Example sentences of "be [adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LEFT Dawn eating a chick , which when she was in training would be all she had to eat all day . |
| 2 | TV viewers , astute ones , will notice when Norman first hoves on to the screen that his swing is very upright , which is how he started playing this game . |
| 3 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 4 | That 's when I had to put these things onto dea er put death certificates into th their the doctor 's certificate into English , erm they were pretty good , t others were n't so g , er you know , were n't so good . |
| 5 | Maybe , Liz reflects ( for this is what she contemplates , through the oval mirror ) , maybe this is why they decided to have such a party , this year , at the end of this decade : as a sign that they had weathered so much , and were now entering a new phase ? |
| 6 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 7 | In order to make the radio series , over 30 interviews were recorded exclusively , although only 5% could be used in the finished production , which is why I decided to produce this book , which will prove to be an excellent documentation on the life of David Bowie — an insight into this enigma of the rock world — told by those who really know . |
| 8 | Yes , that 's why they started beating each other up . |
| 9 | No that 's all we 've got , that 's why we had to get some . |
| 10 | That 's why I began to see less of him . |
| 11 | That 's why I wanted to do this movie . ’ |
| 12 | That 's why I wanted to do this movie . ’ |
| 13 | One glance was all it took to realise this was one hard nut to crack — his features still completely impassive . |
| 14 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 15 | And and the write up in one of the papers well I was well I 'd to tell that guy if he 's watching I can ya nip ! |
| 16 | And it was then she had decided that war work or not , her daughter 's excursions with convalescent wounded must stop at once . |
| 17 | She had not seen him arrive at her home , since she had not known who he was when they had encountered each other in the garden — but she had seen him leave . |
| 18 | He hated her ; that was why he had made those foul accusations when surely he must know she was not capable of such treachery . |
| 19 | That was why he had voiced this craven option ; so as to witness it vanishing . |
| 20 | What I could n't work out was why he 'd driven all the way over here . |
| 21 | This was why she 'd chosen this profession . |