Example sentences of "be [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | No you 're not you got bad head again , you 're |
2 | He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum . |
3 | Crikey , cos the last time you were down you had that stinker did n't you ? |
4 | After all the formalities were over I followed Sandy back to his home in my car . |
5 | Coming almost certainly from a middle-class or working-class home , once his seminary days were over he had little opportunity for further education . |
6 | When the French were here they had much freedom in the camp because they were sensible and did not try to escape . |
7 | And while we were , while we were there we had some invitations to , to dine out with well it was my daughter 's and we went and had a meal with them and they were quite taken back by er they lived in this little which originally I had thought was a was a er a poultry house . |
8 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
9 | Inevitably I shot many animals to feed myself and my retainers , but the memorable occasions were when I hunted dangerous game or tried to secure a really fine head of a rare or elusive animal , like this mountain nyala . |
10 | What is more it had gold tassels , a feature only found in America , nowhere else in the Salvation Army world . |
11 | This is how he described that weekend in a book called A King 's Story : |
12 | ‘ This is how it started last time . ’ |
13 | That 's how we got terrible problems cos they 've all got erm cars . |
14 | That 's how I got that corduroy suit . |
15 | And in a way that 's how I approached this album , it 's how I will approach Alfie when we come you know it 's it 's a wonderful passion . |
16 | That 's how she got that bruise . |
17 | I had hoped there would be a letter from him waiting at Benedict 's when I returned last night . |
18 | But what er what happened is when they rebuilt this building in the fifteenth century the masons found these and reused them reset them inside because they 'd lost their significance in over the three hundred years , so but they were useful structural er things . |
19 | You heard about the eh education secretary 's faux pas somebody from Jack section , he , he 's apparently he slipped up er , and said right and Jack said to him I was to tell the education authorities suggest that you do when the education er clerk turn to Mr and said you are just , streaming is when he put one child in the same group for all subjects , setting is when there in different groups according to their ability , so you could be a Maths set A or an English set B , awkward is n't it ? |
20 | ‘ They are enchanted by him , and that is why they made special arrangements to bring him home to the United States . ’ |
21 | ‘ But Rickie knows he 's in trouble , big trouble , which is why he suggested this idea of isolating himself at sea . ’ |
22 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
23 | This is where we had some sort of car this is just looking at hardness of water actually , but this is , you 've got the C O three |
24 | That 's why they remembered that night . ’ |
25 | That 's why we got these chains round : to hold her togither ! ’ |
26 | ‘ That 's why we chose this site near to the city centre . ’ |
27 | I mean the Welsh population in percentage terms is now rising more rapidly than that of England and therefore by the year two thousand and one when the next review would take place er we er will certainly fully occupy if you like , that fifth seat in terms of the average size because Welsh Euro constituencies were during the past ten years , very slightly larger on average than those in England and so er we are moving from under representation to slight over representation for a temporary period er simply because er you know Wales is regarded as indivisible for this purpose and that 's why we welcomed this debate . |
28 | That 's why he mentioned that sort of figure if all you wanted was a or , a fridge , a cooker and some carpets , you could do that easy on a thousand . |
29 | ‘ That 's why you took this job , free of charge . ’ |
30 | They are , that 's why I got that offer for three big ones . |