Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described being taken over the years to see his sick , and finally dying and almost certainly innocent father in another prison . |
| 2 | Saw three fellows at the end of Royce Wood , who I found were laying out the plan for an iron rail way from Manchester to London . |
| 3 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |
| 5 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 6 | Another lesson Computercraft learned was to sort out the politics before getting started . |
| 7 | They were then made a sign in the store , and if the job came up again , all you did was to go down the store , and it was a one-off exercise , instead of travelling back and forwards to get a particular tool , erm er that was all eliminated . |
| 8 | In Zambia aircraft accident investigation was the responsibility of the Director of Civil Aviation and the official who occupied that position had been appointed only the day before the accident occurred . |
| 9 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 10 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 11 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 12 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 13 | She said how the old people 's sitting room had been livened up when a few pictures of old Barnsley had been hung on the walls . |
| 14 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 15 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 16 | The company policy had been to speed up the line and the rate of production . |
| 17 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 18 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 19 | Despite excellent character-witnesses , among them Elizabeth , who delivered an impassioned plea on her maid 's behalf , Justine stood condemned by one piece of circumstantial evidence : a locket containing a picture of her late mistress had been found in her belongings — a locket which the child William had been wearing only the day before the murder . |
| 20 | thank you and we see here that erm one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds had been claimed , that one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds thirteen had been received so the insurance cover had paid |
| 21 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 22 | We did have an argument that afternoon ; he came on to the set clearly hungover — he had been drinking heavily the day before , disrupting things , disturbing the atmosphere . |
| 23 | The court was told he had used cocaine and heroin and he also admitted that in addition to a cocktail of drugs he had been drinking heavily the evening before the incident . |
| 24 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 25 | The car had been chased up the M1 as far as Newport Pagnall by two Bedfordshire police patrol cars . |
| 26 | These were organic transplants which had been rejected yet the patient lived . |
| 27 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 28 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 29 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 30 | This counts as if you had been earning exactly the amount of the LEL . |