Example sentences of "[vb past] simply [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The static lines which pulled open their parachutes had simply been tied to the metal legs of the seats inside the fuselage . |
| 2 | Now , if it had simply been given to the woman , Common Law would have said , ‘ We can pay no attention to this separate use . |
| 3 | She had simply been given no encouragement to make the best of herself . |
| 4 | Until then , they had simply been called Nazareans . |
| 5 | Any man [ sic ] who had opposed political action had simply been insulted at quarterly meetings , and they could not keep on doing that without feeling the effects . |
| 6 | We read that the apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to them and ‘ when they arrived , they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit , because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them ; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 7 | On March 18 a Romanian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that the Romanian ambassador to Hungary , Simion Pop , had not been called home because of pro-Hungarian feelings , but had simply been retired for health reasons . |
| 8 | The world had simply been turned upside-down . |
| 9 | But , after nearly an hour , it was obvious that she had simply been brought to this near-empty building and left for the police to find her . |
| 10 | She realized then that the coffin lid had simply been lifted off , letting in light from a long strip-light that hung from a plain rock ceiling . |
| 11 | As the car moved off , the man strode into the road as if his intention to confront Elliott had simply been mistimed . |
| 12 | Maybe Jeff was right that the man was insufferable and she had simply been bowled over by his formidable good looks and by that quality of heady excitement he exuded . |
| 13 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 14 | The entire issue of 16 December 1936 had simply been removed from the file . |
| 15 | The original stones of the sloping gable coping had simply been bedded on the slate-roof covering of the aisles at their verges so that rain entering the joints between the coping stones had saturated the top courses of the stone facing and caused premature decay . |
| 16 | They had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 17 | All sorts of people , Cypriot and Lebanese , wandered in and out all the time , sometimes escorted , sometimes not , and although El-Jorr seemed to know most of them , there were clearly some who had simply been told to drop in and introduce themselves . |