Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily no-one was injured and recording recommenced once the bridge had been resecured . |
| 2 | Thankfully no-one was hurt . |
| 3 | He was knocked unconscious for a brief period but luckily nothing was broken . |
| 4 | Latterly I was digitalised and pulsed my way across the dark convexities of visual-display units . |
| 5 | Mostly I was ignored , although I had every material thing I could wish for . |
| 6 | Eventually I was asked if my reference number related to a low-level police helicopter flight planned in Wales . |
| 7 | Eventually I was drawn to a sign in the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society advertising 11.3 per cent . ’ |
| 8 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 9 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 10 | He asked me a lot of suspicious questions , and eventually I was shown to what must have been the poorest room in his house , over the kitchen , facing a hen-run . |
| 11 | Then she must sit in the sun before hauling it back up and altogether I was enraged and wished I was in a condition to show her how it should be done . |
| 12 | I mean , I myself , for instance , after I 'd published my first book on psychoanalysis in nineteen eighty was summoned to the House of Commons by and given a dinner , in the House of Commons Restaurant , which is n't very good actually , least it was n't then , and effectively I was told by this great man was , noticed , had a very high opinion of his own ego , that erm , you know the left was in charge of psychoanalysis in this country , and had better conform or shut up . |
| 13 | Before being taken on I was asked to go to Parma because the ‘ Big Boss ’ , as he was called , wanted to interview me . |
| 14 | I ordered six and from then on I was hooked . |
| 15 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose you 'd rather I was clothed in a voluminous sack ; then your beloved Dane would n't be able to ogle my body as he normally does . ’ |
| 17 | It is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it which is the consent of the majority or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body , one community which the consent of every individual that united into it agreed that it should and so everyone is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority . |
| 18 | The boss said we could n't go outside because employment inspectors would catch us , and so everyone was fed and slept in the factory . |
| 19 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |
| 20 | So nothing is done . |
| 21 | For him , every organism was an outward type of an inner Divine thought ; so nothing was isolated , and everything was linked to everything else . |
| 22 | We were due to leave Canjuers four days afterwards and there was much to think about so nothing was done . |
| 23 | So nothing was said . |
| 24 | I leave my car to talk with them , and suddenly I am attacked , my wallet taken . |
| 25 | Suddenly I 'm surrounded by a stereophonic cacophony — from the radio on one side and the hallway on the other . |
| 26 | Suddenly I was struck down by an illness . |
| 27 | And suddenly I was swept out of myself — knowing , knowing , knowing . |
| 28 | Suddenly I was woken by a gentle knocking on the window . |
| 29 | And suddenly I was changed in myself . |
| 30 | They must have been watching from a hill-top as I rode towards them because suddenly I was surrounded by a company of about 40 soldiers , all aged between 17 and 18 years . |