Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike said that the chemicals involved were mobile as well as being potent and their ability is a potential explanation for lack of results in the Council 's study . |
| 2 | If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down . |
| 3 | If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down . |
| 4 | She said she 'd been terrified but somehow managed to keep calm . |
| 5 | Carolyn sat on the bed , which she noticed was low and very soft , and fingered the silk . |
| 6 | The higher proportion of the prison population which had been sentenced to imprisonment for offences triable on indictment meant that the sentences served were longer than before , with a consequent increase in the size of the prison population overall . |
| 7 | She dreaded being immobile and physically dependent , and she certainly felt as if heavy weights were attached to her feet and her legs ; she felt as helpless as if she were buried to her neck in quicksand . |
| 8 | The bathroom — which was lavish even by Mayfair standards — was all glass and cool , muted blues , which had looked lovely when she had put it in , but which she now thought was cold and vaguely forbidding , and as she pulled off her pyjama top , she thought it made her flesh look white and dead . |
| 9 | I made my way carefully down the staircase , intending to sit in the sun at the foot of the wall and drink my tea , but the breeze could find no way there , and the strange , musky smell from the wall where those plants grew was stronger than ever . |
| 10 | The names designated were strange and totally new to her . |
| 11 | The grapes it produced were small and hard , inedible . |
| 12 | and luckily that the , the song that we did was funny and so people enjoyed it , but they did n't understand it and they did n't have a visual image of the artist 's work , so I now have to take erm a couple of pictures , er prints with me if ever were going to read it and we sing those songs but not everybody does , and then they do become excessible you know , they can see , you know , that erm , yes erm if it , if I was going to publish a book of poem I , it would have to be stated that this related to this picture and presumably it 'd have to be , it would be with it , with it |
| 13 | Then we clad and ran off home then we went back mishchifing again we came to a boy and shoved he down in the grass and piched is sweet and then we ran off then I made a apple bom then I chudet it then we went home . |
| 14 | ‘ It was because I could n't stop myself , because I was driven by the need to know if what I 'd felt in Sintra had been real and still existed . |
| 15 | They lay together in the same blue-white room , though this time their lovemaking had been gentler and more familiar , as warmth and exploration of each other 's bodies and hearts had succeeded the glorious frenzy of their first coupling . |
| 16 | Previous theatre work had been tiring but now cine-variety was exhausting . |
| 17 | That should please the farmers — and Iris ; for a couple of weeks or more it had been dry and unusually mild and the land was thirsty . |
| 18 | Edith had been pregnant and alone , the salesman abandoning her when she had told him her condition . |
| 19 | The route from Bordeaux to Bergerac had been straight and fast , and presented her with few problems . |
| 20 | The struggle against such controls was long and hard , and it was not , for example , until the mid twentieth century in England , where the struggle had been early and relatively successful , that the last general form of this kind was abolished , in the theatre . |
| 21 | The truckle-bed had been narrow and hard , and she was profoundly unwilling to surrender herself to sleep . |
| 22 | Police Superintendent John Ashton said Mr Telford , 29 , who is married with three children , had been rational and very calm . |
| 23 | Although she had never said so , his instinct had told him immediately he 'd seen her with Harry that she was in love with the young man — a devastatingly handsome young man — whose manner towards Alice had been affectionate but certainly not lover-like . |
| 24 | Until the end of the seventeenth century her diplomatic contacts with the States of Western Europe had been intermittent and usually unimportant ( see p. 256 ) . |
| 25 | His life had been well-ordered and reasonably happy , he thought , by minding his own business . |
| 26 | At first , this largely involved the search for loop-holes in central government legislation : if , for example , the rules suggested that future grant depended on spending in a particular year , then it was possible with little difficulty to prepare the accounts to show that spending had been higher or lower that year ( whichever was the required answer ) , More important , perhaps , as time went on , it become common for councils and their treasurers to seek new sources of funding which were not covered by the rules or were covered by different rules . |
| 27 | As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so . |
| 28 | Anne had been indignant but secretly glad that he would not go away until she understood how he really felt about her . |
| 29 | As we have seen Kenneth Macpherson had felt that the earlier films had been awful but nevertheless he suspected that ‘ the people got in some dim way the fact that here was something growing under their eyes ’ , that the movies had ‘ a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 30 | If only the clothes had been plainer and more suitable for the vicar 's wife of such a poor parish , ’ Sophia lamented , holding up the lame cocktail dress whose belt Faustina had now taken out into the hall . |