Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 2 | It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle . |
| 3 | Six years ago the only computer I 'd used was some horrid games machine a girlfriend had once become obsessed with . |
| 4 | She was no raving beauty , did n't have a model-like figure — all she 'd had was some money . |
| 5 | The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back . |
| 6 | What Holmes and Rahe failed to recognise is that major life events are not what stress most of us most of the time . |
| 7 | But the point that Anna failed to grasp was that without the money it would never have occurred to him to marry her . |
| 8 | It is not surprising , therefore , that not only did he consider that he alone would set the pace , but also that the pace he chose to set was that of a dilatory gastropod . |
| 9 | Creeping up on one , all they managed to steal was some food . |
| 10 | Their three tries , all unconverted , looked to have been enough to win them the game . |
| 11 | Where you went skiing is this side of Austria , but Vienna is about two hundred and two hundred and fifty miles further on across Austria , very close to erm Czechoslovakia and erm Yugoslavia . |
| 12 | All I did know was that Scamp took a few steps forward into the street while stuffing home fresh cartridges . |
| 13 | One business outing I did attend was that of the Association of Independent Railways ( AIR ) board . |
| 14 | The statue , nearly 24 metres high on a plinth itself 12 metres high , has the large ears and nose that appeared to have been such prominent features of the great man . |
| 15 | Navjuvanov was dismissed , accused of corruption , and it appeared to have been this event which sparked off the rallies outside the parliament building in Shahidan ( " Martyrs ' " ) Square . |
| 16 | Going ahead and it started with annual wage increases because the wage increases that you did get were all about three , four or five percent at the time . |
| 17 | One film part that Crawford did accept was that of the White Rabbit in Alice 's Adventures In Wonderland , which he made by day at Pinewood Studios during the stage run of No Sex , Please . |
| 18 | All I did say is that ca n't see us out here . |
| 19 | What he did say was that Rabbit has no intention of setting up wholly-owned subsidiaries in any country , because of its commitment now to its previously neglected distribution partners . |
| 20 | The story I had heard was that , instead of John Philip Sousa being the great all-American bandmaster he was really an Englishman , born in Gosport , Hants . |
| 21 | Moreover , the material upon which he had to work was that of the early stages of industrial capitalism and of the working-class political movement , so that in any case it would be essential to review his theory in the light of subsequent historical experience . |
| 22 | He told us that as a young man he had joined the Fire Service in which his father was a Lieutenant , and the first fire he had attended was this crash . |
| 23 | But what she had to remember was that , however convincing he might sound on details , there was a hard core of fact that even Luke Hunter could never explain away . |
| 24 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 25 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 26 | What had occurred was this . |
| 27 | One of the most important questions they had to consider was that of public health , including housing . |
| 28 | In other words what had happened is that legal doctrine had drawn upon conflicting conceptions of the company to legitimate limited liability and to endorse the power conferred upon directors to manage the company . |
| 29 | What had happened was that , having marched in straight lines over open flat ground for a while , their paths had taken them close to a pebble . |
| 30 | What had happened was that Syl had , one evening , flushed with wine , remarked that he thought it would be a good idea if we got married . |