Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other companies have run numbers on what USL would be worth and found it hard to justify more than $200m . |
| 2 | I debated with myself whether it was right to have lunch with an aristocrat but I was also very curious to see what lunch with him would be like and accepted the invitation . |
| 3 | He realized now what solitary confinement must be like and wondered how people could survive months , even years of it . |
| 4 | Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs . |
| 5 | When she explained what the kidnappers were after and asked if he had any idea where or what the document might be , his reply was predictably negative . |
| 6 | She pinned old movie stills to the black beams so that the guests could play at guessing what they were from and gazed for too long at a film-still of Peter Finch and a male lover , pondering the nature of sexual passion . |
| 7 | We have been unable to discover what all this apparatus is for and wondered if you might be able to shed some light on the matter ? |
| 8 | Och , she is , she 's with but did you remember Christmas ? |
| 9 | Miss Sherwin said she found out the stall had been sold for below the price she thought it was worth and felt ‘ ripped off ’ . |