Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How times changed — now someone would express their concern ove whether the thing had been cooked long enough to annihilate any salmonella ! |
| 2 | While fitting the rear offside wheel back on to Miss Clinton 's car , Jenny 's daddy had been called away suddenly to see to a tractor that had broken down on Farmer Pullen 's farm . |
| 3 | Before the land bridge to North America emerged above the waters once again they had been isolated long enough to evolve as New World monkeys whose modern descendants walk on all fours and many of whom have prehensile tails . |
| 4 | Without exception , their hair had been cropped short enough to reveal the scars underneath . |
| 5 | Would he reappear perhaps like Edwin Drood himself might have done if Mr Dickens had been spared long enough to conclude it ? |