Example sentences of "[vb past] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives say they now believe the three man involved were all travellers … and were staying at various sites like this around Milton Keynes . |
| 2 | To recapitulate : what Schopenhauer demonstrated is that music differs in character and origin from the other arts because they represent phenomena , while music represents metaphysical reality directly . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the sort of project to which he just referred is another example of where a national lottery could be of great assistance ? |
| 4 | Judge John Curran QC said the weapon used was some form of cap-firing pistol . |
| 5 | I need some le er the , I wanted a carton of live yoghurt I do n't think the live yoghurt I used was any good because , for a start it was fruit flavoured , no it was n't , it was natural , but it said mild flavoured |
| 6 | I do n't think the live yoghurt I used was any good because , for a start it was fruit flavoured , no it was n't it was natural , but it said mild flavoured and I do n't think it was the proper like the Greek style really live yoghurt that would have started all the fungus growing on it . |
| 7 | But what 's more serious is that one of the phrases that he used was more people are going to suffer in cover . |
| 8 | One of the first things he found was that golf is not something that can be watched that closely . |
| 9 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 10 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 11 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 12 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 13 | There 'd been another quake at 4am , a 6.5 shock . |
| 14 | Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there . |
| 15 | Well out of order , the thing is if that 'd been , if that 'd been another troop trying to do it to him , there would of been , there would of been shit |
| 16 | In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest . |
| 17 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 18 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 19 | And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes . |
| 20 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 21 | ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm — |
| 22 | There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ? |
| 23 | There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons . |
| 24 | Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about . |
| 25 | There 'd been some trouble at The Randolph . |
| 26 | Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it . |
| 27 | No , not at all , no I if there 'd been any doubt then I would n't have played , but erm no doubt at all . |
| 28 | If there 'd been any evidence to link the death to anyone connected with the Jonquil the police would have found it by now . |
| 29 | Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy . |
| 30 | Tell him that if there 'd been any chemistry between us at all , I would have married you years ago and if he had any bloody sense he 'd do it now — in fact , forget it , I 'll tell him myself . ’ |