Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 2 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 3 | He fluctuated between varying combinations of the defence of Saudi Arabia , the restoration of the Kuwaiti government and state integrity , the key strategic American interest in the Gulf , the oil supply , freedom and international law , and the much hinted-at wholesale destruction of a ruler and a Middle Eastern power recently supported but now suddenly discovered to be evil . |
| 4 | It only needed to be true enough of the time . |
| 5 | The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator . |
| 6 | We 'd end up with 350 MPs who all wanted to be prime minister . |
| 7 | I only wanted to be kind to the Dust Baby . |
| 8 | He no longer asked to be relieved of his archbishopric . |
| 9 | To admit to being innocent of guile somehow smacked of being undesirable , immature , but far better that than be thought an actress . |
| 10 | At one point , early on , this kid was counting out money and saying something like , you have n't got a choice there and if you do n't like it you can shop around , when we said , in a voice I 'd never heard before , a voice that no longer pretended to be nice , a voice that expressed all the effort of pretending to be so nice for so long . |
| 11 | ‘ But I just tried to be patient , and one day everything just started to be okay again . |
| 12 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 13 | He 'd read the script and already seemed to be familiar with Joyce 's published material . |
| 14 | As with Gabby , we had n't known them long — almost unbelievably less than two years , but they already seemed to be old friends . |
| 15 | Why was it that everyone she 'd met lately seemed to be obsessed with star signs ? |
| 16 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 17 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 18 | ‘ I just happened to be interested , that 's all , ’ she replied . |
| 19 | ‘ But I just tried to be patient , and one day everything just started to be okay again . |
| 20 | John Galliano and Vivienne Westwood continued thankfully on their own merry way and , though both regularly rummage through the past , they somehow managed to be forward-looking and new . |
| 21 | Paula was not very clever with her needle but she soon learned to be careful so as not to incur the wrath of the seamstress . |
| 22 | Somehow it seemed degrading to seek work this way , but vets no longer had to be anonymous . |
| 23 | Since the Secret Committee on the Peasant Question no longer had to be secret it was renamed the " Main " Committee in January 1858 . |
| 24 | If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough . |
| 25 | I just had to be patient , it was one of those things . |
| 26 | Only time would tell now whether it would go without mishap I just had to be patient . |
| 27 | One just had to be manly about it . |
| 28 | The obvious response — of summoning in an exterminator team — just had to be wrong . |
| 29 | Conversation thus tended to be laconic and allusive and it sometimes scarcely seemed to possess a thread of connection between one remark and the next : this was however an illusion , seductive enough to a stranger ignorant of background , all the more so to a stranger not fully in command of the language . |
| 30 | Because on this occasion the fame seemed such a foregone conclusion , there was less talk than usual about its progress , which was a disappointment to those on our side who desperately wanted to be able to display modesty about their achievements . |