Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after being baptized he continued on with Philip , as he observed signs and great miracles taking place , and he was constantly amazed ! |
| 2 | The restaurateur handed over £500 after being told he needed a new gas pipe immediately . |
| 3 | ‘ I had geared my mind after being told I 'd had a son . |
| 4 | To avoid any risk of being noticed he drove his wife 's Volvo station wagon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Before being dumped she had been beaten , stripped and then had petrol poured over her body and was set on fire . |
| 7 | In her haste to be gone she stuffed Dotty Blundell 's brassière into the pocket of her overalls . |
| 8 | and the whole band saw got ta to be resharpened he said and they go to a place in |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Without waiting to be invited he sat down beside her and crossed his legs , the trousers riding up almost to his calf . |
| 14 | Her mother never knew this , though , and because she had agreed to accept that the words ‘ action stations ’ meant that there was an urgent and valid reason for the conversation to be terminated she felt no sense of rejection . |
| 15 | Ramprakash has long been known to have a short fuse but after a year in the England set-up , it was to be hoped he had matured . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Defoe considered it to be manufacturing which conferred this " blessing " on a vicinity . |
| 18 | There is no spider to be seen it had of course retreated to the darkest corner it could find again . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | James Stephens [ q.v. ] wrote that ‘ when something had to be done he did it , and entirely disregarded logic or economics or force . ’ |
| 21 | When the conversation deserved to be punctuated she threw back her head and gave a perfectly proportioned peal of carefully modulated laughter . |
| 22 | A formula would have to be developed which took account of these differences . |
| 23 | He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House . |
| 24 | As he waited for it to be answered he drummed lightly on the desk top . |
| 25 | Yet for deaf people the isolation could well be more serious in integrated environments if such a policy change were to be effected which allowed this alignment . |
| 26 | Refrigeration was in its infancy , so that perishable goods just had to be sold which meant that prices were gradually reduced in the hour or so before closing time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So I phone Automec to be told they had n't heard of Their product causing any such problem and as silicone is a lubricant , it would not have any adverse effect on rubber . |
| 29 | And somehow she did n't need to be told they had arrived . |
| 30 | It remains to be told who played hoax , and why . |