Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your Uncle Nathan has wanted her with him in Leeds ever since Christie planned to be married . |
| 2 | Technical Division confirmed that their view was that such income ceased to be relevant income . |
| 3 | Windley rose to be Chief Native Commissioner of Kenya in the mid-1950s and was one of the moving spirits of re-education . |
| 4 | THE Government was accused yesterday of concocting a fudged list to gloss over the real dangers of microwave ovens found to be faulty in its own tests . |
| 5 | ‘ The vast majority of cases found to be positive are due to household products which can be bought from the chemist and the player is then simply given a telling off . |
| 6 | The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 . |
| 7 | At first , Mrs Parvis pretended to be pleased to see Dot . |
| 8 | She and her father had visited many places of historical interest , including several castles , but the small castle perched on its rock promised to be special . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a load of bullshit ! ’ the culprit shouted before being strong-armed out of the door . |
| 10 | She took no notice , and I began to hate her , not because I was having to apologize — she looked so old and sad that I was genuinely sorry — but because she would n't listen and it was such a-terrible physical struggle for me to talk ; my mouth seemed to be full of some sickly , sticky stuff , like chewing-gum . |
| 11 | Well I 've er , I 've er fibre I 've a fibre underneath and a feather cos , when I had a fibre I do n't know why , but me ears seemed to be deaf every morning |
| 12 | His eyes seemed to be dark with emotion , and she wanted to say something , even apologise again , but he had turned away and started the car . |
| 13 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 14 | Er who ran bus services from Gala to Selkirk and Melrose and er we sold out to them because we , the other side of the business where the private car side seemed to be growing . |
| 15 | The heavy-lidded eyes were still half-open , the lips slightly parted ; in the flickering torchlight the figure seemed to be asleep . |
| 16 | Suddenly , the figure seemed to be aware of Jack 's presence and turned towards him , as if to ask what he wanted . |
| 17 | The large unit known as the syssel , a subdivision of the country broadly similar to the English shire , is in Jutland believed to be pre-Christian , although its function is something of an open question , as it is now best known in connection with later ecclesiastical organisation . |
| 18 | In Pahl 's well-known expression , local political research came to be concerned with ‘ Who gets the scarce resources and facilities ? |
| 19 | In fact , for a moment , the situation facing Millie seemed to be God-directed when , at seven o'clock , as soon as Ben had opened the gates , a Mrs Walton came hurrying in . |
| 20 | Most schools seemed to be satisfied that they were meeting the needs of pupils , at least to some extent ( see figure 2 ) . |
| 21 | Becky affected to be unconcerned . |
| 22 | Jagatan seemed to be asleep . |
| 23 | For once communication of information was brisk and free , all channels seemed to be open and listening to each other . |
| 24 | Always Poshekhonov seemed to be close to him . |
| 25 | Their assumption that this could be ignored , and the data assumed to be objective representations of crime and criminality , was to prove to be one of their greatest weaknesses , as we shall see in the next chapter . |
| 26 | But Bella seemed to be satisfied . |
| 27 | When sued , the defendant claimed to be liable only for the cost of the seed because of a clause in their contract to that effect . |
| 28 | Hoomey , in the next desk , was yawning , having sat up late to watch the horror film , and had a comic open on his desk which he was reading whenever his eyes happened to be open . |
| 29 | Shiona wriggled to be free of him . |
| 30 | Soon , however , restlessness and some undefined ambition began to be apparent . |