Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitra had been considered the leading rival to Ramos for Aquino 's endorsement . |
| 2 | Britta had been watching the other woman — the one the Doctor called Benny — when the screens had come on . |
| 3 | John Rodwell , a specialist inspector from the Health and Safety Executive , said it appeared Mr Eaton had been using the burning torch to cut at the edge of the slot at one end of the pipe trying to open it and hot gases could have caused it to become dislodged and fall . |
| 4 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 5 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 6 | Yassir Arafat and Kemal Jumblatt had been summoned the previous winter to Damascus , where they told Assad that they were winning the war and wished to move all the way into the Christian heartland . |
| 7 | Forestry interests and landowners in Scotland had been lobbying the Scottish Office to draw the teeth of the NCC because it had been too successful in defending the uplands from conifers . |
| 8 | Omagh boss Paul Kee had been chasing the tall Limerick central defender for more than a fortnight . |
| 9 | Malekith had been shown the secret trade routes of the Dwarfs during his period as Bel Shanaar 's ambassador , and he now used that knowledge to his own benefit . |
| 10 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 11 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |
| 12 | They have a superior front five , although the Pontypridd lock Mark Rowley had been getting the better of several big names lately and will relish the prospect of testing himself against Tony Copsey . |
| 13 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 14 | Keeling had been arrested the previous day and put on a flight to London . |
| 15 | However , the Court of Apothecaries took the view that Miller had been paying the increased rent for some years and declined to sanction the proposed allowance . |
| 16 | Maxim had been reassembling the cleaned and dried gun . |
| 17 | Rauschning also began to realise that Gauleiter Forster had been using the economic reforms initiated by the Party in 1933 to line his own pocket . |
| 18 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |
| 19 | A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson . |
| 20 | If Patrick had been expecting the small man to head up Grafton Street , then he was disappointed ; the guide continued on past the bottom of the crowded street , passing Yeates & Son , the opticians with the giant spectacle frame hanging outside the shop , heading into Nassau Street and then he turned right into Dawson Street . |
| 21 | If BP boss Sir Peter Walters had been paid the same proportion of sales he would have received a salary of £8.1billion . |
| 22 | Mohammed Sahnoun , a former Algerian permanent representative at the UN who in late April had been appointed the special representative in Somalia of the UN Secretary-General , arrived in Somalia on the weekend of May 9-10 . |
| 23 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 24 | Top and Elton John lookalike pulls the crowds on the Omnibus stand ; centre Polygon 's editorial director Marion Sinclair left and publicist Kathryn Maclean were delighted to hear that Polygon had been named the 1993 Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year . |
| 25 | For while Creggan had been attacking the hooded crow he had been watched and now he in his turn was being stooped upon . |
| 26 | Cissie had been stripping the excess leaves from the stems of a bunch of slender white tulips , which she then lovingly arranged one by one in an earthenware vase . |
| 27 | Sir Kenneth invited him round for tea and by the time he had left Andrews had been given the huge task of designing a fulllength ballet involving set changes and 300 costumes . |
| 28 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |