Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 2 | It was the part of Sabbo in Rope ; mind you , I had been offered two leading roles at other reps that could n't give me the vital Equity card — so Sabbo it was . |
| 3 | I had been offered three rehearsals plus some sessions with the singers . |
| 4 | Not for Lexandro those thronged elephantine courtyards and grim vaulted catacombs to which glass cables delivered only a diluted memory of distant sunshine , and where ventilator gargoyles exhaled stale breath which had been refiltered fifty times already . |
| 5 | In my case I almost felt that I was a participant in some workshops which had been filmed ten years earlier . |
| 6 | The young wine , which had been delivered two days earlier from the cellars of a certain Monsieur Chapautier had been identified by Dr Davies , an admirer of fine wine and port from an early age , as having all the signs of a vintage which would mature to perfection by the 1993/94 conference season . |
| 7 | He emerged from a cage which had been suspended 25 feet down a shaft at Markham Main colliery , near Doncaster , after handing police a shotgun . |
| 8 | Earlier , there were bitter exchanges when Labour 's Alun Michael ( Cardiff S and Penarth ) demanded to know why the Government had not built a single one of 65 secure units for juvenile offenders which had been promised two years ago . |
| 9 | I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter , |
| 10 | One lady , he claimed , almost lost her marbles when the word she picked out of the hat was the same as the one she 'd been handed 27,000 feet up a Himalayan mountain in her backpack and bivouac , far-out , cool-man days . |
| 11 | Another , a regular visitor to the Undercroft , presented a model of the King of Siam 's Royal barge , which she had been given 40 years ago , after service in our Bangkok Embassy . |
| 12 | She had been stabbed 50 times . |
| 13 | She had been born ten years ago . |
| 14 | She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son . |
| 15 | No. 30 Mouncy Street was his first stop because he knew already from his own observation that here lived a truly old inhabitant ; Mary Adelaide Flock , who had been born twenty years before Queen Victoria died and did not count herself old yet . |
| 16 | We had been divided four to a room , with a Corporal in each and with the different nationalities split so that no nationalistic factions developed . |
| 17 | They 'd been shot 21 times . |
| 18 | Only last april they 'd been told three hundred and fifty jobs were being axed — now comes todays announcement of more . |
| 19 | His assailants next told him that they had been given three pounds each ‘ to do you up tonight ’ by the ‘ drug squad ’ detective with whom he was already unpleasantly familiar . |
| 20 | They had been tossed four feet away . |
| 21 | The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years . |
| 22 | They had been stabbed 70 times . |
| 23 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 24 | This year alone he 'd been arrested twenty three times . |
| 25 | The transistor transformed the portable radio , cul-minating in the spectacle — bizarre if it had been witnessed 20 years earlier — of people going around with earphones and Walkmans . |
| 26 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 27 | If its home clock said the time was 12.00 a.m. but the sun at the release site indicated 6.00 a.m. the pigeon would infer it had been moved one quarter of the way round the world to the west . |
| 28 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that when the shadow Chancellor recently visited the James Halstead group in my constituency — it employs more than 400 people and is successful in making good profits — he expressed satisfaction to the local media that most of the technology that he saw was British-made and that most of it had been made 20 miles from Bury ? |
| 29 | It had been decided three people might overwhelm the man they were calling on . |
| 30 | ‘ If it had been called hundred and twelve we 'd have had our own lavatory . ’ |