Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband , Stuart , 52 , said yesterday he had been in daily contact with her since she flew to Canada last month on the second pilgrimage to find her son . |
| 2 | Well she had been on one or two things , not a lot on the television but er , we . |
| 3 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 4 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 5 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 6 | Even Boddy , who had been telling Westerman as they came down the stairs how he had been at Bad Godesberg in 1938 just two days after Hitler and Chamberlain had left , trailed away into silence . |
| 7 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 8 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |
| 9 | Holding Management Inc. in the USA where he had been since 1983 . |
| 10 | From his account Bahdu was where he had been in most danger . |
| 11 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |