Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [noun prp] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 2 | The laboratory of Davy and Faraday had been like a large kitchen of the early nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Areas around Ramallah and el-Bireh had been under curfew since the killing of a settler at the beginning of the intifada [ see pp. 35856-61 ] . |
| 4 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 5 | A mole working inside Cranborne School had supplied them with a mailing-list of all Muslim parents whose children had been rejected by ‘ This is a Christian Country ’ Gyles , the Junior School headmaster , and Robert and Maisie had been through the telephone directory , picking out anyone with a Muslim-sounding name . |
| 6 | Dr. Crocker and Wexford had been at school together . |
| 7 | Once Dolly and Gertrude had been in the back row of the chorus at the Palladium , and Gertrude had even had a solo spot with a comic song … he had seen a photo of her somewhere as Burlington Bertie … |
| 8 | Arthur and Fred had been to school together . |
| 9 | Carey and Zeno had been on the same side once . |
| 10 | Tehran , Baghdad — Andropulos again playing both sides of the fence , Iran and Iraq had been at war for six years now — Tripoli , Damascus , Beirut , Athens , Rome , East Berlin , New York and London . |
| 11 | The three wanted men were close friends from Armagh , and Duffy and Gorman had been in Derby with Magee for several weeks before Monday 's shooting . |
| 12 | That is to say , Tolkien 's stories could be said to be an embodiment of that Northernness with which Lewis and Greeves had been in love since early adolescence . |
| 13 | Charles and Judith had been in Louis 's thoughts as he lay dying : he had left Charles a share of his treasure , and despatched crown , sword and sceptre to Lothar " to have on condition that he should keep his faith to Charles and Judith , and guarantee to Charles the whole share of the realm which with God and the leading men of the palace as witnesses , Lothar with his father , and in his father 's presence , had assigned to Charles " . |
| 14 | But how much work was done , how much , if any , ore was obtained and how long the Quakers or Patrickson had been at work we may never discover . |
| 15 | With Paul Foot , Booker and Ingrams had been at Shrewsbury in the early 1950s . |
| 16 | Recently Princess Jeeta and Jamila had been in funereal moods , not for a second allowing Anwar to enjoy the pleasure of his tyranny . |
| 17 | The Divas manager Alan Cutler says Dee and Rose had been on the verge of a wonderful career . |
| 18 | Anyway , Benguiat made up to him and gave him a big kiss and then the next day things got bad again because Parkinson was going to in room number two above this floor to sort out his slides and Benguiat had been in there and evidently he had just decided to tuck his shirt in and loosen his trousers and while he was tucking his shirt in Parkinson came in and says aha , caught you with your pants down , and Benguiat storms out of the room . |