Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 2 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 3 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 4 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 5 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 6 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 8 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 9 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 10 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 11 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 12 | The piece I did is on one side , and on the other is a piece by The Kronos Quartet , called Different Trains . ’ |
| 13 | one I did was with Caledonian Paper at Irvine and the Finns or the Swedes whoever own |
| 14 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 15 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 16 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 17 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 18 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 19 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 20 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 21 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 22 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 23 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 24 | All I had was in that crate , its death |
| 25 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 26 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 27 | The council convener , Robert Gough , who presented a plaque to the crew , said it was with regret that they said goodbye to the squadron , which had been of great comfort to people in difficulty on land and sea . |
| 28 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 29 | In a general election held on Sept. 3 , 1988 [ see pp. 36352-53 ] , the People 's Action Party ( PAP — which had been in continuous majority since 1959 ) won all but one of the 81 elective seat . |
| 30 | In 1978 I attended the Welsh ploughing championships , held on rich alluvial land in the Wye Valley which had been in continuous cereal production for several years . |