Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( And before you shudder at the thought , may I , as someone who has been on the receiving end , assure you that it does not hurt . |
| 2 | Frankly , after what we 've been through together that 's nothing short of childish . |
| 3 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 4 | Yes , he has said that and I am saying , I am saying , as somebody who has been in the front line against this violence , and with due respect to Mr Major knows a little more about it than he does |
| 5 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 6 | At all stages in the development of armory , and in all the centuries during which it has been in use , there have been two conflicting underlying factors , and it is important that the local historian be aware of them from the outset , so that if false trails are followed they are not followed for long . |
| 7 | Let us remember that everything for which we legislate is for worse cases and blanket rules . |
| 8 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 9 | The explicit arguments of which I know are to my mind hopeless . |
| 10 | ‘ The bordello of which I talk is on the Rue la Boutie under the charge of Madam Edith . |
| 11 | Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto . |
| 12 | Okay Now as those of you who have been on a course will know er on a training course one thing I particularly ask you and we all do is to be open minded . |
| 13 | And any of you who have been to the United States may have experienced this . |
| 14 | Erm as the notes to this table indicate , it is a compilation by the panel secretary of what we believe is before us . |
| 15 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 16 | They do not need to go erm and th th they they have their own positions and I think a lot of what they speak is of genuine concern . |
| 17 | ‘ There is a land , ’ he whispered , so quiet that most of what he said was at first drowned by her rushings , ‘ that lies to the South , beyond a great blue sea . |
| 18 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 19 | The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV . |
| 20 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 21 | It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope . |
| 22 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 23 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 24 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 25 | Since the total grain harvest proved to be a mere 52 per cent of what it had been in 1913 , even the least affected areas had barely enough . |
| 26 | The level of truck loadings for 1922 was under one-third of what it had been in 1913 , although there was a vast improvement towards the end of the year . |
| 27 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 28 | Well you 've just you 've just er allow you 've just said something that allows me er to bring in er the way in which we approach advertising sales er Robert because er all of us who 've been in tra traditional sales , and I 'm I 'm just er that was my background as well er in addition to recruitment , er we are not used to giving everything over the phone before we go to see the people . |
| 29 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 30 | A book with a title like this has to be full of choice bits of information that confirm what most of us who have been in the Services have always known — that high-ranking officers can do the daftest things . |