Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had already settled for Peru when Terry rang , but the vision he described was far from encouraging : Lima a cauldron of unrest and theft , the hills in the hands of ‘ Sendero , ’ the country on the edge of collapse . |
| 2 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 3 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 4 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 5 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 6 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 7 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 8 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 9 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 10 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 11 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 12 | They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 14 | The modest honours he received were mainly from natural history societies , but in 1873 he was awarded the honorary degree of MA by Yale University , in 1902 the Victoria medal of honour by the Royal Horticultural Society , and in 1903 the gold medal of the Linnean Society . |
| 15 | In come the Estonians , ’ Harold Macmillan is said to have remarked after one of Margaret Thatcher 's early cabinet reshuffles , and the men to whom the Prime Minister turned were certainly outside this small genetic pool . |
| 16 | He hated the music they were playing Highland stuff , mostly — he hated being here in this dull , wet town , with these dull people listening to their dull music at their dull wedding . |
| 17 | Saying that ‘ the Pilgrim Fathers will always hold a unique place among the venerated saints of mankind ’ may be going too far , but their plain approach to life , the simple statement of belief they made on the voyage in the Mayflower Compact , and their peaceful settlements and good relations with the Indians among whom they settled were certainly in sharp contrast to what happened in most colonies . |
| 18 | The seats we now occupied were directly behind those of the complaining woman and her companions . |
| 19 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 20 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 21 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 22 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 23 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 24 | Then he held out his arms and she went into them , laughing , wiping out the days they had been apart in that one eager meeting . |
| 25 | When I was eventually connected with my Commander-in-Chief I was to learn that this was the first night he had been abed in 13 consecutive nights of operations . |
| 26 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 27 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 28 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 29 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 30 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |