Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 2 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 3 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 4 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The seats we now occupied were directly behind those of the complaining woman and her companions . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 19 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 20 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 21 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |
| 22 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 23 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 24 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 25 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 26 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 27 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 28 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 29 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 30 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |