Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they could still be summoned to appear in court to answer the allegations of their creditor , to admit or give good reasons for disclaiming them — if the sum involved was less than £5,000 in a county court , if more in the High Court . |
| 2 | He said he 'd been please because his own jockey hated the horse . ’ |
| 3 | Well I says to your mother one time when we 'd been downtown and your passing through |
| 4 | He 'd been there when the man Daniel had been killed . |
| 5 | that was the second summer I 'd been there when you used to come down , do n't you be silly , cos he said to me , you remember Roy do n't you and I said yeah , and he use to er , like if he used to come back without me , |
| 6 | She 'd been there and come back , and been again . |
| 7 | That she 'd been really and truly in love and could n't go on . |
| 8 | It 'd been more than half a year since the Long Drive , and she 'd never taken much notice of mechanical things , but she could n't help thinking the old lorry cab had been a lot less crowded . |
| 9 | The men at the headman 's house decided , on behalf of the village , that every dog that had been out in the night , possibly taking part in the fight and helping bring down the rabid dog , would have to be killed : and all bitches on heat , whether they 'd been inside or out , must also be killed . |
| 10 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 11 | The measures adopted were largely as had been approved by the outgoing Cabinet on June 8 , in response to the assassination of Judge Giovanni Falcone [ see pp. 38895-96 ; 38978 ] . |
| 12 | Early encashment values are not guaranteed and may result in the amount received being less than the original investment ( please refer to the table below ) . |
| 13 | The timing of debates which took place in the House of Commons on proposals which the European Legislation Committee advised were legally or politically important was dependent on the Government . |
| 14 | And there would be a funeral when the boat came and I mean when the boat came is just when the boat came . |
| 15 | Wherever we had been in the Celebes lowlands people would call out to us , " Hello , mister ! " — but in Bira it was always " Hello , Inggeriss ! " which we assumed was simply because news of our true nationality had got around . |
| 16 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |
| 17 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 18 | Pentagon figures for Panamanians killed during the invasion and the fighting that followed is less than 300 . |
| 19 | The Christian mind which he revered was then and ever after the mind of William Temple , whom Hoskyns thought to be able but superficial . |
| 20 | The familiar Twelfth Night everyone knew and loved was just that along with a fine performance by the English Shakespeare Company . |
| 21 | But er we shall be without him for the next fortnight erm so somebody 'll have to come in and score a few goals for us but often you know , you discover things that erm you never knew were there when you have to fill in gaps that have suddenly arisen . |
| 22 | Anyone using the double-paddle of these canoes for the first time finds his ( or her ) chest expanded in a strain on shoulder muscles he never knew were there until he started canoeing . |
| 23 | The closeness she felt was more than the joining of their bodies ; it was all-encompassing , and shared , for in taking her he had also given himself . |
| 24 | What he saw was more or less what he 'd expected ; lots of business , big crowds full of stupid people who were n't watching the traffic , every other window steamed-up and hung with a brace of Peking duck . |
| 25 | Every animal Endill knew was there and others he did not recognise . |
| 26 | The last time I won was here and I had that on my mind most of the week . |
| 27 | And the few shillings earned was more than welcome in those hard days . |
| 28 | Hamilton played well , Palace won 2–1 and his claim for a first team place had been properly and completely justified . |
| 29 | Their case is that if they had been properly and correctly advised as they were entitled to be under the contract , they would not have proceeded to exchange or to completion . |
| 30 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |