Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in spite of the large amount of flying experience I had accumulated overseas , I found that it was of little use to me back in the UK , I did find , however , that my seniority as an NCO seemed to attract functions that I found difficult to avoid . |
| 2 | He later reported that they were in worse condition than he had first thought and doubted whether they were fit for the job . |
| 3 | The message I got was that the last few days it did n't matter a bugger what it cost but we were in desperate straights to get in stock . |
| 4 | International law recognised that it was for each state to determine the conditions upon which it granted its nationality to ships , subject to there being a genuine link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 5 | The hunt for other reasons to explain the behaviour of a Ceauşescu misses the point : he was not ‘ really ’ a patriot or ‘ at heart ’ a reformer , though when he proclaimed that he was at any given moment one thing , he was that but at the same time was the opposite . |
| 6 | Happiness ( or unhappiness ) was not mentioned , and I assumed that it was of subsidiary importance . |
| 7 | It makes sense , therefore , to think of the ninth-century West Frankish church , deeply implicated though it was in secular politics , its personnel largely recruited from the indigenous nobility , and often riven by factional rivalries , yet with its own corporate self-consciousness and distinctive goals . |
| 8 | We well we did , we looked at it when we first opened but it was like another grand to do that . |
| 9 | Lord Anson , bombarded as he was from all directions by demands for favours , was hard to move towards action , and Lieutenant Home no doubt felt it would be a case of out of sight out of mind . |
| 10 | She received three more strokes at one minute intervals , and each ignited an inward blaze of masochistic torment , which heightened until she was at one with the smarting pain . |
| 11 | These have taken somewhat longer than we anticipated but we are at last making good progress towards agreeing prices for the Eurojet contract and we are expecting to receive more acceptable price quotations from Eurofighter very shortly for their part of the work . |
| 12 | It was at that stage that I too decided that it was beyond any rational explanation . |
| 13 | So we decided that it was worth three pounds . ’ |
| 14 | Her interest in cosmetics , like that of her friend Alix Bowen , was minimal , but , like Alix Bowen , she decided that it was after all a festive occasion , and she began at this late moment to apply a little mascara . |
| 15 | He glanced briefly at Fernando and , satisfied that she was in safe hands , turned back to the lovely air stewardess . |
| 16 | For a while Wordsworth retained his loyalty to the Girondin leaders of France , though this meant that he was in English eyes a ‘ Jacobin' , that is , a revolutionary extremist who had actually visited the infected country twice . |
| 17 | The destruction in 1980 of Iraq 's two Gulf terminals , together with the depletion of its foreign-exchange reserves , meant that it was in urgent need of an alternative means of delivering oil in the Gulf and a means of settling suppliers ' bills while payment for the oil was coming through . |
| 18 | He dreamed that he was amongst dark waters , on a mudbank just above the surface . |
| 19 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 20 | Fastening my watch round my wrist I saw that it was after seven and I could hear the farm men clattering in the yard outside as they began their morning tasks . |
| 21 | I knew that one as soon as I saw that it was from that is was a reject one . |
| 22 | This marched him well up the field , and when the final scores came in we saw that he was in equal third place behind Brian Harley and the inevitable Bjorn Carlssen . |
| 23 | I always gave my husband the benefit of the doubt and ‘ buried ’ his brutality because I was so ashamed and felt that I was in some way to blame . |
| 24 | In researching this complex and multi-faceted problem , we felt that it was of paramount importance to place this issue within an historical , international and political context . |
| 25 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 26 | Monks were supposed to enjoy Lectio : in the scriptures and in the writings of the fathers of the Church , the monk had an encounter with the divine and felt that he was in some mysterious sense studying God himself . |
| 27 | At one time she felt Charlotte turn towards her husband , and knew that they were in each other 's arms . |
| 28 | Edward knew that he was on treacherous ground . |
| 29 | Alternatively , is the right hon. Gentleman implying — as I thought that he was in some of his remarks — that legal aid would be generally available to those appearing before adjudicators or tribunals , and that they could secure representation from any part of the legal profession ? |
| 30 | Harley thought that it was from 1694 that the Dissenters acted " against all their principles and the liberties of the nation " by adhering to the ministerial section of the Whig party . |