Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one of those things that we think lies dormant , and can flare up if the patient has been under strain or run down . |
| 2 | James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York , one of the first to warn of the dangers of global warming , agrees that most of the warming has been at night but expects warming factors eventually to overtake cooling factors , leading to significant rises in daytime temperatures . |
| 3 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 4 | First find out how long the present syllabus has been in force and try to obtain for yourself as many past papers as possible set to that syllabus . |
| 5 | Given the amount of time that Karsten Schubert has been in business and given the new wave of gallery/dealers , this year is going to be the year to break with a much more open policy towards new art , are being seen as central to the contemporary art scene . |
| 6 | They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend . |
| 7 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 8 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 9 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |
| 10 | I can remember being in Australia and looking through magazines and seeing the names of the photographers who are now doing my shoots and thinking : ‘ Oh wow ! ’ |
| 11 | Enthusiastic as some of the clergy may have been for war and seduced as they sometimes were by their own eloquence and propaganda for it , they were less eager about the burdens which it entailed . |
| 12 | Having been to confession and passed through ‘ the wall of fire ’ , Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope , ‘ the suggestion about an orgy of egoism turns out , like all the Enemy propaganda , to have just a grain of truth in it , but I have no doubt that the proper method of dealing with that is as I intend to do , to continue the practice . |
| 13 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 14 | Let us assume the player is unsure where to begin ; he knows only that his chord playing is below par and wishes to improve it . |
| 15 | Mrs Bennet had been into town and brought back details of the damage . |
| 16 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 17 | He had been to Aberdeen and joined the Gordon Highlanders . |
| 18 | He had been to Sandhurst and served in a cavalry regiment before going to Kenya to farm . |
| 19 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 20 | It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day . |
| 21 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 22 | Gqozo later claimed that his troops had been under attack and had acted in self-defence . |
| 23 | The entry had been by invitation and restricted to forty-eight amateurs and forty-eight professionals . |
| 24 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 25 | Bush denied that he had been in Paris and called for an end to the " rumour-mongering " concerning the affair . |
| 26 | The purpose was to make applicable to building societies the composite rate system which had been in force as respects bank interest since the Finance Act 1984 . |
| 27 | His father , the last trained pastor in the country , had been in prison and suffered greatly there for 8 years . |
| 28 | Yet many of the children had been in bookshops and knew them not to be so . |
| 29 | When you 've been through death and live again you 're changed all through . |
| 30 | AS ANNOYING as ‘ Sesame Street ’ but funnier when you 've been to Amsterdam and seen an ocean of techno heads pogo-ing like Zebedee on amphetamines . |