Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 2 | ‘ You mean you were sitting where you are now and you told the glass to topple over and it did ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And so , after having a good , long talk about the problem with both Liz and Owen , Ross decided that it would be best if we brought the girls back here , to London , until their parents leave hospital . ’ |
| 4 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 5 | It would be best if you saw the boy yourself . ’ |
| 6 | Dandelion , the dashing story-teller , so eager to be off that he jumped the ditch and ran a little way into the field before stopping to wait for the rest . |
| 7 | And she definitely did n't want to be around when he got the news that she wanted a divorce . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps we should encourage young novelists ’ ; ‘ the Booker Prize is a media junket ’ ; ‘ actually , I 'm here because I wrote the book ’ . |
| 9 | I 'm here because I drew the short straw when Jan Killeen was dishing out people to chair particular interest groups in preparation for this work , and I drew the job of chairing the group on private care issues . |
| 10 | They would not be there unless they shared the European ideal and believed themselves to be an integral part of the process of European unity . |
| 11 | but she were n't there so , whether and then I rang down Susan 's , I thought they might be there but nobody answered the phone , so I thought well |
| 12 | He would like to be there when they shot the bastard . |
| 13 | You wanted to be there when he found the box , your arrival was nothing to do with Barbara Coleman going home . ’ |
| 14 | The men here are here because they broke the law . |
| 15 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 16 | Cecilia was about to let herself in when the young woman called Alice , who had been there when she heard the bomb go off , opened the door to her . |
| 17 | And yet she knew it had been there when she closed the book and put it back on the shelf . |
| 18 | It was lucky you were together when you found the bodies . |
| 19 | So that you 're , in other words you either , you 're , by having the money back in your hand you are then restored to the position you were in before you bought the goods in the first place . |
| 20 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 21 | He was expecting a visit from the young woman he had been wooing assiduously and he had carefully orchestrated the evening so that all his housemates were out and he had the house to himself . |
| 22 | ‘ We are pretty certain Watson just mugged because they were there and he saw the chance of easy pickings without much danger of violence being offered back to him , ’ said a policeman . |
| 23 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 24 | ‘ It 's only since we saw the video that we found out whose boot it was . |
| 25 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee . |
| 26 | It 's just that we thought the programme might benefit from a new face . |
| 27 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 28 | But that 's not where we saw the red squirrel . |
| 29 | funny it 's like cos they had the keyboard and that sort of rap beat it 's like , and all my kebabs are in salad cream , rap it on , stack it on , that 's my scene , gim me some kebab kebab gim me ages , wicked tune , I mean all these words |
| 30 | So where , as in Morgan , defendants claim that they believed the woman was consenting , because her husband ( who was present ) had told them that she enjoyed a struggle , their case is simply that they lacked the fault element required for the crime . |