Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what made me laugh was this police woman saying , it annoys me , if you have a drink you should n't drive , and I thought to myself and I bet |
| 2 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 3 | M. What do you think I 've been these last two months ? |
| 4 | I do however think I have been able to help with the emotional problems of the artists here , especially the big dilemma of whether to have kids or not . |
| 5 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 6 | I trust I have been able to dilute any misgivings that my letter may have stirred . |
| 7 | It was by placing racism and heterosexism , along with sexism , at the centre of my training work that helped me stop being nervous about challenging heterosexism . |
| 8 | A debt you did n't know you had was best not argued with . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd been married , ’ he said , in a low voice . |
| 10 | At Usher she had been top dog . |
| 11 | I expect she 's been bored lately . ’ |
| 12 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 13 | They say she 's been able to transplant a gorilla 's brain into a human body , or maybe a human brain into a gorilla 's body . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You say you have been free of pain for nearly two years ? ’ he said , when he had finished . |
| 15 | I mean , basically building societies today are saying , well there 's your money , all we want you to say is that in twenty five years time or earlier , you 'll be able to pay us back . |
| 16 | Touche Ross , the receivers for Scarborough 's troubled Royal Hotel , say there has been keen interest from potential buyers and negotiations should start soon . |
| 17 | ‘ Now they say there has been secret dumping of waste from the submarines and nuclear icebreakers . |
| 18 | Although he said he could not release any details about the inquiry 's scope , in general , if the CRE found there had been unlawful practices it would issue a ‘ non-discrimination notice ’ listing the changes to working methods a respondent must make . |
| 19 | Although he said he could not release any details about the inquiry 's scope , in general , if the CRE found there had been unlawful practices it would issue a ‘ non-discrimination notice ’ listing the changes to working methods a respondent must make . |
| 20 | Not that you 'd know they 'd been most days . |
| 21 | ‘ Grown-ups do n't mind being nasty to children but they do n't like other grown-ups to know they 've been nasty . ’ |
| 22 | Turn your back they 're talking to you say they 've been nasty and then they come back and talk to you . |
| 23 | They say they have been innocent victims in a crime for which the law says they must also be punished . |
| 24 | because I think that the the normally he , he has it done are greater . |
| 25 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
| 26 | But in Harding v Price [ 1948 ] 1 All ER 283 it was held that if the driver did not know he had been involved in an accident the section did not apply . |
| 27 | Charles Henstock , whose belief in an after-life was absolute , had never been able to persuade his old friend to share his convictions , and he had once told Donald , after an amicable exchange of views on the subject , that he considered the doctor to be the finest unbeliever he had been privileged to meet . |
| 28 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 29 | In The Times Higher Education Supplement David Hencke reported that many college and polytechnic directors believed that universities ‘ are relaxing their validation standards to enable former colleges of education to start new arts and science degrees ’ , and quoted Edwin Kerr as being confident that colleges succeeding with CNAA validation would consider it to have been worthwhile . |
| 30 | It also emerged that Keith hated his nursery teacher to know he had been naughty and that he did not like any form of physical restraint . |