Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 2 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 3 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 4 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 5 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 6 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 7 | The formal support came from the Signet Office , which had been given definite shape in the fifteenth century . |
| 8 | The resolution , which had been given provisional approval on Tuesday night , declared the Congress 's support for fundamental economic reform and pledged there would not be a return to the Communist administrative-command system . |
| 9 | A United States bill prolonging the provisions of the US aid and development programme known as the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) which had been given legislative expression in the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983 [ see pp. 31565-71 ; 32622 ; 33849-50 ] was passed by President Bush on Aug. 20 , 1990 . |
| 10 | This focus on reconstruction put the CFLN in step with the resistance movements and the CNR , which had been discussing postwar renewal with increasing urgency ever since the American landings in North Africa . |
| 11 | On top of a cavity in the stone in which had been placed contemporary records and coins was placed a plate with the inscription : |
| 12 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 13 | Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim . |
| 14 | As a result , two other trains from the North-East , which had been making additional stops in York at 7.34 and 7.53 , will no longer do so . |
| 15 | On Feb. 9 Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa announced that the security services had uncovered a fundamentalist group which had been compiling false reports on the human rights situation in Egypt to tarnish the country 's reputation abroad . |
| 16 | On Aug. 13 the government published a list of television companies which had been awarded official concessions and were thus entitled to continue broadcasting for the next six years beyond an Aug. 23 deadline . |
| 17 | Its chief executive , Neville Bain , said he is seeing many more inquiries from retailers currently buying from Far Eastern producers , while some continental suppliers which had been undercutting British producers are being forced to increase prices . |
| 18 | So let's look at now you 've been doing I noticed today you 'd been doing differentiating products . |
| 19 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 20 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 21 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 22 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 23 | She had been experiencing considerable feelings of grief about her husband and had been able to cry on occasions . |
| 24 | She had been named regional marketing services manager and expected the job to be confirmed . |
| 25 | Perhaps Ruth had done something especially stunning , as when she had been made chief maid of honour to the school 's May Queen . |
| 26 | She had been working full time in a local factory for the past 8 years and usually enjoyed good relationships with her friends . |
| 27 | She had been noting various titles during Joyce 's discourse ; there was a new book about bats that Edward would want , and one or two things she would like to get hold of herself — the sole perquisite of this trade was a surreptitious early pick of incoming titles before they went on the shelves . |
| 28 | Dr Henry Sacheverell was a High Anglican cleric who had been delivering violent attacks on Dissenters , occasional conformists and Low Churchmen for several years . |
| 29 | On Feb. 16 the Serbian LC further demanded that what it termed " illegal immigrants " from Albania should be repatriated , and that those who had been granted Yugoslavian citizenship should be stripped of their rights if they had acted against the constitutional order . |
| 30 | Nezzar , who had been appointed armed forces Chief of Staff in November 1988 following the previous month 's disturbances [ see p. 36506 ] , was replaced in that post by Brig. |