Example sentences of "john [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | John adored being with his grandchildren . |
| 2 | Jazzman Dexter Gordon in his final role as the awakened musician/dreamer Rolando proves he could have not one but two brilliant careers , old stage trouper Gloria Harper gives her awakened mad flapper full flight and John Heard is a rock of cynicism as the hard bitten hospital administrator . |
| 3 | Shand is not unlike John Heard 's crippled alcoholic in Cutter 's Way , the year 's other stand-out movie , raging against the dying light , fulminating at forces beyond his control . |
| 4 | Many grammatical processes involving re-ordering of constituents are ruled out for semantic reasons , particularly those whose semantic function is to highlight a specific semantic constituent : thus , What John pulled was his sister 's leg has no idiomatic reading , whereas What John did was pull his sister 's leg , which leaves the idiom ‘ physically ’ intact , has . |
| 5 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 6 | What John did was eat fish and chips . |
| 7 | Many grammatical processes involving re-ordering of constituents are ruled out for semantic reasons , particularly those whose semantic function is to highlight a specific semantic constituent : thus , What John pulled was his sister 's leg has no idiomatic reading , whereas What John did was pull his sister 's leg , which leaves the idiom ‘ physically ’ intact , has . |
| 8 | Uncle John had been killed in the War . |
| 9 | Philip sat down on the wet scree thinking about the War , and Arnhem where Great Uncle John had been killed . |
| 10 | She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up . |
| 11 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 12 | Now it was time for our first venture out ; luckily the yard was situated amidst very quiet roads , and my husband John had been loaned a schoolmaster called Paddy to act as escort . |
| 13 | The miners who had escaped , knew immediately that John had been left behind but did not know whether he had been entombed alive or buried under the rock . |
| 14 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 15 | John had been at Suzanne 's hospital bedside since early last Monday when she was found naked with 80 per cent burns in Stockport , Greater Manchester . |
| 16 | John had been the last of his generation . |
| 17 | Liza had written some weeks ago to say that John had been sent , at only a few hours ' notice , on a course . |
| 18 | Young John had been delighted . |
| 19 | ‘ It seems as if John had been waiting for them to leave . |
| 20 | He left a Bonnie Raitt concert early , and his review was the only one that omitted to mention that Elton John had been an unexpected guest . |
| 21 | John had been best man ; he looked so beautiful in morning dress , far more handsome than the groom . |
| 22 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 23 | His son John had been the first editor of The Stopfordian in 1929 . |
| 24 | On this occasion John had been breeding from a group of Aspidoras lakoi and kindly offered me a couple of pairs to try . |
| 25 | John had been alerted to the possibility of profit and so he sentenced the Honourable Alexander Augustus to a stiff course of Lake Tourism into the Jaws of Borrowdale . |
| 26 | Sir John had been a Conservative councillor and had presided over the National Industrial Relations Court for the two and a half years of its existence during the Heath administration . |
| 27 | I thought back to something Barbara had said not long before , that John had been the glue that bonded all his friends together , the magnet which drew everyone closer . |
| 28 | Sarah told her that her father and John had been discussing the possibility of war with Germany , but they had hastily changed the subject when her mother came in . |
| 29 | John had been moved to Norfolk and promoted to Corporal and he wrote to Anne nearly every day , loving letters which helped to make her grief for her mother more bearable . |
| 30 | She told Anne that she could understand how she felt as John had been born when his father was in France during the First World War . |