Example sentences of "[be] [verb] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not done for imperial purposes , but once the navy had been developed it affected everything that happened in English policy . |
| 2 | Although tests had not been completed it seemed probable that the infection was contracted during surgery and a junior member of the surgical team had been identified as a carrier who began work at the hospital in last May . |
| 3 | ‘ And you 're saying it began with a Big Bang ? ’ |
| 4 | Even if it was your they 're saying it belonged to yourself . |
| 5 | I am told it made wonderful television . |
| 6 | It was taken off me at Widnes , with Jonathan Davies doing most of the tactical kicking , and I 've been told it cost me a Great Britain tour chance . |
| 7 | With a lot of effort she finally managed to close the left-hand door and bolt it into place , then pushed the arm against the dead man 's chest and forced the other door over , sliding the remains of a file through two loops where the handles had once been to keep it shut . |
| 8 | I 've been doing it bit by bit . |
| 9 | Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused . |
| 10 | There is no spider to be seen it had of course retreated to the darkest corner it could find again . |
| 11 | How come , how long I mean me and Rusty and that be cleaned it did n't we ? |
| 12 | When Labour opposed sequestration of union assets it meant , ‘ strike freely ’ , when it said trade union immunities would be restored it meant ‘ strike often ’ , and when it approved of enabling secondary action it meant ‘ strike anywhere ’ . |
| 13 | Mr Williamson , can I ask for your confirmation that the reason that the Secretary of State deleted Policy E two in the nineteen eighty structure plan was one of the many reasons under the heading , General , there is no specific reference in the notice of approval to the deletion of this policy and therefore I am assuming it fell for one of the reasons given in paragraphs five point two to five point four five . |
| 14 | The girls that were using it reckoned that they were contacting ‘ the spirit world ’ but I reckoned it was all a big con trick . |
| 15 | We were to find it repeated elsewhere over the following two weeks . |
| 16 | The water 's work being done it passed into the Swilgate , this wending its way to the outskirts of Tewkesbury , where it joins the Severn . |
| 17 | CND was still marching , and although the numbers were dwindling it remained a focus of opposition . |
| 18 | The people who were selling it consisted of a very large woman , her parchment face frozen in a permanent ‘ bad smell ’ look , and a small man ( like female and male spiders , thought Jane ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The farmer and his wife who were selling it stood in front of this doorway upstairs , sort of half in the way , because it was n't too tidy . |
| 20 | And when a car collided with a stationary vehicle , listeners were told it had encountered a van full of envelopes and other items of stationery ! |
| 21 | But he said when he and his pregnant wife Julie came to claim the furniture back , they were told it had vanished during a burglary in November . |
| 22 | Lily Morrison went into Darlington Memorial Hospital after waiting 13 months for a hernia operation and waited hours before being told it had been cancelled . |
| 23 | thing and they were saying it started already and the Austrians were in the lead at that time |
| 24 | As the votes were counted it became clear that the contest was the closest federal election for 30 years , with both sides claiming to have won a narrow victory . |
| 25 | The Japanese experience at the Yamato Mountains suggested that when meteorites were concentrated it happened behind mountain barriers where patches of bare ice lay stagnant . |
| 26 | We had screens on wheels in latter years at , last few years at school and er he used to go down to the tea room for a cup of tea half way down the stairs , the teachers ' room and perhaps go toilet as well , and er the one at the back was a foot out from the screen and every now and then he 'd have a look to see if he was coming and er we , what had had a big case with birds in and the lads who were doing it looked in this , saw the reflection and shh he 's coming . |
| 27 | When the votes were announced it became clear that by far the greater number of the new members were on the ‘ progressive ’ wing of the Church . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't want to criticise the officials and we have to abide by what they say , but from where we were sitting it looked like a strange decision . ’ |
| 29 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 30 | Philip Holmes is keeping it topped up with water during the drought conditions . |