Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Justice Otton was told they regretted helping to give currency to the allegation that John Major and Miss Latimer had been conducting an adulterous relationship . |
| 2 | Although Bernice had been dealt a few rough cards in her life , she still thought that there could be something better . |
| 3 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 4 | To the Ryans and their like , Anthony had been given a magnificent send-off . |
| 5 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 6 | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Berdennikov said on Sept. 14 that the Soviet Union and later Russia had been violating a 1972 treaty banning germ warfare , at least until March 1992 . |
| 7 | England had been given a pre-match boost by World Cup rivals Holland 's failure to beat group two leaders Norway in Rotterdam . |
| 8 | On May 7 the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry claimed that Armenia had been waging an undeclared war on Azerbaijan , and that in over 300 cross-border attacks since the beginning of the year a total of 61 Azerbaijanis had been killed . |
| 9 | Matthew had been making a detailed fire-protection plan for the acres which Fairfax had wanted to replant or afforest . |
| 10 | Bert Rafferty had been given an unexpected day off . |
| 11 | Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier . |
| 12 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 13 | The opposition Conservative Party elected Kaci Kullmann Five as party chair and John Bernander as deputy on April 20 ; Anne Enger Lahnstein had been chosen a few weeks earlier as leader of the agrarian Centre Party . |
| 14 | Mr Butler had been taking a collection-box home when he was attacked on the Tube , kicked in the face , kneed in the stomach , had his head banged against a door and almost strangled . |
| 15 | Amy , 42 , took a different tack when she found that Joe had been leading a double life for 18 months , holed up with a ravishing ex-model 15 years her junior while she believed he was ‘ opening up new markets ’ in Middle Europe . |
| 16 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 17 | The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick . |
| 18 | Newall had been staging a partial hunger strike — refusing all solid food — in protest at what his lawyer claimed were ‘ inhuman ’ conditions . |
| 19 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 20 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 21 | Their G P Felix Lusman had been using a faulty technique for the past five years . |
| 22 | All the while , Julian Bailey had been maintaining a strong , gritty pursuit with the Nissan , and he was only 7secs behind Baldi 's second-placed Mercedes when he made his fuel stop early on lap 31 . |
| 23 | She and Implexion had been conducting a casual affair for years ; she knew him better than anyone . |
| 24 | Large domestic pots at West Stow had been given a thin coating of day on the outside after they had been fired ; this layer is usually slightly reddened as a result of partial firing ( West 1985 , p. 129 ) . |
| 25 | The initial aim in forming the DUP had been to create a united unionist party which would be as orthodox in its constitutional position as the Unionist Party of Craig and Brookeborough . |
| 26 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
| 27 | At the end of October , we learned that WGEC had been awarded a major new contract with BP . |
| 28 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 29 | Haroun had been given a small separate room at the end of the hut , as befitted a VIP . |
| 30 | While , however , Admiral Hawke had been keeping a vigilant eye on Brest , Admiral Edward Boscawen had been busily patrolling off Toulon . |