Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the characters they met are portrayed by Minton in the book . |
| 2 | Else says a shiver went up 'er spine , and she knew she 'ad been called . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Er weddin' dress 'ad been run up for 'er by Mrs Stuart that 'ad only just give up 'er job workin' for a dressmaker in Shoreditch . |
| 4 | The circumstances in which this litigation arose are described in the judgment delivered by Vinelott J. on 19 December 1989 as follows : |
| 5 | The kinds of errors he made are illustrated by these responses : |
| 6 | President , I 'd like to er , offer thanks on behalf of my membership in the Process and Construction Section , on the false agreement , it was a very successful week and just to echo Keith 's words , those links that we made are working and we are in correspondence with the , our colleagues in and we 're picking that up in terms of recruitment . |
| 7 | Meanings he argued are created by differences . |
| 8 | Laura reckons , ’ she continued , a salacious gleam in her toffee-brown eyes , ‘ old Po-face-that 's what they all calls him cos he never smiles-had been having it off with that secretary for weeks . |
| 9 | The constancy effects Thouless demonstrated are built into our perceptual mechanism . |
| 10 | Those I mentioned are taking place currently at Sussex , yes . |
| 11 | Its completely out of character for Rocky to have said this … probably some 3rd rate hack cornered him just after he 'd learnt hed been dropped . |
| 12 | I am surprised to hear a defence spokesman ask that question , because he knows that the two cases to which I referred are covered by the negative security assurances which made the use of nuclear weapons in such circumstances inconceivable . |
| 13 | Sections analysed were separated by at least 18μm . |
| 14 | Fresh tests on milk samples released last night showed 70 per cent of 238 dairy farms analysed were producing milk with lead levels above the Department of Health 's recommended safety limit , although 72 farms were within the limit of less than 0.05 milligrams of lead per litre . |
| 15 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 16 | Because the women he raped and assaulted were trusting enough to accept one glass of wine from him ? |
| 17 | ‘ A pretty ’ manufacturing town , Dursley had several residents who look as though they operated the water trucking mills ; unusually for the area , more than half the fifty-two persons listed were rated at less than 40s. , some of them probably millhands , though others must have laboured in the stone quarry which caught Leland 's eye . |
| 18 | Less than half the wines listed were selected for awards making the standard set one of the highest in the world . |
| 19 | An unfortunate error also resulted in seventeen questionnaires with the question deleted being issued on a week day . |
| 20 | The services promised were to provide a room , fuel , clothing , to wash clothing , or to visit if sick . |
| 21 | After extensive washing with equilibration buffer , the proteins retained were eluted by adding 10 ml a 0.1–1 M KCl gradient in Tris-HCl pH7.4 . |
| 22 | One of the more common Manhattan experiences of the early 1980s involved being approached by well-dressed individuals and asked to sign a petition helping the NAP get on the ballot in the name of democracy , and then being hit for a contribution . |
| 23 | For this study , when tests of mothers ' serum were the basis for referral the type of tests used were ascertained . |
| 24 | ‘ Close to the 50th anniversary of the glorious Dambusters raid it is marvellous to be on the site where the bombs they used were developed , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 26 | The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation . |
| 27 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 28 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 29 | In one large-scale study , the secondary mathematics project ‘ CSMS ’ ( Hart , 1981 ) , extensive interviewing was carried out on a range of mathematical topics , and the strategies that pupils used were identified . |
| 30 | Potten et al are the first to point out that their findings are based entirely on the study of patients with colorectal cancer and , although the specimens used were taken at least 5 cm from the primary carcinoma and did not show any unusual histological features , there may be differences with respect to the colonic mucosa of patients without carcinoma . |