Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secret we used was to make the correct article immediately follow after one with four legs or corners . |
| 2 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 3 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 4 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 5 | She was just wondering if she 'd been given the wrong one when she realised that the door was n't locked . |
| 6 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
| 7 | I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community |
| 8 | Well , it had come about while he 'd been receiving the wet canvas treatment . |
| 9 | He 'd been fearing the worst but , no , the boy undressed him , and there it was standing up proudly , machinery in full working order once again , ready for action . |
| 10 | I stared into the mist until my eyes hurt , ahead , off both quarters , in case we 'd been carried the other way , even astern . |
| 11 | Only they 'd been told the wrong grave . |
| 12 | She 'd been set the huge task by Christian Aid on behalf of a family who fled to the camp from neighbouring war-torn Mozambique . |
| 13 | ( Anyone would think you 'd been offered the leading role in the latest Spielberg epic , for God 's sake , you 're supposed to be depressed or something . |
| 14 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 15 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 16 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 17 | But Citrine and Self defended their policy against critics , whom they felt were ignoring the new and differing requirements of larger organisations . |
| 18 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 19 | All he did was to invoke the dubious metaphysical principle of " sufficient reason " in order to ensure the existential uniqueness of his monads and secure a basis for a meaningful distinction between numerical and qualitative identity . |
| 20 | Sjahrir later acquired the reputation of a resistance leader , but although he refused to collaborate with the Japanese all he really did was to monitor the declining fortunes of Japan on his illegal radio . |
| 21 | All the constant changing did was to make the next scene you were doing contradict the one you did yesterday , so all that had to be changed . |
| 22 | The last thing I did was to fire the blazing stream of petrol at the buck still sitting stuffed and dead and oozing blood in the forefront of the Grounds . |
| 23 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 24 | In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it . |
| 25 | A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson . |
| 26 | He had been taught the hard lesson that you eat where there is food , because food is sustenance and without it there is failure and collapse . |
| 27 | Charlemagne thought that the Byzantine emperors had been denied the Roman empire , which had been conferred on him instead ( 800 ) , because they had shown the pride of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , not least in allowing images of themselves to be idolatrously venerated . |
| 28 | The men had been denied the agreed consultation period . |
| 29 | However , now that the papers had been reporting the recent news of her husband 's return from Australia — apparently determined to impress his name and tough personality on the City of London — it was obviously about time that she came to a decision about her future . |
| 30 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |