Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were testing me out , to see if — if I 'd stopped being timid with men , is n't that it ? ’ |
| 2 | By the time my watch said 20.30 I 'd stopped being angry — I was terrified . |
| 3 | The future she 'd visualized was silly , puppies and a row of kennels and being alone . |
| 4 | So i i it sits side by side with the erm items that we 'd decided are important for us to achieve our visions . |
| 5 | The worst part lay in facing up to the fact that some of the things he 'd said were true , much as she might try to deny it . |
| 6 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 7 | What he 'd done was wrong , but he was her brother . |
| 8 | Eleanor immediately pointed out that he had n't exactly held his wife , who was thoroughly unfaithful if half the tales he 'd told were true . |
| 9 | I asked if I could wait for Frankie but Mum , who I 'd thought was asleep , piped up at that . |
| 10 | The second-hand necklace he 'd thought was wrong was suddenly right . |
| 11 | The open-topped Suzuki jeep she 'd hired was easy to drive and the breeze whipping through her hair helped to clear her head . |
| 12 | He 'd stepped out of the house at noon believing the woman he 'd left was devoted to him , and come home five hours later to find the house as it was now . |
| 13 | The stories of how they got involved are typical . |
| 14 | Perhaps more significantly I was to find out that many Heads and teachers alike believed in the importance of creative experience for children , and so the way schools had developed was genuine , well founded and not a half-baked ill-digested educational " gimmick " . |
| 15 | In a rage of despair , Nicholas flung open the doors to the street and he was there , running towards him , and the clamour he had heard was real , and louder than he would have thought possible . |
| 16 | Meehan lost no time in seeking him out and asking him if what he had heard was true . |
| 17 | She wondered for a moment whether he had stopped being unfaithful . |
| 18 | He had enjoyed being able to tell Sunil all about it at lunch , though he had been a little worried by the way Sunil had then gazed at Gooseneck throughout the meal with evident hero-worship . |
| 19 | Scalfaro had succeeded was Interior Minister in 1983-87 , and was known as a committed Catholic and anti-communist . |
| 20 | In 1960 , the Acton Society Trust had reported being unaware of any company which had a programme of preparation for retirement . |
| 21 | It was announced on April 5 that Japan had further agreed to revise , within one year , certain laws on the retail sector which the USA had claimed were monopolistic in character . |
| 22 | It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust . |
| 23 | What Lord Denning 's Spectator interview in his dotage had revealed was unguarded language . |
| 24 | What she had seen was indecent and terrifying , and she could tell her fear to nobody . |
| 25 | I had never believed in ghosts but what I had seen was unaccountable . |
| 26 | Most of the houses he had seen were drab , workmen 's dwellings , but here on the periphery was an attractive tree-lined road which bespoke money , and plenty of it . |
| 27 | The difference was that although the three ploughs were alleged to have been laid up , ‘ the houses are up to now standing and occupied ’ ; precisely what Greville had done is obscure , but whatever it was it had undoubtedly achieved a dramatic increase in productivity without uprooting the tenants . |
| 28 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 29 | To that extent , what she had done was understandable . |
| 30 | When Laura complained at breaktime that Peter had done the same again , pushing her towards the broken tiles which had recently been blown off the junior hall roof , Janice felt that Peter needed to be shown that what he had done was dangerous and unacceptable . |