Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 2 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 3 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 4 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 5 | With the others I felt … on the same side as them because they were saying that they had been tortured themselves in a way , had been turned into animals , tools . |
| 6 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |
| 7 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |