Example sentences of "be [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this morning , I must say , I found it quite offensive and it may well have been the urge to demonstrate just how foolish his insinuation had been that caused me to set off up the footpath . |
| 2 | If you 're that advanced you have to pay for yourself . |
| 3 | I 'm warm and tired and the ground 's soft , so I just lie down where I am and shut my eyes . |
| 4 | Kelly 's been and had her hair dyed . |
| 5 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 6 | I mean , it 's like the jeans , I say , for Laura I paid fourteen ninety nine for a pair there , and eleven ninety nine for the other pair , well I 've been and got myself two pair cos I mean , it 's more or less all I wear just a , a couple of weeks before , and I 'd only paid twelve ninety nine a pair for my own ! |
| 7 | Perhaps he 's been and washed it off again . |
| 8 | This decision was immensely helpful to Jonathan Cape since it had been and remained their intention to publish the next two volumes of the Diaries and a further volume that related to Crossman 's earlier back-bench activities . |
| 9 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 10 | I bet I been and forgot what I come in here for now I 'm not really sure . |
| 11 | " Sam here 's just been an' asked me to be his wife , " she said . |
| 12 | It may well be that had they known of it they would have been even more exigent . |
| 13 | SR can not be all things to all women — it must be a reflection of the concerns of its editors , like any magazine and we must remember how harmful struggling for control of our ‘ tiny slice ’ of power can be and put our astonishing energy and feeling into creating a world in which we can expand and fill our rightful share of Smiths with our chosen , positive images of women — the men are n't going to do it for us . |
| 14 | But where other people would probably have covered the past in a coat of paint , the building 's new young occupants , the Stewarts have happily let it be and turned their decorative attentions to the interior instead . |
| 15 | What is is this come to light after the event as it were or did you know that was there when we were redoing the machine ? |
| 16 | Though what those powers were that made him think and say such things , he did not know or understand . |
| 17 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
| 18 | she spoke to and said we 've discussed it cos I asked whether she 'd done that , she said she 'd spoken to and said we 've discussed that we should share the work more equally and said no I 'm happy with the way things were and left it that way |
| 19 | He asked how you were and said you were a very good horse-woman . " |
| 20 | ‘ She came down to Aberconwy School where we all were and said she wanted all the mothers and babies to stay with her , ’ said Tracey Parker . |
| 21 | I think that 's what turned him off club management — he knew what his interests were and decided he could walk away from the hassle . |
| 22 | I took him into the hangar where the kites were and stroked his uniform , I kissed his insignia , Then I found out how far his freckles went down , I got him so worked up he 'd have promised me anything to let him do it to me That was really how he saw it , it was something he wanted to do to a girl . |
| 23 | Mr. Chairman , ladies and gentlemen , it is n't that I would like to say a word , it is that told me to say a word , and I realise I am starting off in the right way . |
| 24 | I see it is that had it worked it would have fulfilled their ideology . |
| 25 | Yeah , right , what I 'm after is that set one . |
| 26 | Oh yeah is that did you tell him about the test ? |
| 27 | But I have often asked myself what it is that drew me to Sibelius 's music and I think it is that he is a composer who can not really be compared to anyone else . |
| 28 | This means that once she knows where an object is and recorded it on the database , it is her responsibility to keep that information accurate . |
| 29 | Both victim and aggressor would be immune from moral judgment ; the former for taking whatever social path it was that made him vulnerable and the latter for unleashing his fury , frustrations or whatever , upon the passive recipient of his cruelty and wrath . |
| 30 | She watched every video you ever made , trying to analyse just what it was that made you so special , so different from all the rest . ’ |