Example sentences of "[verb] be [art] [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has been a parent or had much to do with family and children will have seen the discrepancies . |
| 2 | He stopped being a spectator and goaded himself into action . |
| 3 | It stopped being a dream and began to be what I pretended could really happen . ’ |
| 4 | When he saw her horrified expression , however , he stopped being a doctor and became quite fatherly instead . |
| 5 | Mr Allan admitted keeping houses secure was a problem and said it seemed that young children were to blame for most of the damage and fires in the street . |
| 6 | And er , but this must have been a leet that came haf , from higher you see ? |
| 7 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 8 | It must have been a term that went without saying , a term necessary to give business efficacy to the contract , a term that , although tacit , formed part of the contract the parties made for themselves ( Trollope & Colls Ltd v North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board [ 1973 ] 2 All ER 260 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Her name is Robyn Doreian , ’ Must have been the spelling that clinched it . |
| 10 | It could well have been the Severum that did the killing , resenting an intruder . |
| 11 | ‘ It must have been the noise that woke me up , ’ Jessamy retorted sarcastically . |
| 12 | This odd looking engine named Ant ended its days at Hutch Bank Quarry but may also well have been the Ant that worked on the Brooks Quarries lines about Cloughfield . |
| 13 | It may have been the horse that roused me from my sleep . |
| 14 | Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel . |
| 15 | The ‘ better ’ one was the 13th , where the shot would have been an iron but became a four-wood because of one of Augusta 's rare bad lies . |
| 16 | He made a terrible swing of what I believe was a 4-iron and pulled his ball into the left trap . |
| 17 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 18 | What emerged was a scheme that sought the development of ‘ character ’ , partly through the expectation of certain standards of behaviour ( a kind of esprit de corps ) , and partly through doing ( activities ) . |
| 19 | Another layer that had to be pierced was the mystique that surrounded Rock and Ice routes . |
| 20 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
| 21 | One fighter had been a Skinhead and had worn the appropriate ‘ gear ’ of his time but had now grown out of this kind of thing . |
| 22 | Marius had been a skinhead and had assaulted a Turkish immigrant , fleeing the pending court case to join up in Lille . |
| 23 | At first it had been a shock and had made his heart beat faster . |
| 24 | Contrast with this case Hiort v. Bott , where A mistakenly sent an invoice for barley to B ( who had ordered none ) , which stated that B had bought the barley of A through G as broker ; and A also sent B a delivery order which made the barley deliverable to the order of A or of B. G then told B there had been a mistake and got B to endorse the delivery order to himself . |
| 25 | We had been a nation that had gone downhill , but that has been reversed . ’ |
| 26 | She could not speak , indeed , it was said she had not spoken for decades , though once she had been a singer and made up songs that others learned after her and still sang . |
| 27 | The youth 's mother said in a radio interview with IRN that the incident had been a prank that went wrong . |
| 28 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 29 | She had been an imbecile and deserved nothing more kind . |
| 30 | But it had been the padlock that had broken , not the chain . |