Example sentences of "be [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His friends tried to console hi , but he could n't help thinking about the £9,300 percentage that would have been his had he been carrying the bag on the day . |
| 2 | Oh I I mean I have n't been I had it on but I put it off because it was |
| 3 | No no I thought it would be I thought it would be er out there meeting you know companies or whatever |
| 4 | who 's going this , who , what , who 's going to answer if they put a hundred and fifty , a hundred and seventy thousand , five pound down and nobody will watching it being who did it ? |
| 5 | Were you Did you wish you had clothes like that when you were young ? |
| 6 | But planners are paid to be pessimistic , and for the time being they felt it prudent to assume that American assistance in a crisis — imperative though it would be — was likely to be forthcoming only after an unpredictable interval . |
| 7 | The muzzle were they had nothing else you see . |
| 8 | Were they did they need a lot of attention ? |
| 9 | And were they did you see them coming up ? |
| 10 | No it were n't ma , it were , it were it did its job , that was keep your heating up , cos you could blow it up and it |
| 11 | The to infinitive after and then , on the other hand , creates the impression of a delayed reaction ; it suggests that it took a moment 's reflection for the person to realize the import of what he had seen , this realization being what triggered his sudden cry . |
| 12 | The revenues it generated — well over £2 million — were what enabled him to bid for the factory at Earby , only a couple of miles over the hill from Barnoldswick . |
| 13 | But those two things together were what enabled them to get their plan room into what it is now . |
| 14 | I was longing to get back to it , or perhaps its associations with Toby were what lent it this sudden magnetism . " |
| 15 | Perhaps the differences between the men were what caused their plans to eventually fall apart , but I think it was a combination of Cassius 's selfishness , Brutus 's nobility , and extremely bad luck which finally finished off the conspirators . |
| 16 | Bananas were what delighted them most . |
| 17 | The kids are what did you say ? |
| 18 | None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference . |
| 19 | As did Edward York 's Basilio-he had it , but would n't let go of it . |
| 20 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 21 | No , no well not really Elly , trouble is I had my bag with me and erm it 's carrying it across the Underground but it 's quite a way across the Underground cos you have go |
| 22 | The important factor is you did it . |
| 23 | And it 's funny because the last car that I saw the fellow 's from I saw the fellow 's who did it . |
| 24 | No , it 's who did it . |
| 25 | The thing is we did it right , we did it in the nappy , then we fucking put him spread-eagled on a bench and me mate ran off to get the shaving kit stuff and this fucking this people who 's erm , looking wom , girls in there and everything , real fucking pissed up |
| 26 | Where 's he did he bring his car up ? |
| 27 | So what is it did you used to have more f er was it okay at first I mean you used to have quite a few friends when you first move in ? |
| 28 | No , this guy 's fault is he had one too many bourbons before getting up to strut his stuff on the dance-floor . |
| 29 | And how old is he did you say ? |
| 30 | Old dad and that 's what drove my mother mad . |