Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never damn well is , Donaldson thought , and asked what was to be done about Mrs Balanchine . |
| 2 | David Linacre had dozed off on the sofa one evening when his daughter Heidi came in and asked who was in the shower . |
| 3 | Suddenly , Rachel saw Tiger Balm Gardens and realised they were on Tai Hang Road . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He played the hard man and pretended he was beyond fear , but that was nonsense . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyway , a certain man appeared , and pretended he was in love with Miss Havisham . |
| 7 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 8 | I looked at my watch and found it was after eleven o'clock , which meant nothing really . |
| 9 | They 're gunned up and fired up and told it 's for real . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Brian , emerging from the bathroom , heard his wife talking and imagined she was with Camille , thus he was surprised to find her alone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I am writing to convey how shocked and saddened I am at the news . |
| 14 | But Taylor 's staff checked with Downing Street — and discovered he was in no position to offer anything . |
| 15 | Any farm worker could easily anticipate the consequences of ‘ going against ’ the local farmers , so for the most part they resigned themselves to this situation , bit their tongues rather than spoke out and developed what is by now their notorious taciturnity and ability to ‘ keep themselves to themselves ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I saw flood-lit spaces , heard music and felt I was in another world , somewhere in Switzerland . |
| 18 | ‘ He was charming , ’ she lied , and felt it was worth it to see him look relieved . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mike met his brother 's eyes and saw they were like steel . |
| 21 | I burst on to the pass from Jack Clarke , had a wee look and saw I was in the clear . |
| 22 | He looked at Catherine Crane 's feet and saw she was in a similar situation . |
| 23 | Then he remembered something and knew he was in duty bound to take that risk . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I was sixteen and thought I was in love . |
| 28 | And , like a little child , he stopped being careful and tense for a moment and said what was in his head , quite simply . |
| 29 | She took the call and said it was for me . |
| 30 | I worked in the factory and said it was for fun ; but it was n't — I did it because I needed to . ’ |