Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the whole band saw got ta to be resharpened he said and they go to a place in |
| 2 | Defoe considered it to be manufacturing which conferred this " blessing " on a vicinity . |
| 3 | To achieve this aim a curriculum should be formulated which took into account the needs and expectations of society , ensured continuity of the education process throughout the years of compulsory schooling and the importance of the coherence of subject disciplines . |
| 4 | First of all , Marx 's theory of historical materialism was one of the very first theories of society and change to be formulated which provided a historical overview and , at the same time , attempted to mesh together the workings of social , economic and political phenomena . |
| 5 | Each time the boy went home and the wheat free diet could not be sustained he suffered a decline in his growth curve . |
| 6 | During this time , many offerings were made to MAIA , the goddess of the dead , to assuage her , and a constant din of drumming was to be heard which frightened off her attendant GHOSTS . |
| 7 | He began to descend , and in confidence that he was now too far from Parfois to be heard he abandoned his caution and swung his way down the cliff with frantic haste . |
| 8 | When the conversation deserved to be punctuated she threw back her head and gave a perfectly proportioned peal of carefully modulated laughter . |
| 9 | Before that could be arranged she took very poorly one day and an ambulance had to be sent for — luckily one of the nearby farms had a telephone . |
| 10 | A formula would have to be developed which took account of these differences . |
| 11 | And if so why should it be supposed they had adventured into the forest rather than eastward towards the corn lands and the nearer towns , and the coast ? |
| 12 | Even when she was travelling she would be checking she had all the facts at her finger tips for her next assignment . |
| 13 | These have all featured in GH and we 'll be keeping you informed of any new developments . |
| 14 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 15 | I 'd go for a night out and I 'd be praying they did n't take off my trousers . |
| 16 | At last finding someone to move so their love did n't have to be separated they started to do things which the middle-aged woman in the tweed suit would not have approved of , luckily for her she had dismounted earlier . |
| 17 | Thus comparisons could be made which revealed progress in some areas and decline in others . |
| 18 | After 30 minutes of flight time , Dick felt comfortable enough to join up on our wing so a picture could be made which commemorated the moment . |
| 19 | If keyboarding of the two texts could not be run in parallel , some other arrangement would have to be adopted which allowed the overlapping of phases . |
| 20 | However , Schoenbaum points out the superficial level of social change pointing to the ‘ schizophrenia ’ of Nazi society — ; where it ‘ could be seen everything had changed and nothing had changed . ’ |
| 21 | There is no spider to be seen it had of course retreated to the darkest corner it could find again . |
| 22 | Denega , of Walnut Road , Torquay , was jailed for four months after admitting causing work to be done which resulted in changing or demolishing a listed building . |
| 23 | On the sovereignty issue Ordóñez declared that " the colony of Gibraltar belongs to the past " , while Hurd reiterated that nothing could be done which went against the will of the Gibraltarians . |
| 24 | James Stephens [ q.v. ] wrote that ‘ when something had to be done he did it , and entirely disregarded logic or economics or force . ’ |
| 25 | Having asked that she should not be disturbed she had taken the overdose in her room . |
| 26 | Whether I pay or go free , whatever the cost , I will not let it be said I killed a decent man to keep him from accusing me . |
| 27 | Do n't let it be said I kept you here against your will . ’ |
| 28 | Well , never let it be said I disappointed a lady ! ’ he growled , coming to his knees and reaching for her . |
| 29 | It can be said I wanted to taste other joys which were available in life before the inevitable disaster . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't let it be said I stopped anyone working — especially Robyn Drew , ’ he added sarcastically . |