Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [adv] [art] " 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 | The man escaped from Coney Hill mental hospital in Gloucester , where he 'd been sent exactly a year ago after being convicted of the assault of a three year old girl in the city . |
| 4 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |
| 5 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |
| 7 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |
| 8 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Time to slow down — I 'd been booked here a couple of years earlier . |
| 11 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 12 | It seems the piece they took was holding up a window sash . |
| 13 | Another lesson Computercraft learned was to sort out the politics before getting started . |
| 14 | What Blake did was to set up a very clever cover story which would pre-empt any subsequent accusations that he was in touch with the Russians . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was told this had been to drive off an attack by the dog pack . |
| 18 | Thomas had been granted only a weekend pass . |
| 19 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 20 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 27 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 28 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 29 | The prosecution allege these scratches had been inflicted just an hour earlier by Mrs Chandler as she fought back during the brutal sex attack . |
| 30 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |