Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such samples of the population as we accidently encountered were not promising . |
| 2 | Only ‘ Spinster ’ and ‘ Bawd ’ , two poems that I suddenly realised were dramatic monologues anyway . |
| 3 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 4 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 5 | And so Rose was patient with her fits of crying and her colic and her teething fretfulness . |
| 6 | In contrast to Foch always ready to adopt the conqueror 's pose , one foot before the other , Pétain so hated being photographed that the only portrait Repington could find in 1918 for The Times was one of him characteristically glaring at the camera . |
| 7 | As I think members will have realised from my visits to each of our 25 Sections during my year of office , I very much enjoyed being Chairman . |
| 8 | So entranced was he by all this technology that he half expected the same voice to thank him . |
| 9 | One of the intellectuals whose company I greatly enjoyed was Albert Rhys Williams , an erudite Russophile of the first order . |
| 10 | I think a book that I have recently read and greatly enjoyed was , in fact , Graham Greene 's The Honorary Consul , which is now available in paperback . |
| 11 | There we discovered the £7.50 hamburger meal , flower-selling girls with Chanel handbags and wealthy exhibitionists who apparently enjoyed being part of a human zoo , preening themselves on their extravagant yachts while the hoi-polloi stared up from the quayside . |
| 12 | 789–90 that his oldest son , Charles , should marry one of Offa 's daughters may already have been more an attempt to ‘ patch up bad relations ’ than to give effect to good ones , and , when acceptance of this extremely prestigious offer was made dependent by Offa on one of Charlemagne 's daughters marrying Ecgfrith , so affronted was Charlemagne that he gave orders that no one from Britain and the Anglian race was to land on the sea-coast of Gaul for the sake of commerce . |
| 13 | So shocked was he , and flying so fast , that he gulped and swallowed her whole . |
| 14 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 15 | The rule of thumb I constantly exercised was to record them while they were still fresh in my mind , generally the same day . |
| 16 | Rose had noticed this and she had put it down to the awe and respect in which the man she so loved was held , and she was loath to see differently now . |
| 17 | ‘ If you do n't ask him with 100 percent commitment and effort he wo n't do it , yet the feeling I got when it suddenly clicked was just amazing ! ’ |
| 18 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 19 | The texture of his voice was unfamiliar , and his face , when Eochaid glanced up , was drained with some sort of force which Eochaid suddenly saw was consuming anger . |
| 20 | Matilda , Countess of Anjou and Princess of England , occupied her great , carved chair as though she sat upon the throne she stubbornly insisted was hers . |
| 21 | I was aware of your love of language and literature and the involvement which you obviously felt was contagious , and came over to me as being very real . |
| 22 | For one thing , the Labour Party leaders would not contemplate an alliance with the Communist Party , which they rightly feared was merely aiming to use Labour to gain political support and which was involved in almost needless violence against the supremely unimportant British fascists . |
| 23 | It was lovely actually , we all did was read stories nice little stories so |
| 24 | It occurred to her that in any other circumstances the only description for what she and Dr Neil constantly did was flirting . |
| 25 | His school reports testified to a faultless pupil ; adjectives that constantly recurred were : ‘ Conscientious , pleasant , quiet , helpful , and promising . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ As you yourself informed us last night , and the lord sheriff has since confirmed , to our endless regret , and surely to yours , the young man you so beguiled is now dead , here within our walls , and shall be at our charge for the rites due to him . |
| 27 | So did is an anaphoric verb phrase ; that is to say , its referential properties operate not directly , but indirectly , through a previously mentioned verb phrase , in this case expired last Thursday , which must be re-applied , this time with John as subject . |
| 28 | Tutorial Classes were firmly in the university sector and some LEAs were arranging classes which hitherto had been the preserve of the WEA , e.g. civics and esperanto , and even as early as 1936 , the number was relatively substantial ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 29 | When pressure was eventually put on L.E.A.s in the 1950s to take over employment of the various county organisers whose salaries hitherto had been paid from Carnegie Trust funds , most authorities did so on condition that the organisers ' work should be extended to schools . |
| 30 | Her life hitherto had been a preparation — she recognized that now . |