Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | knowledge of dolphins I found was based almost entirely on captive animals . |
| 2 | He was trusted , according to opinion polls , rather more in Western Europe than his American counterpart , and the regime he headed was seen as more seriously committed to peace and disarmament . |
| 3 | er I went in the office and he said er I 'd been stood there about twenty minutes at the window and everybody was flitting around like a bee from flower to flower and they just left me stood there , so I never said anything , go on the back |
| 4 | There was a knock on the door , and when I said " Come in " the middle-aged woman who 'd been treated so rudely by Lennis in the morning appeared hesitantly . |
| 5 | He 'd been gone so long , without a word to her on his whereabouts , and now he was back and wanting to celebrate ! |
| 6 | But she felt curiously light-headed , detached , as if she 'd been pushed too far , and her brain had temporarily given up the struggle to cope with this Alice in Wonderland situation . |
| 7 | The taxi driver helped him upstairs ; he 'd been tipped most generously . |
| 8 | Mr Lee stood firmly by the decisions that had been taken in collaboration with members of the RSSPCC , who had been involved from the beginning in the disclosure work with the eight W children who 'd been taken away then . |
| 9 | Shortage of newsprint was another link , and I was constantly in touch with Singapore , London and Calcutta about supplies , which when they came were divided as fairly as possible between ourselves and the independent newspapers . |
| 10 | A professional designer , Jean Bayle , with a track record for breathing new life into tired titles , was hired but the changes he favoured were deemed rather too radical and , in the end — as is often the case on Le Monde where the staff hold a significant stake in the company — the consensus view prevailed . |
| 11 | And Ray er Mr from Nottingham says , I used to work for a circus , I 'm an animal lover and all the animals I saw were treated very well . |
| 12 | He 's just not there any longer ; and it 's as if he 'd never been , for none of the things he said are heard any longer either ; it 's a bad dream , and the Leader does n't have to sleep through it any more . ’ |
| 13 | Most crossed just for the experience of a freedom they had been denied so long . |
| 14 | The rubble had been cleared away long ago , and a line drawn between houses that were lived in , and blank space . |
| 15 | The stone had been raised high just as Wexford was raising it now but brought down that time on the back of Hatton 's skull . |
| 16 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 17 | The threat led to the resignation on March 4 of the head of the Special Force for the Fight against Drug Traffickers ( FELCN ) , Col. Faustino Rico Toro ( who had been appointed as recently as Feb. 26 ) , and was followed by that of the Interior Minister , Capobianco Ribera , after accusations in the US press of his association with drug trafficking [ see p. 38094-95 ] . |
| 18 | ‘ It would n't have happened if the prison had been run more efficiently , ’ Fairham snapped . |
| 19 | Most of the building was old and was covered in dark green ivy , but some of it had been built more recently and was of grim , black stone . |
| 20 | What had happened was that the wall had been built much later and from a higher ground level . |
| 21 | Only one bastion of prime importance to the city 's defence had been lost so far : Douaumont . |
| 22 | For although Cabezón 's compositions first appeared in print in Luys Venegas de Henestrosa 's Libro de cifra ( figure notation ) nueva para tecla ( keyboard ) , harpay vihuela ( Alcala , 1557 ) , and the rest of them only in the Obras de musica published posthumously by his son ( Madrid , 1578 ) , no doubt many had been written as early as the lute pieces in Narvaez 's Delphin de musica ( Valladolid , 1538 ) . |
| 23 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 24 | Julia was aware of something which had been planned beforehand yet it did not discomfort her . |
| 25 | How she loathed this web that had been spun so swiftly round her . |
| 26 | Nothing was said , but she had the impression it had been examined almost as closely as Maurice 's . |
| 27 | Incomes policy had been applied more rigorously in the state sector there too , and the winter of 1969–70 saw the novel spectacle of group after group of public sector workers rejecting settlements negotiated by their leaderships . |
| 28 | How times changed — now someone would express their concern ove whether the thing had been cooked long enough to annihilate any salmonella ! |
| 29 | Francesca 's much publicized affair with Senator Michael O'Brien was the reason that she had been sent home rather early from a tour of duty in the Embassy in Washington , over a year previously , just before he had met her in London . |
| 30 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |