Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EMSA and the DNA probes used were performed exactly as described in [ 14 ] . |
| 2 | If — and it was a megalithic if , but I supposed we should consider every possible option now we were at it — if , in some weird way the Ghost and her voice really did exist , then as soon as she 'd got over her disappointment , she would have to admit she 'd been defeated fair and square , and would just have to honour the deal and flit off back to heaven or wherever it was she lived now . |
| 3 | He 'd been born there and the Burnses had been part of the village for generations . |
| 4 | She was surprised by his hatred sometimes , but then he 'd been born there and grown up , while she was second-generation American . |
| 5 | Since that , we 'd been touring constantly and written about twenty-five songs . |
| 6 | I 'd been mucking around and none of my mates like that . |
| 7 | I mean , even if there had been some war I did believe worth fighting , if I 'd been called up or something , I 'm a coward , I 'm just not physically capable . |
| 8 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 9 | They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down . |
| 10 | I 'd been living away and when I first come back into the area a few of me friends was into it . |
| 11 | He 'd been charged eventually and thrust into a cell for the night ; then , half an hour later , without explanation , given his belt back and told he could go . |
| 12 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 13 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 14 | He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital . |
| 15 | There was one occasion when the addled eggs came in handy for pelting a kid on a motorbike who 'd been riding up and down outside our house all evening and making a terrible noise . |
| 16 | She settled down to wait with a book on caving she found in his bookcase , but after a while she had to acknowledge he 'd been gone longer than she 'd expected . |
| 17 | Ever since we 'd moved to Cornwall I 'd been reading more and more about birds of prey , and by this time I was pretty sure that falconry was the ideal career for me . |
| 18 | Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ? |
| 19 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 20 | She 'd been letting on that she lived in one of those posh houses . |
| 21 | She 'd been set up and she had thought Fernando was so desperate to have her back in his life that he had manipulated the whole thing . |
| 22 | She was on holiday after all , and it certainly seemed as though that was what he 'd been indulging in while waiting for his ladyfriend to return . |
| 23 | He looked up from the papers he 'd been working on and said blandly , ‘ Ah , Luce … |
| 24 | Mansell , who also revealed that he 'd been offered more than twice his wages to go back to Ferrari , added : ‘ Ayrton 's spoiled , always has been — even when he was a kid kart racer . |
| 25 | Amiss decided not to mention the dead bodies he 'd been coming across since he 'd got chummy with Jim Milton . |
| 26 | Next thing we read he 'd been knocked down and killed |
| 27 | If he 'd been thrown in as he was , he 'd have sunk for a bit , and then probably come up again . |
| 28 | ‘ Naturally , it was never admitted they 'd been thrown out because of the investigation . |
| 29 | When he felt brave enough he took off the old pullover and the tracksuit pants that he 'd been sleeping in and started to dress . |
| 30 | She 'd been doing more and more of his work for him . |