Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | competition I entered was win a thousand pounds worth of Air Miles . |
| 2 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 3 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 4 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 5 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 6 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
| 7 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 8 | What I did was prepare a supplementary form to the one that we had at the management team meeting |
| 9 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 10 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 11 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
| 12 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 13 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 14 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 15 | I had been promised a gripping afternoon 's shoot in the Locarno Gents ( where the original play was entirely set ) . |
| 16 | I had been allocated an efficient back-up team from the Civil Service : Jane Benham ( promoted near the end and replaced by Martin Howarth ) , Michael Phipps and Jenny Bacon , all of whom impressed me with their loyalty to me and their diplomatic skills . |
| 17 | When my marriage ended three years earlier I had been left an emotional pulp . |
| 18 | I know , sir , all I wanted was to wish an old hero a happy birthday . |
| 19 | Here the buildings were disfigured almost beyond recognition ; some had fallen into the street while others leaned outwards , a hopeless thoroughfare of broken concrete , stones , weeds and pillaged furniture across which had been built a low barricade made of chairs , doors and broken tables . |
| 20 | Giovanna 's husband acquired a long garden cane , which had been supporting a tottering mallow , and with it established the depth . |
| 21 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 22 | So if you 'd been given a free choice , you would n't have given your sweets to your brother , would you ? |
| 23 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |
| 24 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 25 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |
| 26 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 27 | Just for a second there , she 'd been uncovering a softer , more human side to the man . |
| 28 | As soon as she 'd entered the hotel she 'd been handed a white envelope containing a fax message . |
| 29 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 30 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |