Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first time it stopped raining was on the ferry back from Boulogne . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The year in which social welfare spending 's rising share of the national income stopped rising was 1976 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What I found startling was the maturity of the crews . |
| 8 | Clearly , such aspects of Cnut 's rule as Wulfstan found displeasing are unlikely to be directly represented in his work , and some chapters are accordingly very difficult to interpret . |
| 9 | According to Dr Richard Earle , director of the IOS , accelerated ageing is most likely to set in between 40 and 50 , with women ageing faster during this decade than men ( an average of eighteen years compared to fifteen ) . |
| 10 | Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience . |
| 11 | Amongst the people who came visiting was a young Maidenhead medical student . |
| 12 | Apart from a handful of friends that were his own age , like Nicholas Soames and Lord Romsey — who were still fourteen or fifteen years Diana 's senior — most of the people Charles enjoyed seeing were older , with the result that Diana frequently found she was socializing with her father 's , or even grandfather 's , generation . |
| 13 | Besides birds , which obviously fascinated me the most , there were many kinds of spiders , ants , termites , bees and other insects in the forest , but the species that we enjoyed collecting were beautiful butterflies , dragonflies and cicadas . |
| 14 | Since no apprentices were taken after 1910 , and since the age at which girls normally left school and began working was fourteen ( give or take a few months ) , the youngest women in the sample were born in 1896 . |
| 15 | It did so badly afterwards that I decided racing was not for me . |
| 16 | This same lateral braced bridling is found on the flexible Parafoils or Stratoscoop types . |
| 17 | But the reason I started performing was because of my boyfriend at the time — he writes Coronation Street now so he 's doing all right , no sympathy . |
| 18 | Finally , long after her ‘ spot ’ had been and gone , Deborah arrived , hot and flustered having been shunted down the Thames from London Weekend on a boat with a troupe of belly dancers all making last minute adjustments to their costumes , or lack of them . |
| 19 | After my early success in The Railway Children , I thought acting was the most wonderful thing . |
| 20 | But all I kept getting was thirty four |
| 21 | And all he kept doing was twisting my arm last night , and my leg bummer ! |
| 22 | In May 1890 , the minutes state that ‘ the old Saloon Shed having been pulled down to make room for the new Paint Shop , a shed is required for the three shunt engines ’ . |
| 23 | we walked out of there at twenty five past twelve and all she kept saying is , what about your lollipop ? |
| 24 | All Nanny kept saying was that we would all meet again , ’ Artemis insisted . |
| 25 | One word they kept repeating was the Latin ‘ Luciferi ’ and I remembered my assailants in the alley . |
| 26 | Where you went skiing is this side of Austria , but Vienna is about two hundred and two hundred and fifty miles further on across Austria , very close to erm Czechoslovakia and erm Yugoslavia . |
| 27 | I 've managed to erm , the first time we went skiing is when we lived in the States , we went to like , er , not dry ski slopes there , but it was like false snow , that 's the same as you erm , they were really , was like eleven years ago , sort of like , technology had n't quite advanced terribly much , you know , and these bindings , you had like , metal clips on the bottom of your boots , and you had to put the thing in and clip the boot , clip the thing round on the skis , to keep your boot on the ski , right , it was n't like toe clips where you shove your foot , |
| 28 | After acquiring conditioned suppression to a CS in context A , rats received non-reinforced presentation of this CS in either A or B. It is apparent from the figure that conditioned responding was equally likely in both test contexts — that there was no evidence in this phase of training for context-specificity . |
| 29 | Sixty years ago mixed bathing was only allowed in the Council swimming baths at Bradford-on-Avon if the bathers were related . |
| 30 | However , Peter Bakalov , US vice president of Huron marketing , said downsizing was only one aspect of Huron 's role . |