Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] press " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1967 Criminal Justice Act had added the suspended sentence which had been pressed on the Home Secretary by an enthusiastic judiciary . |
| 2 | What we decided to do , because I thought that 's what you 'd been pressing for , was to show that as the equivalent affect of , okay , you think you 're making these profits but you 're actually enjoying services that you 're not paying for . |
| 3 | Captain Charles Campbell , the Government agent in the burgh of Stirling in 1734 , wrote to Lord Milton to desire the freedom of a Stirling man named Kier who had been pressed by Captain Oliphant of the Terrible , a cruiser stationed in the Forth . |
| 4 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 5 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 6 | The director of policy of the Consumers ' Association , Stephen Locke , said it had been pressing the Government to introduce the measures for some time . |
| 7 | Cunliffe admitted that his knowledge of Germany was inadequate and that his figure was ‘ little more than a shot in the dark as he had been pressed to arrive at it between a Saturday and a Monday ’ . |
| 8 | He had been pressing for the opportunity to abandon himself , free of dogma , and here it was . |