Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to think that if Freud were alive today , he would have said the same thing , of course when Freud wrote this book in nineteen twenty one er there was no such thing as group psychotherapy it had n't been invented yet , it was to become very much after World War Two but partly existed before and perhaps it 's past its peak now , but erm it did become very much a after World War Two and the point I made was and this is really wh wh what Heather ha h has just said , that if you take Freud 's book on , on group seriously , how can you do group psychoanalysis ? |
| 2 | I 'm sure you did n't order Lee and his men to find out where I 'd been and who I had seen . |
| 3 | When I got home I told everybody where I 'd been and what I 'd done : my 63-year-old father , my three sisters , my nephews , my friends , the men and women in my local pub and my colleagues at the bank . |
| 4 | I 'd been to work all day and I 'd been and been running sheets off all night . |
| 5 | I did n't get difficult when I drank but I often could n't remember where I 'd been or what I 'd done or even how I 'd got back home . |
| 6 | The first yard took all the effort I could manage , creeping a toe 's length at a time , my rubber soles slipping on the loose stones , as the wheelbarrow pushed me back to where I had been and we fell over . |
| 7 | I soon realised that not everyone was as naive as I had been and I fell out with Kate and Alison . |
| 8 | We want to know the lot , where you 'd been and what time you left him . ’ |
| 9 | She was unlike the girl she 'd been or the women he 'd known since ; she had a rare energy , and it was good to be near . |
| 10 | If she could only remember where she 'd been and how much she 's enjoying it while she 's actually doing it . |
| 11 | Nenna 's children neither showed any interest in where she had been nor in why she did not come back until next morning . |
| 12 | Although Grant was the expert of the group , they both knew enough to realise that the equipment stacked around was sophisticated , and far too much for Titron if she had been but an ordinary container ship . |
| 13 | She recovered herself , grateful that he had either not noticed how jumpy she had been or was willing to pretend he had not . |
| 14 | Grunte had not the faintest idea whether she had been or not , but the invitation seemed genuine enough . |
| 15 | Yes , Dragonfly Moonchild she had been and loved the summer-child in her . |
| 16 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 17 | Anna was full of prattle about where she had been and what she had done . |
| 18 | Individual tales of how efficient she had been and how much she had helped members abounded . |
| 19 | Searching through her mind the only emotions she could recreate from that time were a dizzying pleasure that someone as sophisticated , cosmopolitan , successful and confident as Doctor Anthony Gillingham should appear to want anyone as dull and provincial as she had been and a kind of a triumph that she could present Comfort with Anthony 's declaration of love . |
| 20 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 21 | They 'd never know that we 'd been and gone . |
| 22 | Did we talk about where we 'd been and what we 'd done , what we 'd seen and what had happened ? |
| 23 | When he finally left the bikes , he ambled down to the stream just where we had been and sat in the water to cool off . |
| 24 | They 'd been and looked at a few and there , |
| 25 | She was amazed to realise now just how detailed her dream of him had been and annoyed that he could make her feel so uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to last night . |
| 26 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 27 | It is only against this background that one can begin now to understand the behaviour of Hollywood and Broadway , of the star names who confessed so eagerly and abjectly to their previous sins and were meat and drink to the H.U.A.C. Like reformed alcoholics , they could not wait to let the world know how misguided they had been and who had led them astray . |
| 28 | It seemed that they should stop and follow the sight of the two young boys , but it was too late they had been and they had gone and now only a disturbance was left behind . |
| 29 | My friend wanted to encourage them to come back , so we put the bales back where they had been and cut a suitable owl-sized hole in the wall . |
| 30 | In 1991 Wessex entertained the suspicion that they had been and were being swindled by Abbey and in particular by Mr. Tully and certain employees of Wessex and Abbey and others . |