Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If all the blokes I knew were like you then I 'd be better off with another girl , would n't I ? ’ she said scornfully . |
| 2 | The saddest story I heard was of a sheriff officer going to a door to collect items that were to be sold at auction . |
| 3 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 4 | The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE . |
| 5 | because Youth and Carniki I knew are in the same building , which is why we wanted to see you |
| 6 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 7 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 8 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 9 | and I put them in , and I look in my dictionary , they 're not there of course , cos my dictionary I had is from nineteen forty six |
| 10 | I have looked up my own record over the past six months , and I find that the only courthouse whose closure I approved was in Leicestershire and was precisely 500 yd from a new courthouse costing £8 million which we had erected to take its place . |
| 11 | and it being full of , of animals , most of them nasty animals , that would frighten you , like snakes and squirrels , I do n't know why squirrels , and , and like I had a picture in my mind , I ca n't remember whether it was the swimming baths I 'd been to , or whatever , like you know how they , quite often they have little ramps , or maybe they do n't , but the ones I 'd been to had ramps , stairs going up to them or whatever , |
| 12 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 13 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 14 | The piece I did is on one side , and on the other is a piece by The Kronos Quartet , called Different Trains . ’ |
| 15 | The figure I gave was on erm sites which were allocated |
| 16 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 17 | I suggested that the latter point could be explained in part by reference to the change in the social composition of the electorate which had been in progress over the '60s . |
| 18 | A CLASSIC Rolls-Royce limousine which had been in the same Scottish family for 60 years made £21,275 at a Sotheby 's weekend car sale at the Royal Air Force museum , Hendon , North London . |
| 19 | The USA reacted angrily to the attack and threatened to call off talks with the PLO which had been under way since late 1987 . |
| 20 | Parliament on June 12 , 1991 , approved a constitutional amendment to allow female members of the royal family to succeed to the throne , thus overturning the male-only succession which had been in place since Belgian independence . |
| 21 | With Fisher 's appointment as President of the Board ( having a seat in the Cabinet ) came an undertaking that money would be made available for such post-war reconstruction ; and the policy itself was enshrined in legislation to enable the kind of educational expansion within the continuing and adult sectors which had been at the forefront of the Newbolt Committee 's deliberations.5 In practice , however , such expansion was never enacted , despite the ever-increasing reliance of the universities upon state funds ( by 1931 they were receiving slightly over half their income from this source ) , |
| 22 | The president of Daiwa Securities , Japan 's second-largest securities company , resigned on March 11 in connection with a stock scandal which threatened to reignite the controversy over the relationship between brokers and major clients which had been at the root of a series of scandals in mid-1991 [ see pp. 38292 ; 38342-42 ] . |
| 23 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 24 | Early the following morning a British soldier who had been in the orphanage was admitted to the hospital suffering from a high fever , so the carabinieri still had one English prisoner to guard . |
| 25 | At a four-day show trial in May 1963 Wynne received an eight-year prison sentence but in April 1964 was conveniently exchanged for Konon Molody , or ‘ Gordon Lonsdale ’ , the professional KGB spy and member of the Portland spy ring who had been in prison with George Blake . |
| 26 | The Foreign Minister was Nguyen Tuong Tam who had been in south China but not as an associate of Ho Chi Minh ( he fled from Hanoi in June 1946 ) . |
| 27 | A Roman Catholic priest who had been in charge of the church 's Beirut aid mission to orphans and refugees in the Middle East while Coleman was out there , Msgr Esseff had returned to the US to become director of the pontifical Mission Aid Societies , responsible for Catholic aid and refugee work globally . |
| 28 | Another departure was that of Ted Trimmer , half-brother of Deborah Kerr , one more ex-Bristol journalist who had been with TWW more or less since the start . |
| 29 | The 13 candidates included President Mathieu Kerekou , an avowed Marxist who had been in power since his military coup of 1972 , and his Prime Minister , Nicéphore Soglo , a former World Bank official . |
| 30 | In Cairo , Stirling had recruited Bob Melot , a Belgian who had been in business in Egypt before the war . |