Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He himself had been brought up first to obey orders and then to give them in the expectation of instant compliance , and was unacquainted with more complex patterns of relationship . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd have been delighted for you to have been squeezed in next to me . |
| 3 | There , among the junk mail and bills delivered while she had been riding out first lot , was an envelope written in a careful , neat hand . |
| 4 | It comprised some of the very best of the Black-Earth belt , but after the Revolution it had been trampled over first by the Red Army advancing on Kiev from Kharkov , then by the German 20th Army Corps , and later by ruthless and bloodthirsty ‘ Green ’ armies . |
| 5 | We just thought we 'd better come and explain what had been going on last night . ’ |