Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [noun] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half my body has been cut away by the surgeon 's knife . |
| 2 | Half their supplies had been lost crossing the river including all the beer and tobacco . |
| 3 | Taking only the period in which this book has been written , and limiting the location to the UK , there have been numerous similar press-provoked scandals in which the homosexual has kept turning up where he or she should not , especially at the ‘ respectable ’ centre of things : in MI5 , the Houses of Parliament , as parliamentary candidate , schoolteacher , council employee , prison chaplain , vicar , guard to the Queen Mother , film star , circuit judge , to cite only some ( and some whose lives have been destroyed by homophobic media harassment ) . |
| 4 | Was this what Edward had been waiting for ? |
| 5 | ‘ Well , you see , what with one thing and another our coinage has been somewhat watered , over the years . |
| 6 | All you can do is give them a bit of comfort in that their letters have been read . |
| 7 | Anyway , she seemed to cheer up a bit listening to their trite old remarks about it coming to everybody , and after that her mother had been all right and seemed to accept it . |
| 8 | All my life has been work and each other . ’ |
| 9 | Now I know that all my life has been a flight |
| 10 | ‘ Autumn is my season , twilight is my hour and all my life has been one chain of related twilights ’ , he has written . |
| 11 | The first thing I did was tell Harvey that the eggs and all my baggage had been stolen at the airport , but Harvey Newbegin was in one of his rich-busy-man moods and went bustling around making tutting noises for a couple of days . |
| 12 | When I was a kid all my teachers had been classified as old . |
| 13 | All my friends had been transformed , their faces shone , they could n't move , while I just rolled my tie up and down and counted the bars on the radiator . |
| 14 | Me and all my friends had been having this really great scuttle . |
| 15 | ‘ The news of my call-up has slowly filtered through , but all my friends have been really good about it . ’ |
| 16 | All my friends have been asking me this since I came back from my month in Australia . |
| 17 | I 've only done one domestic story in 3 years ; all my work has been international , political . |
| 18 | All my work has been involved with estates where game birds were the prime consideration . |
| 19 | But all my husband said was : ‘ How much will it cost ? ’ |
| 20 | And a absolutely finally , all my comments have been related to the area of Richmondshire outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park . |
| 21 | ‘ The constant worry all my staff have is of being transferred . ’ |
| 22 | There was an ache in my middle as if a rock was lodged in the place where all my habits had been — my going-to-bed routine of always brushing my teeth last thing of all so that my mouth felt glowing fresh before I curled up under my duvet and drifted off into sleep . |
| 23 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 24 | The Orkney parents were left so uninformed , they believed that all their rights had been removed . |
| 25 | When parliament heard the news of Crécy the commons ‘ thanked God for the great victory He had given their king and they said that all their money had been well spent ’ . |
| 26 | By the time it came out , in any case , all their lives had been irrevocably altered by the progress of world events . |
| 27 | With this type of traffic came the added danger of drugs and/or other contraband brought in to finance themselves , although this combination of smuggling was not common , probably because all their cash had been paid to the organisers of the run . |
| 28 | One of England 's big problems recently is that they have n't put opposing teams under pressure for any length of time , so all their attacking has been spasmodic . |
| 29 | All their recipes had been borrowed — by their own admission — from earlier works and their style is charmless . |
| 30 | All her feelings had been for Gerry , with the coal-pitted hands , who had never harmed a soul . |