Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Court archives included much material of interest , but the people who consulted them were almost exclusively clerks who needed to establish points for cases : they were not used for history-making . |
| 2 | I expect that the people who made them were influenced by the Labour party 's ’ Standard No. 17 ’ , which was circulated among people in the area . |
| 3 | They can make tracks and footmarks in the snow , and on finding footmarks can guess which way the person who made them was going . |
| 4 | No I tell you why I chucked them is because they 're a better make are n't they , K P ? |
| 5 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 6 | The first thing I said to the commissioning editors when I met them is that I would not commission one programme . |
| 7 | The Orc Warlord that led them was Azhag the Slaughterer , and under his command were tribes of Orcs and Goblins from the highlands around Red Eye Mountain . |
| 8 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 9 | What really concerned me was how to finance a tunnel project of any kind . |
| 10 | What particularly concerned me was their feeling that Balbinder seemed to understand and respond better in Punjabi . |
| 11 | The other thing that concerned me was particular slots which do n't seem to ever produce much in the way of attendance or revenue . |
| 12 | The only thing that concerned me was that , with Stephen Pears injured , I was the oldest player in the team . |
| 13 | As we have seen the Prague School were also interested in the content of texts as well as their language , but what concerned them was the structure of the content as a self-contained system of signs to be separated out into its different levels , not the overall impression that it conveys . |
| 14 | The Chairman of the Governors asked me was there a precedent in a flowing her to come into the interviews , and I said ‘ No , the precedent has already been set and that she was n't in on the other appointments . ’ |
| 15 | Last thing he asked me was where he might find Florrie Shaw . |
| 16 | Th th the point that erm we were then discussing was that in practice of course males may , m ma may contribute a lot more an and , and the question was is this er something to do with the adaptions of our species or is it just the this was the question you , you asked me was n't it ? |
| 17 | Once I realised no-one was hurt then came the dreaded moment . |
| 18 | What got me is , when we went out to this , this shopping mall , where we were , when we go to have this brunch , she was in . |
| 19 | What got me was the way she made this rather bizarre suggestion seem so utterly reasonable . |
| 20 | ROBBIE What got me was when I went to other folks ' houses . |
| 21 | By the same token , the public school choice would not be surprised to find that the Labour Party opposition regarded the official unemployment figures as underestimates The arguments that divided them are illustrated in Table 10–2 , which reproduces in a slightly amended form a table that appeared in The Sunday Times ( 6 November 1983 ) . |
| 22 | And the railway track that divided them was lines of men in uniform who cradled machine-pistols , who held tight to dragging dogs . |
| 23 | The curtain which divided them was wearing thin . |
| 24 | Indeed , Blundell fears that UK food surpluses may be transient because the intensive agriculture that produced them is not sustainable . |
| 25 | Whereas the aim of social advancement is to reduce individual inequalities but the social environment which produced them is left intact ( on the assumption that these inequalities are due to inadequate education effort on the part of individuals , the state or to inequality of ‘ education gifts ’ ) , the aim of the collective advancement is to give individual education and , at the same time , influence the social context in which the individuals live : an effort is made to involve as many persons as possible in the education campaign . |
| 26 | However , in light of what has been said earlier , it should not be thought that data materials , to call them that , are always restricted to one study , or that the study which originally produced them is their only home . |
| 27 | It was a position of strange intimacy ; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world . |
| 28 | So they came running back , saying this thing you sold me is a load of rubbish , Wool Woolwich say it 's not good enough , you know , what 's it all about . |
| 29 | Whether he deliberately sought them is not clear . |
| 30 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |