Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [adv prt] [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 | 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | It seems the piece they took was holding up a window sash . |
| 8 | Another lesson Computercraft learned was to sort out the politics before getting started . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was told this had been to drive off an attack by the dog pack . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 18 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 19 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 20 | The company policy had been to speed up the line and the rate of production . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Soon after , she recognized in a certain strain of feminist theory an approach to language which had much in common with the approach she herself had been developing over a number of years . |
| 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 | She had been riding along a road with a little girl and Clare 's small pony Kizzy on a leading rein . |
| 26 | In the letters Bush suggested compromise terms for the two issues which had been holding up an agreement on a conference , namely the question of UN representation and the nature of the conference itself . |
| 27 | The car had been chased up the M1 as far as Newport Pagnall by two Bedfordshire police patrol cars . |
| 28 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 29 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 30 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |