Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 2 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 3 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 4 | When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’ |
| 5 | London had been given no such attention , but The London Society since 1912 had been undertaking work which was brought together in essays edited by Sir Aston Webb ( 1921 ) . |
| 6 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 7 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 8 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 9 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 10 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |
| 11 | Blacks would have been better off now if , after being shipped to America in chains , they had been allowed the same freedom to prosper as willing immigrants were . |
| 12 | If BP boss Sir Peter Walters had been paid the same proportion of sales he would have received a salary of £8.1billion . |
| 13 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 14 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |