Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he applied for was funding for research on ‘ The influence of geometry on social behaviour ’ . |
| 2 | A fat lot he even cared about being late for church and she trying to keep up a good style . |
| 3 | It was as if the only thing he cared about was the stupid thing . |
| 4 | And the only thing I cared about was the damn foolishness of the banning . |
| 5 | The nurses here wrote down every day on Stephen 's chart how many hours he had cried , but neither Sloan nor Dr Turner turned a hair when they looked at that on the chart ; all they cared about was the weight curve . |
| 6 | All they cared about was drink . |
| 7 | All he cared about was booze , but he still got the job done before he got soaked . |
| 8 | In the winter of 1518 all I cared about was surviving and life was hard in Paris . |
| 9 | Soon the dandelions came , all they cared about was blooming , getting their white clocks and blowing their babies far away . |
| 10 | She learnt a look and a posture and a set of adjectives which passed for being hip in the Village . |
| 11 | The answer was a kick on the eyebrow which I almost mistook for being shot . |
| 12 | ‘ I was asking what you 'd do if you discovered someone you cared for was doing wrong . |
| 13 | The timetable that my hon. Friend asked about is as follows . |
| 14 | But many of the symptoms asked about were reported for similar proportions of those who had been in residential homes and those who had not ; these were pain , trouble with breathing , vomiting or feeling sick , drowsiness , sleeplessness , dry mouth or thirst , depression , loss of appetite , difficulty swallowing , dizziness , bed sores , an unpleasant smell , and backache . |
| 15 | After entering the introductory corps at Ruffwood Comprehensive School , he joined the regular army at 16 and ‘ lived for being a soldier ’ . |
| 16 | What he asked for is easily purchasable and easily disposable . |
| 17 | It 's the library here , just to say the book he asked for is in . |
| 18 | Fourthly and finally , the nature of the participation asked for is not made clear . |
| 19 | The next thing she asked for was a job to do for the Lord . |
| 20 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 21 | ‘ All I asked for was a month 's peace and quiet to get some work done . |
| 22 | But this did not really hit orthodox Christianity , for prayers are always subject to the thing asked for being God 's will ; and He moves in a mysterious way , so that the workings of Providence may not be apparent until long afterwards . |
| 23 | But that 's the one she asked for were n't it ? |
| 24 | This is the truth my lad and the first I made for was for the that , just off Canada , is is New Foundland ? |
| 25 | Mr La Malfa , who quit after being officially warned he is suspected of breaking party financing laws , is the second party leader to resign under a cloud this month after the Socialist leader , Bettino Craxi . |
| 26 | Miss Bayliss , who has a six-year-old daughter , initially refused to be searched but agreed after being told she would not be able to see her brother Michael , a heroin addict . |
| 27 | Dornier , the German company which built ROSAT , is trying to cover how it failed after being hit by high-energy particles from a solar flare . |
| 28 | Lawyers representing the 51 who died when the Marchioness pleasure boat sank after being in collision with a dredger on the Thames , have given the owners of the vessels until tomorrow evening to agree to pay full compensation - estimated at between £6m and £7m . |
| 29 | The prom at Southsea , Hants , was closed as 60mph winds threw up rocks and boats sank after being ripped from moorings . |
| 30 | Other notable features were ( i ) the participation of athletes from the member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) and Georgia as a " Unified Team " , a transitional arrangement ; ( ii ) the participation of South Africa , readmitted after being banned since 1960 because of its apartheid policy ; and ( iii ) rigorous testing for drug abuse , which led to the disqualification of five athletes who had tested positive at the games for banned substances ( one each from Lithuania , China and the Unified Team and two from the United States ) , exactly half the number disqualified at the Seoul games in 1988 . |