Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to know the lot , where you 'd been and what time you left him . ’ |
| 2 | What happened was that we allowed our critics to feed in information about prisons which was to our detriment . |
| 3 | What happened was that I mean you made curtains er the rusty red was affected by light , so eventually you got a curtain where where the red spots had been there were holes . |
| 4 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 5 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |
| 6 | ‘ All I meant was that I find it hard to imagine myself setting up home with someone else again . ’ |
| 7 | What really mattered was that he loved you and that tomorrow he would be waiting by the beech tree , at seven . |
| 8 | She did n't know ; all she knew was that she adored him more than before and she wanted him more desperately , therefore inevitably she was going to be more hurt than the first time . |
| 9 | All that she knew was that she needed it . |
| 10 | All she knew was that she wanted him out of her flat — and out of her life — before he managed to do any more harm . |
| 11 | These courses , designed to provide this information , were over-subscribed and the feedback from those who attended was that they wished they had been available earlier . |
| 12 | Berowne 's only explanation had been that he felt it was time for his life to take a new direction . |
| 13 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 14 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 15 | Everything was the same as it had been when he left it to go to the club the night before last . |
| 16 | He might just be one jump ahead of her as he had been when he stole her car space . |
| 17 | Her cutaway T-shirt was even more cutaway than it had been when she bought it . |
| 18 | At least , he had been when she married him . |
| 19 | In Phekoo by contrast the Court of Appeal went directly to the general principle , asking themselves Brett 's question , ‘ What would the position of the accused have been if the facts had been as he believed them to be ? ’ |
| 20 | All I said was that I thought it was a judgement from God that Blyth had first lost his leg and then had the replacement become the instrument of his downfall . |
| 21 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 22 | The first thing I realised was that I liked her . |
| 23 | The impression we got was that they thought it was pretty much his own fault . |