Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [pers pn] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the eighth of February of nineteen seventy two died and on the eleventh of May seventy three died and the plaintiff 's continued the action but the action failed so he was awarded damages from the sale of his estate and on the twenty first of July nineteen seventy two commenced an action against solicitors for negligence or breach of professional duty in detecting to register the option necessity of so doing . |
| 2 | When she finally came downstairs it was to find Carole insisting that , since this was their last night in the Hamptons before returning to the apartment in New York , she 'd arranged for them to have a romantic candle-lit dinner in their cottage . |
| 3 | It turned out he was storing paint among other things . |
| 4 | When he returned home he was given employment as a personal companion to an Austrian count , who took him to Vienna and Constantinople . |
| 5 | By the time we got back it was dropping dark ; |
| 6 | ‘ At Doncaster the buffet was closed , the waiting room looked like it had n't been cleaned for three months , the staff locked themselves in a room and every time we heard an engine and dashed out it was pulling coal wagons . ’ |
| 7 | I just think it was a momentum that was caused by some villages feeling safer from the nationalists as they got further and further from the front and therefore more and more people a bit f erm being willing to sort of talk again , shout up against the , the landlords and as they saw , as they saw that their neighbours were getting land , all the others decided well they 're getting land , we might as well talk to , have a talk about them the problems and the harsh treatment that we 've had in , in years before . |
| 8 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 9 | they live in the , a beautiful house , a little house , old , very old and erm they always said there was a secret passage underneath and my , my uncle er used to er he used , he named , he named some locks , my uncle did a till lock and when I star began to work there er they were called Salmon Baits and er Mr said to me you know he said er it 's your un they used to call him Trot , my uncle , it 's your uncle Trot that named them and I said was it and it was a till lock and they could n't get them right er they were having trouble with these particular till locks , and er my uncle said to Mr when he went around they were having trouble and he said , all these locks all these things are good for a bait for Salmon and then they were called Salmon Bait and they were traded as Salmon Bait so |
| 10 | So erm I was feeling a bit edgy about this when we were in the pub after the concert cos I thought maybe he 's reading things into it and I , you know , I was just going along for the music . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Los Angeles police said yesterday they are investigating allegations that the father of the boy who accused Jackson of molestation tried to blackmail the singer . |
| 12 | BAA , owner of Heathrow , London , the world 's busiest international airport , said yesterday it was seeking planning permission to build a fifth passenger terminal which would cost up to £900 million . |
| 13 | Kevin Keegan said yesterday he is asking £150,000 for the 29-year-old , but City will be hard-pressed to pay the Dane 's wages . |
| 14 | After all , had n't he been consecrated bishop in 1880 , the year of Jack the Ripper ? |