Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kinds of errors he made are illustrated by these responses : |
| 2 | The responsibility for the serious incident to which he referred was shared among several water authorities . |
| 3 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 4 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 5 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 6 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 7 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 8 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 9 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 10 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 11 | The touch of his hands on her back that afternoon … she 'd been gripped by such a war of reaction inside her . |
| 12 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 13 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 14 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 15 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 16 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 17 | she 'd been put on that file — ‘ just by mistake ’ , |
| 18 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 19 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 20 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 21 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 22 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 23 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 24 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 25 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 27 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 29 | She 'd been married in that hat . |
| 30 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |