Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married . |
| 2 | It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies . |
| 3 | I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him . |
| 4 | The bones released from the scats as they decayed were washed down this gully , and this resulted in the separation of two distinct bone assemblages : the one remaining at the top of the hill consisted of about 60 per cent dental and jaw fragments while the one washing down the hill consisted of more than 70 per cent vertebrae . |
| 5 | One of them had been blown up four times , minesweeping during the First World War , and in consequence had a chronic twitch . |
| 6 | The invitations to the party had been sent out ten days ago . |
| 7 | She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street . |
| 8 | The following story concerns the sighting of a Deltic seen clearly entering Hadley Wood South tunnel , bearing the number 55020 Nimbus , even though the locomotive had been cut up seven months previously . |
| 9 | In fact , she had been thinking along those lines herself . |
| 10 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 11 | On Saturday , he had been tied up all day in the stable , but had taken a walk round the Broad over the lunch hour . |
| 12 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 15 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 16 | Civilian patients had been turned out three days earlier , as the hospital prepared to receive wounded from the Eastern theatre of war . |
| 17 | But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here . |
| 18 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 19 | She was horrified ; not only because she could see how Beth had thoroughly exhausted herself , but because she had been taken on two weeks ago by Mr Miller , who had told her categorically , ‘ I do n't want Mrs Miller tackling any of the heavier domestic tasks , you understand ? |
| 20 | Reports say material has been seized by police , but Detective Superintendent Mike Hames , head of the squad , said no decision had been taken on any police action . |
| 21 | ‘ The head of our company is most displeased with Mr Goode and me , ’ Cave said in June , talking on the telephone to an Iranian who was unenthusiastic about weapons prices that had been marked up 300 percent ; ‘ He said if they do n't want to deal , break it off . ’ |
| 22 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |
| 23 | Last December , Congress charged that money set aside for cleaning up several of the 400 ‘ top-priority ’ dumps had been held up last autumn so as not to benefit local Democratic officeholders , who were fighting off Republican challengers in the November elections . |
| 24 | When she had finished , her whole body throbbed , ached , was raw , as if she had been cutting up small pieces of herself . |
| 25 | Eventually all was well , pockets complete , only for her to find that she had been cutting out these pocket linings in her already prepared garment lining ! ! |
| 26 | In France the direction des consulats et des affaires commerciales which had been set up some years earlier was reorganised in 1882 . |
| 27 | We just thought we 'd better come and explain what had been going on last night . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Ought we to try to get away ? ’ whispered Snodgrass , whose mind had been going along similar paths . |
| 29 | But his solicitor Geoff Cardwell said Thompson had been worried about a man who had been carrying out some work for his ex-wife . |
| 30 | On looking more closely , we discovered that in one corner of the house , where the Electricity Authority had been carrying out some repair work , the pipe insulation had n't been replaced . |