Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBA , the automotive parts to aircraft interiors group , yesterday announced it was tapping shareholders for £126 million to pay for expansion in continental Europe . |
| 2 | The Forum also revealed it was proposing Mr Jan Czarnogursky , the prominent Slovak lawyer and human rights activist who only last month under the old regime was put on trial , for the post of prime minister or first deputy prime minister . |
| 3 | She also knew it was affecting Silas because his arms had begun to clasp her even more tightly , with one hand moving to rest upon her breast . |
| 4 | There 's also the herb garden , newly opened it 's to sell herb plants and seeds — and behind it something rather more exotic is growing — in the butterfly house … which houses 20 kinds of butterflies and moths in a temperature of eighty degrees . |
| 5 | It was with some relief that he found a village which actually admitted it was called Short Soham . |