Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course what defeated me was knows this fellow that is an ambulance driver and he 's classed as working class . |
| 2 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 3 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 4 | Adam found he was holding both hands clamped over his mouth . |
| 5 | Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said . |
| 6 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 7 | I reckoned we were doing more damage to Naamen 's image than the demonstrators . |
| 8 | We were engaged , within weeks of marriage , when I discovered she was seeing another man . |
| 9 | ‘ I heard he was making some kind of detective story with McQueen . ’ |
| 10 | The ultimate warning over ouija comes from a high-ranking chaos magician who knew I was writing this book . |
| 11 | ‘ If I thought I was causing any pain to the fish I would n't go fishing and I think all anglers feel that way , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Juliet felt she was seeing another side to her mother , sensitive , vulnerable , and brave . |
| 13 | You might get a real bad one and then you had a rough time but mostly they gave way and very often , if you got a drunk , another policeman saw you were having some difficulty . |
| 14 | This sight brought her immediately down from her high , tragic pinnacle and made it seem all somehow cosier , as she thought she was sharing this music with such a wise and friendly dog . |
| 15 | Of course I 'm sorry , for some strange reason I thought we were going that way , I 've got to go through the other way have n't I ? |
| 16 | The ‘ New Style ’ Calendar was adopted in Britain in 1752 but not without some opposition from some who thought they were losing several days of their life . |
| 17 | Well , s I thought it was tending that way . |
| 18 | Then I realized he was making some sort of joke and endeavoured to smile appropriately , though I suspect some residue of my bewilderment , not to say shock , remained detectable in my expression . |
| 19 | In the whole , as the degree of discrimination increased it was found that reaction time increased at a fairly constant rate . |
| 20 | I said I 'm getting more enjoyment out of . |
| 21 | I had I 'm getting that way tomorrow night ! |
| 22 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 23 | Had she been asked that minute what her exact feelings were , she might have said , I have done what I can for Andrée , if she 's going to blow cold again , if she does n't want to see me any more , vogue la galère , I shall have to survive , I shall . |
| 24 | What had you been doing that day ? |
| 25 | exactly , but why wait until nineteen eighty eight to discover that , how long had you been doing these estimates for ? , how many years have you been doing ? |
| 26 | What had you been going that day ? |
| 27 | They would go openly and honestly by day , he said , and pretended not to hear when Dorrainge said they were inviting all kinds of trouble . |
| 28 | You said they were building another garage did n't you ? |
| 29 | Virginia Bottomley , a health minister , said many of the 3,000 people sleeping rough in the city might have stayed at home had they been given enough attention earlier . |
| 30 | Melvyn Kelly , prosecuting , said it was expected that committal proceedings would be able to take place in two weeks . |