Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] be [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second rapper causes batted eyelids for a time , and the addition of a second guitar during an encore of ‘ Go Wild ’ suddenly give the sound the extra bite it 's been missing all night , but if 25th Of May are going to appeal on musical merit as a vehicle for their politics , they 'll have to update their sound , experiment and hit harder than this . |
| 2 | The easiest way to find the record you want is to identify each record with a number , like an account number . |
| 3 | At the summer Examination it had been suggested that |
| 4 | ‘ Similar offences in the past have received a fortnight 's suspension , but because of the player 's disciplinary record he has been given this long ban , ’ said the committee chairman David Johnson . |
| 5 | By its appearance it had been cooked several days ago . |
| 6 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 7 | And of course we 've been doing these for twenty years , folders . |
| 8 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 9 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 10 | He praised the performance of 18-year-old Grant Watts , scorer of Palace 's first goal in a shock 2-1 win , and said : ‘ It was a night to enjoy after all the trouble we 've been having this season . |
| 11 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
| 12 | Instead he sent out 12th man Paul Reiffel to cover for him whole he rang chairman of selectors Lawrie Sawle to vent his feelings about the news he had been given that morning . |
| 13 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 14 | All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it . |
| 15 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 16 | In the past it has been alleged that consent was often less than genuine , the person believing that he had no option but to allow the police the right to enter the premises and search . |
| 17 | In the past it has been held that Article 86 may be infringed where a company holding a dominant position within the EC strengthens that position , by acquiring control of another company or business in the same market , to such an extent that it practically eliminates effective competition in that market . |
| 18 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 19 | Yuan looked down , then broached the subject he had been avoiding all evening . |
| 20 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 21 | What a privilege it has been to share that trip with so many wonderful people . |
| 22 | The last thing I want is to impale this dancing , living creature upon the stake of meaning . |
| 23 | The last thing I wanted was to make some hasty move which might invalidate my claims to a large share of our joint estate . |
| 24 | The first thing you do is announce half way through a year that they 're gon na put back some , but not all , of the money they cut from the budget . |
| 25 | The first thing you do is announce half way through a year that they 're gon na put back some , but not all , of the money they cut from the budget . |
| 26 | The last thing she wanted was to spend more time with this abrasive Scandinavian . |
| 27 | The last thing she wanted was to have some overbearing man muscling in . |
| 28 | She rings the same number she has been trying all day . |
| 29 | One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian slack key guitar was the superb musician and singer Gabby Pahinui , and Gabby is the reason we 've been given this rare and welcome opportunity to speak to Ry Cooder . |
| 30 | It 's called the N tuple method is because the first thing we do is to take that image and break it up into a set of tuples each of N in size . |