Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally he would n't touch a job as small as the cottage , but I once did a favour for his father , and when I mentioned that I was having trouble finding someone to do the job he volunteered . ’ |
| 2 | When daylight dawned he found that he was sharing space with a hoard of gold ingots , one of the lost treasures of the area . |
| 3 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |
| 4 | After a while Rostov found that he was losing track of the ebb and flow of the conversation . |
| 5 | He just reported that you were asking questions , and explained how he 'd dealt with it . |
| 6 | After going comfortably for nearly an hour Pat Connolly reported that he was losing engine pressure . |
| 7 | A similar reaction occurred when he was given sugar , milk and oranges . |
| 8 | He realized that she was pleading for- some reason , but was n't quite sure why . |
| 9 | Mrs Frizzell wished mightily that she could infuse into her own voice just that inflection by which Mrs MacDonald conveyed that she was doing Tollemarche a special favour by coming to the ball . |
| 10 | When , late in 1978 , Kristen and her boyfriend Kevin Ayers announced that they were leaving England to live in Spain , Branson took the opportunity to buy Ayers ' houseboat , the Duende , moored on the Regents Canal , a short distance from his old boat . |
| 11 | The Kingfisher group , whose name was changed from Woolworths earlier this year , includes about 720 high street shops under the Woolworths name , electrical retailer Comet with 307 outlets , Britain 's leading DIY group , B&Q , and Superdrug , the high street chain which last week announced that it is buying Medicare from the Gateway supermarket chain 's new owners Isosceles . |
| 12 | Having last week announced that it is backing Ken Livingstone for the Labour leadership , it now says it supports the ‘ Sun Readers ' Party ’ . |
| 13 | Another very important factor was that at the Boat Show the R Y A announced that it was taking responsibility for the national coordination of all activities er for sailors with special needs , that 's blind , deaf , disabled and there are many organizations who are working in this field but the R Y A is the coordinator . |
| 14 | The Japanese government , which also strongly supported a return to commercial whaling , announced that it was holding talks with Russia and South Korea with a view to setting up a similar organization for " rational exploitation " of marine mammals in the north Pacific . |
| 15 | On Feb. 21 India announced that it was sending medicines worth Rs10,000,000 while Algeria donated some 8 tonnes of food and medicines . |
| 16 | On April 10 the National Bank of Yugoslavia ( NBY ) announced that it was seeking rescheduling of its foreign debts , which totalled US$15,000 million . |
| 17 | Two days before Arrese 's Valladolid speech , France announced that it was to grant independence to its protectorate in Morocco . |
| 18 | In a statement on Nov. 19 the Comoran Union for Progress ( Udzima ) announced that it was withdrawing support from its leader , President Said Mohammed Djohar , and going into opposition ; the statement accused Djohar of carrying out a political witch-hunt following an attempted coup and subsequent Cabinet reshuffle in August [ see p. 38378 ] . |
| 19 | As anticipated , Unix Systems Laboratories Inc last week announced that it was joining X/Open Ltd under the new technical membership structure the consortium put in place in October . |
| 20 | On the same day the UN World Food Programme announced that it was granting $1,900,000 in emergency supplies to Bangladesh . |
| 21 | It also announced that it was reducing customs duty on sales from such zones to the domestic market . |
| 22 | Three days later , in an extraordinary further development , the Justice Department announced that it was investigating Sessions and his wife in relation to the possible violation of ethics rules . |
| 23 | On Dec. 23 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced that it was delaying disbursement of SDR45,230,000 ( about US$64,675,000 ) , the second instalment under its enhanced structural adjustment facility ( ESAF ) , pending further discussion with the government about economic performance targets . |
| 24 | They moved in during September 1950 and just about that time Ninette de Valois announced that she was appointing John resident choreographer of Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet for the following season . |
| 25 | Zeinab announced that she was taking Owen to the theatre . |
| 26 | Mulroney , however , professed himself still optimistic that the Accord would succeed and announced that he was commissioning Lowell Murray , the Government Leader in the Senate and Minister of State for Federal-Provincial Relations , as a special Meech Lake emissary . |
| 27 | The Constitution allowed the Governor-General no discretion over this , but Eri announced that he was reinstating Diro in his ministerial and parliamentary posts , claiming that to dismiss him would provoke immense social and political upheaval . |
| 28 | Ishaya Bakut , announced that he was withdrawing ECOMOG forces from NPFL areas . |
| 29 | While it was n't exactly a cheerful tone , it was more animated than Faye had been since she first admitted that she was having trouble with her eyes , and Belinda knew that she would tell her husband about the problem as soon as they were alone . |
| 30 | ‘ Bess Halidon , your mother , gave me proof of it when she came here on the day prior to her death and asked that you be found employment . ’ |