Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But we only learnt he was called Raphael about eight weeks ago , during my visit here before Lent . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You just said you were called Frank . ’ |
| 3 | BBA , the automotive parts to aircraft interiors group , yesterday announced it was tapping shareholders for £126 million to pay for expansion in continental Europe . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ferguson also confirmed he is to report Kettering referee Brian Hill following last weekend 's clash at Bramall Lane after insisting he did not want the official to control United 's games in the future . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think the thing that really upset him was seeing Werewolf slide across the BMW 's bonnet to get to the driver 's door . |
| 8 | The Huyghes immediately announced they were bringing charges on two counts because the communiqué constituted a violation of professional secrecy and because it could influence legal investigations . |
| 9 | At one point I almost imagined I was sitting typing while a dreadful senseless war was waged in the Gulf . |
| 10 | And so then said you 're telling porkies as a joke or something and Jimmy went what you bloody talking about |
| 11 | And however attracted they were to direct democracy and peasant self-government , they were increasingly concerned to take power into their own hands . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was with some relief that he found a village which actually admitted it was called Short Soham . |