Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 2 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
| 3 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 4 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 5 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 6 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 7 | The ban aimed at eliminating the ivory market , which many conservationists believed was fuelling widespread poaching which reduced Africa 's elephant population from an estimated 1.2 million to 609,000 in the last decade . |
| 8 | UK Environment Minister David Trippier , speaking to UNEP 's governing council in Nairobi , criticized other European countries for failing to provide adequate support , which he claimed was jeopardizing key UNEP work on global warming and the ozone layer . |
| 9 | He braked but could not avoid the pedestrian whom he thought was wearing dark clothing . |
| 10 | John Lucas , the future philosopher , remembered being taught Greek grammar by Ramsey and sitting on his head while reciting Greek verbs . |
| 11 | Described as " red patriots " the group had only eight deputies in the Supreme Soviet , but observers noted that the ideas which it promoted were gathering increasing support in Russia . |
| 12 | I here were fans suspended from the ceilings in each of the rooms but in Owen 's view all they did was to move hot air from one place to another and he very rarely switched his on . |
| 13 | But what he did was to go outside broadcasting for two out of his three senior editorial jobs , the first main appointments . |
| 14 | What The Stones and The Animals and all the great bands that I grew up with did was to take black music , and although it was played by white kids , they did n't change the nature of the beast , and it worked . |
| 15 | The first thing my livingstonii did was to develop white spot , unusual in cichlids and the more so in Mbuna , and it was while they were undergoing treatment in methylene blue that I started to learn what characters they can be . |
| 16 | The answer they devised is called Compact Disc Interactive ( CD-I ) . |
| 17 | Of these , 44 had been taking delayed release mesalazine as the sole maintenance treatment for at least six months . |
| 18 | Defence lawyers claimed that several injured defendants had been denied medical attention and that many others had been tortured while in custody . |
| 19 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 20 | Chauthala had been appointed Chief Minister on Dec. 2 , 1989 , replacing his father , Devi Lal , on the latter 's appointment as the central government 's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture [ see pp. 37031 ; 37124 ] . |
| 21 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 22 | Hammadi , a Shia , who had been appointed Prime Minister in March [ see p. 38083 ] , was reported to have favoured greater political liberalization and a closer adherence to UN resolutions to end Iraq 's international isolation . |
| 23 | Peterle ( born in 1948 ) had been leader of the Christian Democrats since autumn 1989 , and as the leader of the largest coalition party , had been appointed Prime Minister after the elections . |
| 24 | The main architect of the May crackdown , Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon , had been appointed Prime Minister in March 1992 . |
| 25 | On July 21 it was announced that Ghozali had been appointed Algerian ambassador to Paris [ see also below ] . |
| 26 | Wofford , 65 , once an aide to President Kennedy , had been appointed temporary senator in May 1991 by Democratic governor Robert Casey after the death in April of incumbent Republican John Heinz in a plane crash [ see p. 38138 ] . |
| 27 | On Oct. 22 Mohammad Ali Nazaran , the Iranian representative on the tripartite Iranian-Iraqi-ICRC commission charged with supervising the exchange of prisoners , demanded that Iraq " release immediately " Mohammad Javad Tondguyan , who had been appointed Iranian Oil Minister in September 1980 [ see p. 30630 ] and captured by an Iraqi military patrol shortly after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war [ see p. 31008 ] . |
| 28 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 29 | He had been appointed Military Attache to my father in 1917 after being badly wounded in France . |
| 30 | Later that month , Dr. Harvey Goldsmith who had been appointed medical officer to the Poor Law Institution in 1900 , resigned . |