Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Black goes down theatrically on the edge of the box and nothing has been given and Gemmell took a chance then he er overplayed his protest to the referee . |
| 2 | I 've been done and Bill 's been done . |
| 3 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 4 | I 've been told that prices go to the publishers six weeks before publication , but in this instance the price had changed three months previously . |
| 5 | " I want you to go away , because I 've been told that Timothy is in love with you . |
| 6 | I 've been told that men do n't like women , period . |
| 7 | Maloney said : ‘ I 've been informed that Lennox 's share will now be 75 per cent . |
| 8 | In effect , I have been saying that students ' academic freedoms are necessary conditions in the realization of the emancipatory promise of higher education . |
| 9 | " I have been spending and spending , " said Alice . |
| 10 | I have been told that synthetics are not warm enough on the one hand , or by others that they are too hot ! |
| 11 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 12 | There is also the great hill-figure , the Cerne Giant , which has been identified as Hercules and may have been one of many such figures . |
| 13 | The Proposal Form is the basis on which cover is provided and items of this nature must be specifically declared to be covered . |
| 14 | In desperation , Lucien shrouded himself in an outdoor cloak , and wrapped a thin , fringed shawl , which had been left as decoration over a table under the window , round his head and face , tucking its corners carefully beneath the cloak 's hood . |
| 15 | In Oxfordshire the Stonesfield slate-pits and mines shut down one by one during the second half of the nineteenth century ; in Leicestershire the Swithland slate-quarries , which had been worked since Henry III 's time , shut down altogether in 1887 ; and so it was in nearly every county in England . |
| 16 | Thus , for example , Salaman ( 1979 , p.61 ) has defined structure as ‘ the way in which work is organised and control exercised ’ , a definition in which we can see the twofold emphasis on relationships of communication and authority . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , International Paint representative based in Southampton in the UK , also headed for Hobart to check the 10 race yachts , all of which have been painted and anti-fouled with International products . |
| 18 | Daly himself mentions coral islands which have been elevated and others which have subsided , for his theory does not exclude local subsidence . |
| 19 | If any part of such a simulation is not achieved then the trainee should be credited only with the Learning Outcomes which have been achieved and will , after appropriate remediation need to work through another similar situation in order to demonstrate competence in the remaining Learning Outcomes . |
| 20 | It 's , certainly erm well attended , there 's , you know thousands of people attend and basically it centres around erm , a fire , Beltane means erm , sacred fire and erm a procession of drummers leads me to top of a path and along Carlfa , Carlton Hill and erm fire sculptures are lit around me and I unfo ha have this great costume that I unfold in and erm process round the hill and round hill are different performers erm painted in different colours to represent different elements of nature , and finally we come to this big fire where which I light with hands , which have been sculpted and bannocks are given to the people to eat , and erm the tradition that you 're supposed to cross the fire as a sort of a erm purification ceremony or or through the ashes of the fire . |
| 21 | John Paul Gallagher , who has been appointed as chaplain to the U.S. , Menwith Hill base , is with the U.S. Bishopric of the Forces and can be contacted at or via the base . |
| 22 | So intense did the criticism become that Mr Stringer , who has been connected as player , coach and now manager with Norwich for almost 30 years , took the unprecedented step of going on national radio to defend himself and his players . |
| 23 | Several people with North-East connections have been linked with the job former Middlesbrough manager Bruce Rioch , ex-Sunderland chief coach Viv Busby , one-time York boss John Bird , David McCreery , who has been released as Hartlepool 's player-assistant manager , and Billy McEwan , once with Scarborough in a coaching and scouting capacity . |
| 24 | Portillo , who has been described as tinder dry economically and the most talented right-wing politician of his generation , still holds a candle for Margaret Thatcher in the Cabinet . |
| 25 | She has been told that members of the Lords are permitted to use the facilities provided by the Commons — the bar , the library , etc — and trot up and down the Commons corridors . |
| 26 | ‘ You would n't be making such a fuss if you 'd been named as Vitor 's girlfriend , ’ the young man had declared . |
| 27 | Suddenly she realised just how much she 'd been hoping that Jake and Janice were still not married . |
| 28 | The five who died were identified as Barry Dunne , 22 , the driver , Anthony Ferguson and Paul O'Connor , both 20 , Barry Cumiskey , 21 , and Orla Reynolds , 19 . |
| 29 | She remembered being told that Nahum was dead . |
| 30 | Those who resisted were denounced as mutineers and treated accordingly . |