Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [be] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But despite the er , rather individualistic nature of the context used there 's enough flexibility and openness within the subject content , to say . |
| 2 | That is why I can not find it within me to sympathise with the poor punters who once besieged the offices of the Daily Mail demanding their £35,000 in prize money only to find that when the music stopped there were more winners than chairs for them to sit upon . |
| 3 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 4 | The survey was conducted outside London , but a comparable investigation within the capital found there were more complaints about prices , beer quality and the general character of the pub , but fewer about service . |
| 5 | We searched for examples around the country but found there were few operating in the National Health Service . |
| 6 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 7 | all you told me was that Miss was retiring . |
| 8 | What he told me was that M. Chaillot adored the company of women and would wish to charm me . |
| 9 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 10 | That he obviously imagined she was some kind of flighty , sex-starved man-eater ? |
| 11 | The servants believed there was some blight on Iskandara and her mother — they had gossiped across Alexandra in her nursery when she was supposedly too small to understand — some blight so that only daughters were born to these remarkable women who craved sons , and lone daughters at that , born late , at a time when most women were coming to an end of their childbearing . |
| 12 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 13 | But he added there was some evidence suggesting it did not arrive before Moscow issued its condemnation of the US action . |
| 14 | If she stood firm , there was nothing he could do , she told herself — though whether she believed it was another matter . |
| 15 | He ha scored ten in thirty minutes before he was hit on the temple of his helmet by a ball from Marshall that lifted sharply ; with his vision blurred it was several days before he left hospital , and he did not play again all season . |
| 16 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 17 | I think I just assumed he was that sort of person and night-time did that to him . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm surprised at yer. , mate , I never reckoned you was that kind of bloke . |
| 19 | Hagans solicitor augued there was little evidence for the earlier rape charge , he should be granted bail . |
| 20 | In THE CITY THAT TIME FORGOT there is little hip hop , house or club culture . |
| 21 | All was well at first , but when she calved it was another story . |
| 22 | At the end of my talk the chairman of the session , John G. Taylor from Kings College , London , claimed it was all nonsense . |
| 23 | Fringe , flat out at racing pace , had a wildness about him I could n't really control and I guessed it was that quality which won him races . |
| 24 | I also played with the idea that what afflicted me was some kind of strabismus of the psyche . |
| 25 | I am quite convinced that everyone we met there was each other 's cousin . |
| 26 | I was over-qualified and signing on and I realised there was more money to be made taking my clothes off ’ . |
| 27 | I was over-qualified and signing on and I realised there was more money to be made taking my clothes off . |
| 28 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |
| 29 | The move came as a new report revealed there are enough vehicles in London to fill a 75-lane M25 . |
| 30 | After I got there was this lorry chasing me , and I was always running |