Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 4 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 5 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 6 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 7 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 8 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 9 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The most foolish thing I ever did was take her to the Foundling . |
| 11 | Siberia for me , but all they did was put me on a plane heading for Berlin . |
| 12 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
| 13 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 14 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 15 | But the overall effect of two minutes in her presence had been to fill him with an all powerful sense of her sex . |
| 16 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 17 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 18 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 19 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 20 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 21 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 22 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 23 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 24 | The intention had been to brand her as a ‘ hoarder ’ as well as the ‘ milk snatcher ’ , but most of us thought this seemed an eminently sensible thing for her to have done . |
| 25 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 26 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 27 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 28 | And romance — although ideally , if she had been advising him as a florist , she would have suggested roses instead of the more exotic lilies and orchids he had chosen . |
| 29 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 30 | Our last Letters are dated Hobart Town Feb. 9 up to which time his expedition had been eminently successful ; far more so than he could have anticipated ; the most liberal assistance had been rendered him by the Authorities , everything that could facilitate his views being cheerfully accorded : while nothing could exceed the kindness of Sir John and Lady Franklin in whose house he was then residing : in fact so much were they interested in his pursuits that upon more than one occasion they accompanied him in his exploring parties . |