Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a woman highly committed to her parenting role would be particularly sensitive to an event which threatened her view of herself as a good mother , such as discovering her child had been regularly truanting from school . |
| 2 | He also said US airdrops so far had been grossly lacking in penicillin and anaesthetics vital for surgery . |
| 3 | For the previous ten months London and provincial cities had been bombed night after night ( on 10 May , three thousand Londoners were killed in the raids ) ; although the worst of the blitz was now over , no one knew it then , and at this perilous juncture in the war Eliot had been anxiously writing against time . |
| 4 | Relatives of the men had been anxiously waiting for news . |
| 5 | The family , as the main sufferers under his regime , clearly had every reason to seek his overthrow , and it would hardly be surprising if they had been hopefully dabbling in witchcraft — although this was a standard late-medieval smear . |
| 6 | The family , as the main sufferers under his regime , clearly had every reason to seek his overthrow , and it would hardly be surprising if they had been hopefully dabbling in witchcraft — although this was a standard late-medieval smear . |
| 7 | IT had been a cold spring and the trees had been late coming into leaf , but now to-day in the sunshine they were all misted with green . |