Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 2 | It is now widely acknowledged ( except by saddoes ) that Dr Who stopped being good after Jon Pertwee in 1974 — but that makes 11 glorious years of top-class , home-spun cheap thrills in out space — a reign untouched by later , more sophist TV sci-fi . |
| 3 | And it 's time you stopped being afraid of life . ’ |
| 4 | The areas visited were comparable to Leicestershire and parts of Derbyshire . |
| 5 | Only the night she died , the bucket she used was full of oil , not water . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd been involved with fairs and circuses since the age of fourteen , when she 'd run off with a Wall of Death rider on his motorbike . |
| 7 | He 'd been involved with bands all those years and could play a bit of music but he never quite got the hang of the idea of written music . |
| 8 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 9 | They 'd been good to Mam , though , sending her money when they could . |
| 10 | I 'd been house-sitting for Nassim Nassim 's cousin Sunil in Leytonstone for a week now , which meant that the five-day house-warming party where all my so-called friends drop in to see how I 'm coping , how much booze I 've laid on and what the music centre 's like , had come to an end . |
| 11 | Ever since they 'd first become friends she 'd been obsessed with Shannon 's love-life , or rather the lack of it . |
| 12 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 13 | He was found down by the river this morning and he 'd been dead since midnight or before . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd been lucky to book one of the two wheelchair spaces with adjacent seats for my family for last Saturday 's final night of the spectacular Robin of Sherwood musical . |
| 15 | He 'd been full of hostility , she recalled , when he 'd said , ‘ How the hell , in the short time you 've been here , you 've earned the name Miss Frostbite beats me . ’ |
| 16 | Maybe I 'd been wrong about Bonanza after all . |
| 17 | I asked , wondering if they 'd been angry on behalf of Ban Bhāi because Chola and the other women had n't waited for his permission , or because they 'd cheated , sneaking out first and grabbing all the pine-needles at the edge of the forest without having to climb at all . |
| 18 | Yes , she 'd been worried about Nicolo 's intentions , but he 'd gone out of his way to tell her — to show her — that he was n't the least bit interested in her as a woman . |
| 19 | Both forests we studied are similar in structure , composition and site quality ( Table 1 and refs 14–16 ) . |
| 20 | While the Labour Government were anxious to preserve an image of political fairness and reasonable salary flexibility in order to attract the technocratic skills that they recognised were essential for success , they were none the less clear that the public corporations should not simply be the old gang operating ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 21 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |
| 22 | A survey by the Spastics Society during the 1987 general election found that half the polling stations surveyed were inaccessible for people with disabilities . |
| 23 | He was especially troubled by pain in his kidneys , which he believed was due to kidney stones ‘ occasioned by unsuitable diet in my youth ’ . |
| 24 | Both styles are well finished , a satin stain/varnish has been used to good effect , the eye is well placed high on the body and on all of the floats I received was free of varnish . |
| 25 | Moreover , the crude preparation obtained was devoid of exonuclease activities and could be used to accurately define the nature of the cleavage products . |
| 26 | These authors considered that the antiplatelet action observed was unrelated to effects on glycaemic control as the two effects were dissociated in time ( Poari et al , 1979 ) . |
| 27 | Lovell gave Coleridge food that night , but not shelter , and in the days that followed was responsible with Southey for introducing him to a city strong in religious dissent and political radicalism . |
| 28 | It also stated that public money had been used to fund two other black organizations , the Federal Independent Association ( FIDA ) , a conservative group strongly opposed to sanctions , and the Eagles , which anti-apartheid activists alleged was responsible for vigilante actions in the townships . |
| 29 | 193 the court held that , when exercising the power granted to them to define the detailed rules for the utilisation of their quotas , the member states could determine which vessels in their fishing fleets would be allowed to fish against their national quotas , provided that the criteria employed were compatible with Community law . |
| 30 | The house she loved was full of strangeness and hate . |