Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [vb past] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her chest ached sharply , too , just as though someone really had been hitting into it . |
| 2 | Everyone downstairs had been gawping at her . |
| 3 | Nothing more had been said on that subject . |
| 4 | Nothing further had been heard of her either in Finchley or at the Eastbourne club address . |
| 5 | Something inside had been hoping against all logic for a different answer . |
| 6 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 7 | A familiar scene , yet one that had changed subtly since yesterday — just as everything else had been changed by that newspaper item , the whole of her life being undermined making her feel that nothing was quite as it had seemed . |
| 8 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 9 | They 'd tasted like shit but they 'd sure done the stuff ; everybody else had been whining about the story while Pete had been lying there with his tongue hanging out . |
| 10 | Judge Hart said Munn confessed all when interviewed by police but no-one else had been charged with the robbery . |