Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The warders you asked to see are here , Mr Nicholson , ’ his secretary told him . |
| 2 | See , what you got to realize is — there are rules . ’ |
| 3 | When the dark blue sidecar , a red coat-of-arms on its tailboard and a grey horse between its shafts , came swirling towards her , iron-tyred wheels crunching merrily along , with the noble sound of a horse 's well-shod feet , the very last person she expected to see was Anderson . |
| 4 | What she undoubtedly failed to see was just how remarkable her Scottish kingdom was , both in its political life and in its perceptions of itself and other nations . |
| 5 | Among the high-powered list of people expected to attend are Noel Davies , chief executive of Laird 's parent company VSEL , local MPs , trade union leaders and Merseyside Development Corporation chief Chris Farrow . |
| 6 | The only cookery I got taught was survival training in the SAS . ’ |
| 7 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 8 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 9 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 10 | The first time it stopped raining was on the ferry back from Boulogne . |
| 11 | After all the doubts and uncertainties , wrote Harsnet , most of which I did not admit to myself , or else tried to pretend were an integral part of the project , sense now that it is on its way . |
| 12 | It was as though he were making up for inadequacies of which he was aware but which he tried to pretend were not there . |
| 13 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 14 | ’ Posi , ’ I said carefully , ’ give me a list of what the old data packages you found says are the special powers of the Ardakkeans . |
| 15 | They then put us on trucks to bring us here and anyone who tried to escape was beaten senseless . " |
| 16 | Termination of the agreement by the HP finance company if the consumer stopped paying was allowed only if he had disregarded a default notice allowing him at least a week to pay up . |
| 17 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 18 | What the group 's paper tried to suggest was that we do n't simply endure the existence of the private sector . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State referred to help being given to Russian scientists . |
| 20 | In the whole course of our friendship , what I never ventured to do was to send him any poetry . |
| 21 | Essentially , what we proposed to do was straightforward . |
| 22 | All he tried to do was relax and enjoy himself , ‘ and everything just fell into place . ’ |
| 23 | What I tried to do was one of those |
| 24 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 25 | The year in which social welfare spending 's rising share of the national income stopped rising was 1976 . |
| 26 | Another brother they tried to contact was worse than useless apparently . |
| 27 | All employees identified by linkage to industrial records also reported that they had worked in the nuclear industry and no additional parents reported having been an employee . |
| 28 | In an experimental study of a case management service for homeless mentally ill people only two out of 94 people referred in a year reported having been admitted to hospital for a year or longer . |
| 29 | These were the number accidents the driver reported having being involved in over the past five years and the number of near misses they had experienced in the previous year . |
| 30 | Something of the difference between working for Dean or Balcon and for John Maxwell can be gleaned from the fact that denizens of the latter referred to BIP 's script department as the Borstal . |