Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [conj] i [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That , and my only tape , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , reminding me of where I 've been and where I 've come from . |
| 2 | ‘ I think the only lasting effect it 's had on me is that if I get married , it 's got to be forever . |
| 3 | I sometimes like to think it was my eloquence , but the fact of the matter is that if I had got up on my hind legs and suggested a bit of Karaoke instead of the morning service , they would have leaped at it . |
| 4 | It is as though I 've burped during Evensong . |
| 5 | It is as though I have spent those motionless hours on her sofa in the hands of a hairdresser , hypnotist and clairvoyant combined . |
| 6 | It is as though I have left the dull class rooms of the world and the discordant sound of the trampling feet and I have reached a place far from men where my mind is moved by universal rhythms . |
| 7 | A major part of the mystery was that as I have said O sat on Madame 's right hand all night every night ; and he never left without kissing her goodnight , formally , on the cheek . |
| 8 | Now , you did once tell me , very very recently in fact , that you were the the father of this Council s with rather a contradiction in fact was that because I 've seen you trotting around the corridors of this er this Council and it you 're more like the baby of the Council than er than the father , but I I do bow to your superior knowledge of Councilling . |
| 9 | ‘ 'T WAS as though I 'd lost something beyond price . |
| 10 | It was as though I had died to the old way — and yet I was alive in a new kind of way . |
| 11 | ‘ It was as though I had let them all down . |
| 12 | It was as though I had slept and had dreamed . |