Mike lowered the can of Coke which he 'd been emptying down his parched throat . |
| 54 | yeah he said oh Margaret wages have been took out me car he said I ge , I 'll get it at some point for you Margaret he said when I go at the bank but he said , yours was taken out Jack 's car |
| 55 | What will her reaction be when she knows that her bright boy , while patting and stroking her and kissing her brow and her blue lips , must have been laughing up his sleeve at her , and thinking what a clever boy he is to be able to live in her fine house and have a big say in her business , while at the same time running a mistress on the side . ’ |
| 56 | but I said that you know eighteen might be a push but I would n't be surprised if we got twelve or fourteen at that time of course we had n't actually had any education events cos the one that we scheduled has been cancelled so I was perhaps a bit naive about how many people actually turn out to these things |
| 57 | Yeah you do , you tend to go out and commit more crime because of You 've been let out you 've been let off really |
| 58 | A couple whose baby was a victim of cot death are opening up their stately home to raise money for research . |
| 59 | ‘ We are opening up our store , and would be very happy to talk to them . ’ |
| 60 | I am returning herewith your invoice for a subscription to the above periodical . |