Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then they 're told he had 230 burglary convictions |
| 32 | As for Meredith-Lee 's death , if you 're asking me did I construct a bomb and blow him up , the answer is no . |
| 33 | I mean we we 're saying we had things down there in excess of three days . |
| 34 | And as I was saying about all this , you 're saying What did my Mother do to eke it out ? |
| 35 | ‘ And you 're saying it began with a Big Bang ? ’ |
| 36 | Even if it was your they 're saying it belonged to yourself . |
| 37 | ‘ You 're saying you went to the office twice then ? ’ |
| 38 | Sounds like you 're saying you caught me sulking or something like that no have you not seen it , he was in Inspector Morse as well . |
| 39 | ‘ So the position is , ’ Maxim summed up , ‘ that they assume the dead man , Hochhauser , had some document or other , they assume Blagg picked it up , and now they 're assuming he gave it to me . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 41 | They 're claiming he started it ? ’ |
| 42 | The group are staying for another 24 hours , during which they 're hoping whatever did go bump in the night will make a return appearance . |
| 43 | So , I says an I says you 're working I said |
| 44 | By May 1946 a constitution had been drafted which suited the Communist-Socialist approach to politics , with a strong lower house of parliament . |
| 45 | I 'd been wondering what made me think of Schumann . ’ |
| 46 | He must have been wondering what had happened to his Sunday dinner , if they had such a thing in Joy 's house . |
| 47 | Your lord may even find it diverting , as well as enlightening , for he must have been wondering what had been laid on his doorstone . ’ |
| 48 | I wish I had saved the hedgehog now , and not stood aside , and I have been wondering what stopped me from performing a natural act of sentimental kindness . |
| 49 | ‘ I 've been wondering what happened to you . ’ |
| 50 | I remember little of my stay in the intensive care unit , but I am told they cared for me every second of the night and day . |
| 51 | I am told it made wonderful television . |
| 52 | The walkers who had wangled the lift with him looked as if they had been told they had a week to live , suggesting the car conversation must have fulfilled my expectations . |
| 53 | They had been told they had NO chance of a refund after Tjolle declared himself bankrupt , even though he removed £400,000 from the company before it collapsed . |
| 54 | He had to wait until nine o'clock to telephone the garage , and he had been told they had no time that morning and would try to get down in the afternoon . |
| 55 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 56 | They had been told they did not qualify for 13 weeks ' money under benefit regulations . |
| 57 | AN UNPRECEDENTED string of deaths and life-threatening collapses began on a hospital children 's ward after a nurse had been told she lacked experience caring for sick youngsters , a court was told yesterday . |
| 58 | Tact and discretion he had used , and he dared say that Dierdriu had been told who had been at the back of it . |
| 59 | Cypriot authorities had been told he had been smuggled from the country . |
| 60 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |