Example sentences of "[det] be [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This being refused he applied to the Board , and on 5 February 1992 the Board granted special leave . |
| 2 | They had total-stumped some US Cav in the Painted Desert , and some were saying they had scratched a Maniax Chapter in the Rockies . |
| 3 | A bit of placenta stayed in the womb and when this was discovered I had to go back to hospital for a D & C. From then on my periods became a nightmare . |
| 4 | Moreover , when this was done it led back to the study of linear Diophantine equations , a problem that Smith had already solved ( Box A ) . |
| 5 | Once this was done he set about his task , quite happy to be in no other company that that of the two greys . |
| 6 | After this was refused it proposed a merger with the Mid Essex Hospital Trust with which it works closely . |
| 7 | This was to ensure they had the correct commitment and were prepared to organize for quality . |
| 8 | When this was accomplished she took the reins and walked the old horse down the street . |
| 9 | Now that so much was happening I felt better . |
| 10 | Like Wiegand , they would all be thinking he had tried to kill Tolonen , but that was n't what he 'd wanted . |
| 11 | How come , how long I mean me and Rusty and that be cleaned it did n't we ? |
| 12 | That is to say they operated in such a way as either to confirm the proposed design ( by acting within the analysis phase ) or to generate the engineering information for production ( by acting within the scheming phase ) . |
| 13 | That is to say they constructed a picture of the world , a picture which one oneself no longer believes to be viable . |
| 14 | That is to say it had been made in England between the years 1700 and 1840 . |
| 15 | That is to say you bought a word processor , and all it did was allow you to type words onto the screen — that and some formatting . |
| 16 | Neither is saying what went wrong . |
| 17 | When that was discovered she had been thrown out on the streets , and subsequently forced to live in a brothel . |
| 18 | When that was rejected he argued in favour of his old plan of travelling on foot by the secret paths ; there were so many footpaths they could not all be watched and there was a chance that if they came upon outlaws there would be no more than one or two . |
| 19 | I ordered two coffees with rum at the bar — Watson 's Trawlerman 's rum is the best , if you can get it , as drunk by Scottish fishermen — and while that was coming I emptied the pockets of my parka . |
| 20 | That was to keep it aired . |
| 21 | That was to keep it aired you see ? |
| 22 | Perhaps that was overstating what had happened out there , but , for first time in months , she 'd suddenly felt at the mercy of the audience , aware of every whisper , every stare . |
| 23 | and fifty pounds of that was loaned which had to be repaid at the end of the course in sixteen equal quarterly instalments . |