Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I needed to go to the toilet , and with every step I took there seemed to be more convulsions from my guts . |
| 32 | There seemed to be more quarrels indoors when the children were crowded together . |
| 33 | ‘ There seemed to be more people than ever there . |
| 34 | There seemed to be enough darkness without seeking more — Ana 's blindness , Felipe 's secret ways and her own . |
| 35 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 36 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 37 | I mean , we were young ; there happened to be more girls in the neighbourhood than boys , and we experimented — there was nothing vicious about it . |
| 38 | For them no one else in the programme existed — except one And since that happened to be another woman , she had to be remarkable and she certainly was . |
| 39 | They walked on , and after what they reckoned to be another mile they paused again and looked back at Dynmouth . |
| 40 | LENNIE LAWRENCE last night snapped up the youngster tipped to be another David Platt . |
| 41 | There is , however , bound to be some unease on both sides , and this will disappear only as members of both institutes work together in running courses , planning local centre events , and other ventures . |
| 42 | Even where local products could be bought , so superior were English goods presumed to be that place of origin marks on goods of colonial manufacture were often falsified . |
| 43 | Existing users can have their products upgraded for a cost expected to be some £500 per site ; new users can buy products from the wide-ranging series at between £900 and £50,000 . |
| 44 | " Is this meant to be some kind of a threat ? " |
| 45 | In a very small voice , she said , ‘ Was that meant to be some kind of proposal ? |
| 46 | It depicted what he took to be some sort of religious ritual . |
| 47 | The revelation was that the crowd proved to be those things too . |
| 48 | This was followed by the Harpers & Queen Grand Prix which proved to be another success for Markus Tecklenborg this time riding Franklin . |
| 49 | It is perhaps significant that there appeared to be more choice of newspaper than of television news . |
| 50 | There also appeared to be less dissension on state aid and subsidies , a subject given added poignancy by the recent revelations about the UK Government 's ‘ sweeteners ’ to British Aerospace at the time of the takeover of Rover . |
| 51 | In fact Devon appeared to be some way behind other areas of the country in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 52 | For example , in a normal conversation between a child and an adult , if the child said ‘ er … um ’ or looked puzzled in response to a question , the adult would attempt to resolve what appeared to be some problem of understanding by rephrasing the question or asking what the problem was . |
| 53 | There appeared to be some problem with our papers regarding the tonnage we were hauling until a 20DM note was produced and we insisted that we did not require a receipt . |
| 54 | It appeared to be some disturbance of the atmosphere , a puckering slash of the ethereal epidermis itself . |
| 55 | There was extensive second-degree smutting and several nasty blots of what appeared to be some kind of industrial lubricant . |
| 56 | The Monteith experiment ( summarized very baldly ) concluded that its experience had been broadly encouraging , that there appeared to be some evidence of correlation of a student 's personal library effectiveness and other measures of educational development , and that ( of course ) more research was necessary . |
| 57 | However , from the supplementary information collected , by questionnaire , from LEAs a year alter the initial review , there appeared to be some increase in the use of the reported incidence of practical work , and about two-thirds of the completed questionnaires indicated that calculator skills were tested . |
| 58 | There appeared to be some similarity with the decline of Macmillan 's regime in the early sixties — Cabinet reshuffles ; acute balance of payments ' difficulties , a shaky pound , and high interest rates ; a renewal of strikes on the railways , the docks , and in local government services ; a somewhat disaffected public apprehensive at Britain 's declining power in the world . |
| 59 | In practice , however , there appeared to be some ambivalence about whether care programming was aimed at people being discharged from hospital or at a wider range of those who use mental health services . |
| 60 | It had to be that way . |