Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 2 | Where has tha' been since I saw thee ? |
| 3 | ‘ It must hiv been when they took yer watch . ’ |
| 4 | The irony is that what gave me and other lesbians the |
| 5 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 6 | The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due . |
| 7 | The result was that he left my flat in a fuming temper , very gruff but very sober , and the broadcast was , I was given to understand , of consummate skill and effectiveness . |
| 8 | ‘ When I told him , his reply was that he thought I had liked going there , and he burst out with , ‘ Thank goodness you told me . |
| 9 | Well what really set my mind was when I lost my sister and my brother . |
| 10 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 11 | What is the issue is that you expected me to stay and I did n't . |
| 12 | The inevitable consequence of his marriage was that he forfeited his fellowship , and the security it had given him . |
| 13 | Her biggest regret was that she found it necessary to keep its existence from David . |
| 14 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 15 | On the facts the sole issue was whether he believed himself to be the beneficiary . |
| 16 | The only reason he did n't stop to annihilate both of us on his way home was that he knew there was n't a minute to lose . |
| 17 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 18 | And I fancy that erm a large part of his animus against latterday Oxford philosophy was that he suspected it of covert idealism , erm a preoccupation simply with the knowing mind , insufficient attention to the facts of the world as presented by science . |
| 19 | A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade . |
| 20 | ‘ Doc says the best bet , given the mark on her cheek is that someone slapped her one and she fell back . |
| 21 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 22 | If an owner dwelt in the township where his land was situated the logical inference is that he occupied it himself , although there was nothing to prevent him letting off part or all of it : the Langley Marish man Richard Collis features as ‘ tenaunt to ye Queene , in landes the yerely rente , vs ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 24 | The hallway was as she remembered it . |
| 25 | Anyway , the upshot was that he demanded there be a committee meeting this Thursday to work out a club strategy . ’ |
| 26 | Either Mr. Woodford had a twinkle in his eye or was just a good salesman , but the upshot was that he supplied my grandmother over many years , in his turn his son carried on and continued serving my mother , right up to 1949 when the Salisbury round had only two customers left . |
| 27 | Can I ask you what your reaction was when you knew you were going to be cautioned and not prosecuted ? |
| 28 | The very reason she had applied to the shipping company for a job was that she felt she needed a complete break , a change of scene . |
| 29 | ‘ The reason I chose to come here for a job was because I thought I had relations here . |
| 30 | The difference was that he accepted her attempt at consolation , taking her palm between both of his own hands , holding it gently and meeting her compassionate gaze with the glimmer of a smile . |