Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I presume the 2 disallowed were nt in that figure ? |
| 2 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 3 | However , the general principle of liability for the acts of others to which my hon. and learned Friend referred is not at all out of line with the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 4 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 5 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 6 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 7 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 8 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 9 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 10 | In come the Estonians , ’ Harold Macmillan is said to have remarked after one of Margaret Thatcher 's early cabinet reshuffles , and the men to whom the Prime Minister turned were certainly outside this small genetic pool . |
| 11 | He hated the music they were playing Highland stuff , mostly — he hated being here in this dull , wet town , with these dull people listening to their dull music at their dull wedding . |
| 12 | It was good , everybody had told me that erm , you know , you did n't get very much money when you left school , about ten shillings and to offer me fifteen shillings I thought was out of this world , so erm |
| 13 | ‘ I must confess , the news it contained was not at all what I had been expecting . |
| 14 | But she was an orphan , and the uncle and aunt with whom she lived were not at all well off . |
| 15 | The seats we now occupied were directly behind those of the complaining woman and her companions . |
| 16 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 17 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 18 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 19 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 20 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 21 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 22 | Then he held out his arms and she went into them , laughing , wiping out the days they had been apart in that one eager meeting . |
| 23 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 24 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 25 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 26 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 27 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |
| 28 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 29 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 30 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |