Example sentences of "[coord] [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 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 .
5 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 .
6 Suddenly , Rachel saw Tiger Balm Gardens and realised they were on Tai Hang Road .
7 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 .
8 He played the hard man and pretended he was beyond fear , but that was nonsense .
9 ‘ Anyway , a certain man appeared , and pretended he was in love with Miss Havisham .
10 Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ?
11 I looked at my watch and found it was after eleven o'clock , which meant nothing really .
12 They 're gunned up and fired up and told it 's for real .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 Brian , emerging from the bathroom , heard his wife talking and imagined she was with Camille , thus he was surprised to find her alone .
15 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 .
16 I am writing to convey how shocked and saddened I am at the news .
17 But Taylor 's staff checked with Downing Street — and discovered he was in no position to offer anything .
18 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 .
19 I saw flood-lit spaces , heard music and felt I was in another world , somewhere in Switzerland .
20 ‘ He was charming , ’ she lied , and felt it was worth it to see him look relieved .
21 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 .
22 Mike met his brother 's eyes and saw they were like steel .
23 I burst on to the pass from Jack Clarke , had a wee look and saw I was in the clear .
24 He looked at Catherine Crane 's feet and saw she was in a similar situation .
25 Then he remembered something and knew he was in duty bound to take that risk .
26 Undry was in her mind , shedding troubled surges of light through deep darkness ; what am I going to do ? she wondered , and knew it was beyond her to decide anything .
27 Granpa thought it could well have been a Saturday , felt it most likely the month had been January , was confident the year was 1900 , and knew it was in the reign of Queen Victoria .
28 Westmacott then saw two ‘ red noses ’ coming up and thought they were from his own flight , as he called his pilots to rendezvous over Takali , going down through cloud to wait for them .
29 I was sixteen and thought I was in love .
30 She took the call and said it was for me .
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