Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is also clear that Denning started off with a presumption that everyone involved was innocent and that at some stage he had personal doubts as to whether this was indeed so . |
| 2 | Right okay so you so I asked are you happy with the twenty four hour clock you say no and then you know it . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked is the haddock finnan ? ’ said a querulous voice . |
| 4 | Well the specific question I asked is whether you 've quantified in percentage terms erm perhaps Group Captain you could give us an indication of how it has affected it ? |
| 5 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 6 | The questions I asked were are what are they feeling ? |
| 7 | The second question that I asked was : ‘ Why had the widow got into the situation she was in ? ’ |
| 8 | Another question I asked was how Bill learnt his gardening skills . |
| 9 | ‘ Yul was determined that every question I asked be answered . |
| 10 | Animals always came first — every book I read was about them . ’ |
| 11 | The full title was not visible but what I read was , ‘ Paint along with — ’ Whom , I have been asking myself since . |
| 12 | Well , erm I think the first novel of George Eliot that I read was Adam Bede , and I think that that 's actually quite a good starting point . |
| 13 | An example of the latter point I made is shown on pg 45 where he tells of how he came to know Eddie . |
| 14 | My colleagues were present sir and have informed me that the comment that I made is actually accurate . |
| 15 | I listened to this tale of woe and as I dug with my tiny spade , wondered what I might find , an arm or perhaps a leg , but the only discoveries that I made were small pieces of coal washed up on the beach . |
| 16 | ( With a little re-working I even found the sweaters I made were nice enough to give as Christmas presents ! ) |
| 17 | I was never popular and I had few friends , but such friendships as I made were mostly lasting . |
| 18 | The references that I made were not to Labour party documents but to papers published by the chambers of commerce . |
| 19 | In a public statement Bradley , who was liable to fines for failing to report major investments , said : " The errors I made were not deliberate . |
| 20 | I 'd love to be a record success again , but the last LP I made was so bloody personal it was ludicrous : you ca n't write songs about those you love , your children , and expect other people to buy them … |
| 21 | I know some people might think the decision I made was unpleasant and monstrous but I want to tell how I came to make the decision and the reasons behind it . |
| 22 | ‘ The biggest mistake I made was to start playing professional golf so early , ’ he explains . |
| 23 | I BELIEVE the decision I made was commonsense — the right one in the circumstances . |
| 24 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 25 | Though what came into my mind when I realized was n't Cogito , ergo sum . |
| 26 | It 's simply the way that I 've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed . |
| 27 | The first thing I realised was that I liked her . |
| 28 | In Vienna , what was most distinctive was the type of bourgeois identity , which I argued was a ‘ baroque ’ identity , largely conditioned , as Carl Schorske noted , by the salient presence of a Catholic court nobility . |
| 29 | And then there was another sound which I did n't like to think about at all , but which I presumed was Jack Scamp hailing his last London cab . |
| 30 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |