Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 2 | She fully expected him to ignore her sarcastic question , or , in his delightfully blunt fashion , tell her he was out for a walk , not an idle chinwag , when , to cause her to falter in her stride , ‘ How about — where you 'd been last Thursday while I waited outside your flat for you to come home ? ’ |
| 3 | Lary means mouthy or she 'd was lary clothes , loud clothes . |
| 4 | They came to Bedford from the Luton Public Assistance Institution where they had been assistant master and assistant matron . |
| 5 | In 1973 Esquire magazine asked a number of famous people where they had been ten years earlier when they heard that John Kennedy was assassinated . |
| 6 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 7 | He had been educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School , where he had been senior chorister at the time of the Coronation of King George V , and at Westminster School , whence he proceeded to St. John 's College , Cambridge . |
| 8 | I listened to this tale of woe and as I dug with my tiny spade , wondered what I might find , an arm or perhaps a leg , but the only discoveries that I made were small pieces of coal washed up on the beach . |
| 9 | The last the last quality entertainment video that I watched was Pretty Woman but I did n't like it . |
| 10 | ‘ The most expensive ingredient that I used was fresh tomatoes . |
| 11 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 12 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 13 | In doing so I like to think that we had been good ambassadors for the Department ; I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months . |
| 14 | The first place that we visited was Nui Lenh forest reserve , one kilometre north of the Ben Hai river . |
| 15 | All that we required was United Nations approval for the legality of our action . |
| 16 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 17 | I wondered whether Lili would agree that they had been best friends . |
| 18 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 19 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 20 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 21 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 22 | Cnut still had a difficult road to travel , but by the end of 1017 some major obstacles already lay behind him , and his position in England was much more secure than it had been twelve months earlier . |
| 23 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 24 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 25 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 26 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 27 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 28 | Part of the reason Pearce decided to accept the request to head up British Aerospace was that he had been thirty-five years with Esso , eight as chairman . |
| 29 | But what 's more serious is that one of the phrases that he used was more people are going to suffer in cover . |
| 30 | She climbed down , aware suddenly of how close he was to her , closer than he had been all morning , and when she turned , it was to find him looking down at her , a strange expression in his eyes . |