Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillor and Councillor mentioned testing and they 're dead right , I oppose it , it 's an irrelevance , a complete distraction . |
| 2 | On the issue of business confidence , the study revealed that economic confidence was returning , with 77 per cent of companies surveyed believing that they were well placed to lead the country out of recession . |
| 3 | There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings . |
| 4 | So we , we th that , that was er another good thing they , they got going but there was very little for , for nurses to do . |
| 5 | That unsettled me a bit , but we eventually got going and it was all right . |
| 6 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 7 | Most people who have visited Pisa know that the Torre Pendente began toppling while it was still being built . |
| 8 | And as if one needed reminding that there 's more to this year 's contest than Karaoke , four of the 11 acts competing were to provide their own original accompaniment . |
| 9 | I admit , the figure 's gone a bit , but then it started going when I was still twenty-five . |
| 10 | One day I started crying because I was so upset about how poorly he was . |
| 11 | As soon as we got there , I started yelling for I was really scared , thought I should drown , but the grown-ups just laughed and off we slid , down the steep slope to hit the water with a mighty splash , then gently floated to the other side of the pool to disembark . |
| 12 | Bedworth , of North Parade , Ilkley , West Yorkshire , started hacking when he was only 14 and made ‘ electronic friends ’ with other hackers . |
| 13 | It 's as if the relationship needed redefining and I was n't committed to doing that . |
| 14 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 15 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 16 | However , when researchers plugged the ears of volunteers , their facial vision disappeared showing that they were actually being guided by sound . |
| 17 | when we got down there , and erm , rang the bloke and he was n't in and we kept ringing and he was n't in . |
| 18 | ‘ At nine miles I felt fine , but kept thinking that I was only one third of the way round the course . |
| 19 | It was a lunchtime event which proved most enjoyable , and people left realising that it 's not only the banks that can do something to cover themselves . |