Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 2 | Well , now that she was no longer there , he would have to pay attention ; would know that she had been serious . |
| 3 | Does she know that you 've been unfaithful to her once already and are willing to be again — except that this time I 'm not co-operating ? |
| 4 | Two off-duty prison officers who were also in the minibus were beaten up and then released , but three others who escaped claimed that they had been unable to get help from a nearby police and Army checkpoint . |
| 5 | Even without this problem , it should be our objective to advance negotiations , contract drafting and due diligence as far as possible with the preferred bidder before the remaining offerers realise that they have been unsuccessful . |
| 6 | I say that I have been sick with flu . |
| 7 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 8 | When Cato 's supporters arrived at court they found that they had been pre-empted . |
| 9 | Mrs Hawkins reported that she had been unable to take photos at this location as she had first to finish off a slide film , but will soon be in a position to take the required photos and also others to be displayed at the A.G.M. and then stored in the village archives . |
| 10 | After some weeks , Paisley reported that he had been unable to persuade the speaker of the House of Commons to allow the Black case to be raised in an adjournment debate and that he was pessimistic of having it raised in Parliament in any other form . |
| 11 | I did n't even know if they had been responsible but I had nothing more to offer . |
| 12 | He wanted to know if I minded being illegitimate … ’ |
| 13 | They say unless you 've been unemployed six months you 're not unemployed . |
| 14 | Lastly , the GCSE requires pupils to wait for the length of a two-year course before they can know whether they have been successful , whereas a record of achievement is only the most recent and perhaps summarizing statement of progress which the pupils themselves have monitored and recorded . |
| 15 | Therefore in borderline cases the prosecution might have to rely on the severity of injury and damage , or the noise of the accident , to help prove to the court beyond all reasonable doubt that the driver must have realised that he had been involved in an accident . |
| 16 | Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all . |
| 17 | Yeah , she thinks that she 's been big already |
| 18 | ‘ In our dealings with North West companies we find that many have shown increases in productivity and earnings , even during the recession , proving that they have been able to compete effectively in the international arena , ’ she said , adding that there was nevertheless no room for complacency . |
| 19 | Whilst suggesting that he had been keen to run , he explained his decision on the grounds that his obligation to the people of his state came before his personal ambition for the presidency . |
| 20 | He was dressed in work clothes — tailored dark grey trousers and a cream shirt — but the latter was open at the neck and he wore no tie , suggesting that he had been ready for a relaxing Friday evening drink . |
| 21 | He realised that he had been foolish to risk the search alone , but there was no turning back . |
| 22 | We deny that we have been disdainful of patients : we were investigating a concern expressed by them in the most objective way we could . |
| 23 | So , although we have of course taken a view of what has been significant , we deny that we have been ethnocentric in our choice of an Anglo-American focus . |
| 24 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 25 | The girl gave a tight grin , amused that she 'd been right . |
| 26 | Mr Reynolds admitted that he had been afraid to eat or drink because of the possible effects on his bowel and bladder . |
| 27 | It is also the same week that the Bank of England ( whose governor was last year awarded a £22,000 pay increase ) admitted that it had been over-optimistic when three months ago it predicted the recession was ending . |
| 28 | She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent . |
| 29 | Such remarks , along with the usual party-political imperatives , mean that she has been subject to reflex ridicule for being out of step . |
| 30 | Churchill , as First Lord of the Admiralty , could not explain that he had been conscious of enemy intentions , without giving away the secret that German codes were being broken . |