Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would this be because she had something to hide , he wondered , or was she inhibited by her clerical top brass . |
| 2 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 3 | This is because it reminded me of the type of frame one might put around a tapestry or sampler , and I feel this symmetrical design is somewhat reminiscent of sampler work and needlework in general . |
| 4 | Few things seem to have been left out , but this is because he based his work squarely on such useful volumes as Michael Darby 's The Islamic Perspective and A. St Clair 's The Image of the Turk in Europe , and a large number of other texts besides . |
| 5 | This is because he broke his watch in the process and handed the busted bits to photographer Pennie Smith . |
| 6 | This was before I did my Leaving . |
| 7 | And additional cross-tabulations not included in Appendix I showed that two per cent of those buying for cash said that this was because they thought they probably would n't be able to get credit . |
| 8 | They had faith in him , and I believe that this was because they knew he had faith in them . |
| 9 | This was because he used them as guidebooks . |
| 10 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 11 | As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself . |
| 12 | The upshot of it all was that they wanted me to ask Derek would he come in for a sperm count . |
| 13 | The pubs we entered McDaid 's , Tommy Wright 's , Mulligan 's , O'Shea 's Merchant , O'Donoghue 's and many more are as we left them . |
| 14 | The first is that I felt my battle to be with authority , whether in the form of teachers , matrons , parents , or even nature itself . |
| 15 | Twenty one was when you finished your apprenticeship , |
| 16 | The first was that he said he wanted an interval before he ‘ took on ’ Shakespeare again . |
| 17 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 18 | So we basically done to what that is although they said they were just gon na dri , drill a one point nine five |
| 19 | ‘ If so , that is because it suited my uncle 's purpose — he will use Buckingham just as long as it suits him and not a moment longer . ’ |
| 20 | They all think that 's like he said they think oh stand up in the corridor , that 's alright , Amy said if you do n't if you have a holiday , you do n't get no money |
| 21 | ‘ That 's because she made you . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's because you told her to . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That 's because you trusted her . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Ah , that 's because I knew you were cheap , ’ the boyfriend said . |
| 25 | That 's because I told her what they said to me in erm erm |
| 26 | That 's because I mailed it myself . |
| 27 | It looks like 16mm film because it 's Kodak Gold and that 's because I wanted it to look like good-quality home snaps as opposed to a kind of beautiful , arty shot . |
| 28 | no that 's because I wanted it before |
| 29 | Plans took shape … that 's if we bought it . |
| 30 | That 's cos I told them . |