Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What particularly concerned me was their feeling that Balbinder seemed to understand and respond better in Punjabi . |
| 2 | However , in light of what has been said earlier , it should not be thought that data materials , to call them that , are always restricted to one study , or that the study which originally produced them is their only home . |
| 3 | I pretended I was someone else because when I 'm vibing with someone about other people 's records , I can pull it off . |
| 4 | This was a warning to the adventurous Arab in the desert , if you did force-land and you suddenly found you were his prisoner , and in several dialects of Arabic . |
| 5 | The Maidens were living on a fifty-eight foot boat with twelve people aboard , wherever they moved there was somebody else . |
| 6 | All she found there were her hands , big blue veins on the backs of them , not pretty at all . |
| 7 | ‘ When I went out to look at replacements , I found there were plenty of quality players available looking for work . |
| 8 | Oh you were , you were asked , somebody , I do n't know how it came about but erm if you found there was something going you went to do it . |
| 9 | But he found there was nothing academic about dealing with people and with the unions , because ‘ established institutions have their dogmas and their attitudes are frozen rigid . ’ |
| 10 | Genuine enough , he pulled your arms out for half the race until you asked him to quicken , when you found there was nothing in the tank . |
| 11 | Taking her sister 's hand , she found there was nothing else for it , but she must press to the point . |
| 12 | Anyway , she hit the hedge which is only about an inch thick and found there was nothing this side . |
| 13 | And whilst the advice was aimed at women , the few men who attended found there was plenty on offer for them . |
| 14 | Reaching for a glass of water I found there was none . |
| 15 | And where would the All that the families you mentioned there were they all port families ? |
| 16 | Another thing that drew her was what was called the ‘ power house ’ . |
| 17 | But once I have the thing and make it available , and say here is the gift that I promised it 's yours , it 's available , then , all you have to do is come and take it . |
| 18 | Is he aware that the right hon. Gentleman who so described it was none other than the Leader of the Opposition ? |
| 19 | Though he never idealised it or pretended it was anything but ‘ the rude rags of nature ’ , he saw things in it to which Crabbe was completely blind or hostile , and he felt their loss when change and ‘ improvement ’ came : |
| 20 | On the amendment side I am reluctant it does infringe on a local democracy but I agree with the Liberal Democrats , it 's a way forward and it 's a responsibility of all of us I I agree with Roger when he mentioned that Professor mentioned that this is the Labour party like usually always mentioned it is your budget when the budget is approved it is the whole county council budget every member should be responsible for it . |
| 21 | PC TONY Spong arrested a man at a burgled petrol station — and found it was his brother . |
| 22 | Oh course I can Erm there was a game that we called er Tin Lurky You probably wo n't well you never hear that expression now and er we used to get this old t any tin can and er you somebody would kick it you see and er the one that was sort of one used to have to fur and fetch this tin an bring it back again and then was should all hide , sounds a daft silly game , I know , but this one had to find us and the first one he found it was his turn next to fetch the tin and then find us again . |
| 23 | To make matters even more wretched than they already were , Celia cried both day and night and because of Liza 's deepening depression Harriet found it was she who was forced to bear the brunt of this , so much so that after a while she simply swept up baby and cot and took them into her own bedroom . |
| 24 | Twice , with a thump , she spotted him , in the set of a man 's shoulders , the tilt of a head , a patch of uniform , then found it was someone else . |
| 25 | To my annoyance , I found it was my turn to flush . |
| 26 | They stopped him and asked which was his mother , but the King 's son said , " You let him alone . |
| 27 | He spoke in a voice that he told me was his Courtroom voice . |
| 28 | Women would come up to me very unhappy about how I walked out on my children they REALLY believed I was their mother . |
| 29 | We wasted days and days dancing in the Pink Pussy Club , yawning at Fat Mattress at the Croydon Greyhound , ogling strippers on Sunday mornings in a pub , sleeping through Godard and Antonioni films , and enjoying the fighting at Millwall Football Ground , where I forced Changez to wear a bobble-hat over his face in case the lads saw he was a Paki and imagined I was one too . |
| 30 | Ellen had played Monday night , her individuals down at open then she played who 's what ? |