Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [coord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had occurred was precisely the sort of ‘ semi-hysterical outburst of militancy ’ which McCann had criticised , and far from exposing and isolating the Nationalists , an informal united front had been struck up and the politicians were being allowed to clamber onto the DHAC 's bandwagon . |
| 2 | The Court had no knowledge of the case stated that had been struck out and the Crown 's case stated had duly proceeded . |
| 3 | In some of the other houses the stable was now a double garage , but in this one it had been blocked in and a window installed . |
| 4 | The buttons had been ripped off and the pockets torn open , but it kept me warm . |
| 5 | Mr Rampton said the text showed that ‘ subterfuge ’ had been crossed out and the word ‘ silence ’ substituted . |
| 6 | The front door and the vestibule door had been blown off and the heavy mahogany coat stand lay across the foot of the stairs . |
| 7 | All pretence that the paper ever belonged to MacQuillan personally had been given up and the title transferred to a newly formed company within the MacQuillan empire . |
| 8 | On the environment the summit noted that the areas of scientific uncertainty had been narrowed down and a response could no longer be delayed , and adopted a declaration on guidelines for future action . |
| 9 | The wooden cross had been dug up and a new large memorial stone had been erected in its place . |
| 10 | His skull had been kicked in and the dark blood seeped out , mingling with the grey sludge of his brains . |
| 11 | push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away |
| 12 | It is true that in the case of Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran Slade LJ attached considerable significance to the fact that the land there in question had been fenced off and the gate locked , but the position it seems to me is quite different in a metropolitan context such as one finds in Brighton . |
| 13 | ‘ If the business had been shut down and the premises sold , what would have happened to you ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The kitchen drawer had been pulled out and the coal bucket had been overturned . |
| 15 | The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame . |
| 16 | Forays had been made at night ; scaffolding had been torn down and a few workers employed in building Carewscourt had been killed . |
| 17 | The next day County issued a press release announcing that 48.9% of the shares had been taken up and the rest sold on the market . |
| 18 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 19 | The original loft had been taken down and the balustrade removed to the west end to form a gallery . |
| 20 | ‘ But it also meant a lot of brances had been washed down and the river has a lot of snags anyway . |
| 21 | It would be a great shame to see shoppers travel from miles to the jewel in the crown of Darlington only to discover all the spaces in one of the town 's most central car parks had been snapped up and no more were available because of a council and a car park company going round in circles . |
| 22 | The old open fireplace had been boarded in and a single gas fire now burned in the hearth . |
| 23 | Examination of the records of prenatal biochemical screening for these two cases showed that biochemical screening had been carried out and a report of an increased risk of Down 's syndrome issued before the ultrasonography was done . |
| 24 | Two more of the nave lights had been switched on but the church was still dim compared with the harsh glare of the arc lights trained on the scene and it took him a minute to locate Father Barnes , a dark shape at the end of the first row of chairs under the pulpit . |
| 25 | Roscarrock could ill afford it , but short of putting the child out in the street he had little alternative ; so they struck hands on it , and that evening , when the money had been paid over and a receipt obtained , Tristram returned home in the company of Jennifer Gristy to be greeted by his father 's stinging sarcasm . |
| 26 | Soon the stern anchor had been paid out and the Ariadne was back to where she had started , the buoy nudging the midships port side . |
| 27 | In the wall opposite the throne , screen doors had been drawn back and a blaze of early morning sunlight flooded into the chamber from the flagstoned courtyard , causing the emperor 's gem-encrusted crown of beaten gold to flash and glitter with every movement of his head . |
| 28 | And er this divided this street into two but at probably a number of years before , it had been tunnelled in and the top part of the street was called Street and there , there was a slight hill run down to . |
| 29 | A framework for governing the colonies across the Atlantic had been set up but the British government of the early eighteenth century was not at all energetic in handling problems inside Britain and was most unlikely to exert itself about things further afield . |
| 30 | Another two bins had been knocked over and a crumpled figure lay motionless between them , his right arm extended as though trying to reach out for something . |