Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the directors insisted that the cashier 's records should be examined and it soon became clear that there were discrepancies in the accounts . |
| 2 | What he saw he painted as exactly as could be painted but he certainly knew when to catch each view in its most romantic moment . |
| 3 | Some élite karateka have travelled all the way to an international competition only to be disbarred because they never took out their passports ! |
| 4 | I thought it might be drugged so I only pretended to drink it , putting the cup to my lips and setting it down again full after an interval . |
| 5 | Er it seems to me that erm there are probably quite a few policies in the structure plan that could be omitted if we just took the all the P P Gs as read . |
| 6 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 7 | Our objective measures of light intensity would be discarded if they universally gave answers that contradicted our subjective experiences . |
| 8 | Was it because the Holy Ones feared that the key to this inner knowledge and the inner voice would be misused that they never revealed their knowledge ? |
| 9 | The details to be included in the public registers to be established under the bill had yet to be decided but he personally favoured ‘ more information rather than less . ’ |
| 10 | This time , of course , she was not only armed with the foreknowledge of what would be said but she still had in her mind the conversation we had just had about making mistakes . |
| 11 | I 've met Ollie Reed on two different film sets — The Big Sleep and The Class of Miss MacMichael — and it has to be said that he certainly appeared totally sober . |
| 12 | Nothing could be said and they just sat in silence enjoying each other 's company . |
| 13 | However , Strawson goes on to suggest that the transformation in our attitudes which would be needed if we ever came to believe that all our actions had this character is beyond our capacities . |
| 14 | It was when he attempted to argue , ‘ I would n't be bothered if I never had another ride in the National , ’ that he began to give himself away . |
| 15 | It was later to be alleged that he deliberately falsified his nationality , claiming to be English when he was not . |
| 16 | Suppose Adam were to be arrested before he even reached his father ? |
| 17 | In 1901 the question of the Sovereign 's Accession Declaration and Coronation Oath became public when Edward VII , with his High Church views , let it be known that he thoroughly detested the clauses denouncing the Mass . |
| 18 | How much of a threat this posed to those drapers who themselves furnished funerals is not recorded , but as none appear to have taken legal action , it can only be assumed that they too had dealings with these manufacturers whilst continuing to offer a funeral service to the general public . |
| 19 | That one is deliberately being allowed to dry out because it 's got to be re-coopered cos it never worked properly . |