Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [subord] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fire had been lit before I came to the office . |
| 2 | " Father — is it possible — is it possible that Jennifer and me could be wed before I go with you ? " |
| 3 | ‘ He was fit to be tied when I separated from Hugh , and he seems to blame me for the whole thing . |
| 4 | Perhaps my hon. Friend will be reassured when I announce to the House that we will be laying tomorrow an order to ensure that , for all indictable offences , there will be the compulsory taking of evidence by tape recording in police stations . |
| 5 | Doubtless Hirondelle had already been blown up , just as my own boat would be butchered if I insisted on challenging this man . |
| 6 | This is one of my film articles which I mean it 's of the things that I 've sent of and I know it will be published because I belong to the Cinema Veterans cinema and television veterans and they have this quarterly magazine and almost certainly you know it will be published in there , there 's no |
| 7 | It has become apparent on some of the issues , some of the comments that we made that was if I could call it the you 'll know what we 're talking about and I do n't if we are talking about the there was there was a point somewhere where talked about ing an increase or short of journey time along the ring road and this has been taken as I understand to be that we are setting out an increase of speed er traffic on the sections of road to a junction and that 's totally in force and it was either . |
| 8 | This was where the offices of the English Department and several lecture-rooms were situated when I arrived in 1957 , twenty years after Philby . |
| 9 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 10 | I can not give over any of the powers that I , as a Member of Parliament , elected by the citizens of Aldridge-Brownhills — and each of us elected by our respective constituents — was given when I came to this Parliament . |
| 11 | No , I was told before I came on the course , you 're going on the course to learn to make maximum use out of it , you 're not going on an almighty second holiday and |
| 12 | I have to report , though , that it was here my own trust in the French as the most obdurately literate of all nations was dented when I went into a bookshop and asked if they had a copy of the Song of Roland . |