Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | prior to the Daily Telegraph article in January nineteen eighty eight , had or or had they been in the habit of spending large amounts of money on national publicity ? |
| 2 | Or had it been between them , or only in her own highly tuned emotions ? |
| 3 | But whether they 've been opened or closed it 's like a white elephant , I mean lovely place , look . |
| 4 | The scene that confronted her was like a tableau from a waxworks , she thought with faint hysteria as she walked in . |
| 5 | Saul of Tarsus after his Damascus road experience spent three days in fasting and prayer ; that showed he was in the receptive mood which invited the Spirit to come . |
| 6 | In the years that followed I was to be in that lovely apartment many times visiting Jessica and Celia , who served the most delicious toasted bacon sandwiches and coffee that I have ever tasted . |
| 7 | In the upland region an old-established pastoral economy and the local industry that supported it was in sharp decline . |
| 8 | But the scene that awaited them was worth the walk . |
| 9 | In America , with the Harveys , it somehow had not mattered ; nor had they been in the least concerned about how he had been raised , judging him for what he was now . |
| 10 | The USSR , as before , remained ready to further its own interests wherever it could , and those interests were not always in agreement with those of Western governments — nor had they been in tsarist times . |
| 11 | The second thing that struck her was on a different plane , but was another restriction . |
| 12 | The applause that greeted them was like a thunder clap and went on for so long that the Girls could not hear the music and had to count under their breath to synchronize their kicks . |
| 13 | Suddenly , Rachel saw Tiger Balm Gardens and realised they were on Tai Hang Road . |
| 14 | I 'll try to spare you that , but I guess it 's about time I came clean and admitted it 's by no means a one-man show . |
| 15 | He played the hard man and pretended he was beyond fear , but that was nonsense . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , a certain man appeared , and pretended he was in love with Miss Havisham . |
| 17 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 18 | I looked at my watch and found it was after eleven o'clock , which meant nothing really . |
| 19 | They 're gunned up and fired up and told it 's for real . |
| 20 | ‘ It 'd be a very odd individual who , when telephoned by his girlfriend and advised he was to be a father , failed to follow up on it , ’ Vitor growled , starting to walk again . |
| 21 | Brian , emerging from the bathroom , heard his wife talking and imagined she was with Camille , thus he was surprised to find her alone . |
| 22 | Allchin began by admitting that Microsoft has had a problem communicating its approach to object technology and claimed he was on the panel to put the record straight : there are objects in Windows NT because there is an object management system in the kernel — its simply not exposed to users . |
| 23 | I am writing to convey how shocked and saddened I am at the news . |
| 24 | But Taylor 's staff checked with Downing Street — and discovered he was in no position to offer anything . |
| 25 | When she 'd lain awake in the night realizing how upset and worried she was by Timothy Gedge 's visit , she 'd thought the one thing she would n't be able to do was Meals on Wheels with Miss Poraway . |
| 26 | I saw flood-lit spaces , heard music and felt I was in another world , somewhere in Switzerland . |
| 27 | ‘ He was charming , ’ she lied , and felt it was worth it to see him look relieved . |
| 28 | Barrow , the former Liphook all-rounder , wants to continue playing Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire and felt it was in his interests to join a division one side . |
| 29 | Mike met his brother 's eyes and saw they were like steel . |
| 30 | I burst on to the pass from Jack Clarke , had a wee look and saw I was in the clear . |