Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adj] morning " in BNC.

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1 He had been christened that morning and died the same afternoon .
2 Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood .
3 Instead he sent out 12th man Paul Reiffel to cover for him whole he rang chairman of selectors Lawrie Sawle to vent his feelings about the news he had been given that morning .
4 But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own .
5 The upshot was that Hauptmann Alfred Horn — if that was indeed his name — had been transferred next morning from the Tower to a miserable country house near Aldershot called Mytchett Place , where he was being held under extremely heavy guard .
6 Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning .
7 Nor did he reimburse Alistair for the lunch , though he did explain that his wallet had been emptied that morning — by which alcoholic , Sixsmith never established .
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