Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [noun pl] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winding-sheet with its top- and bottom-knots had been in steady decline during the last quarter of the seventeenth century , its place being taken by the open-backed long-sleeved shift with draw-strings at wrist and neck , either with or without an integral hood . |
| 2 | To visit their former homes and lands had been like touching history . |
| 3 | The Thracians and Illyrians had been to a great extent Hellenised during the fourth century BC , when the Macedonian empire of Philip and Alexander flourished . |
| 4 | When Mr Patel had passed , the previous evening and that morning , the man 's head and shoulders had been underneath the car , and no , he had not come into the shop at all . |
| 5 | She 'd learned about that back when she was Jessamyn Amanda and nine-year-olds had been worth a gallon of potable water on the streets of the NoGo . |
| 6 | According to a government report published on Aug. 9 , cases of espionage in Switzerland involving agents from Eastern Europe continued to increase ; 65 of the 91 cases recorded from 1980 to 1988 involved these countries , most of which desired technological rather than political or security information , and over the same period 17 of the 24 diplomats and officials expelled were from Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children |
| 8 | A retired postman who claimed to have been present at the Battle of Studley Constable was interviewed on television , and I still receive the occasional letter from Germans and Americans claiming that fathers or uncles had been at the ‘ battle ’ . |
| 9 | She wondered again what her grandfather 's thoughts and feelings had been in those few days at Dudley House . |
| 10 | Once inside those walls , it really was another world , more than fifteen square kilometres of streets bordered by the crumbling walls of houses , public buildings , cemeteries and reservoirs , some with bits and pieces of bone lying exposed where long-dead looters and grave-robbers had been at work . |