Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [coord] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 2 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 3 | ‘ A friend of mine owned the studio and had been in the music industry a long time and was amazed that this 16-year-old had the whole production idea worked out in her head . ’ |
| 4 | The sexual relationship between the victim and accused was on occasions the focal point of the press coverage . |
| 5 | Zabaleta , 39 , known in ETA as Waldo , had been involved with ETA since he was a teenager and had been in charge of its itinerant commandos since 1984 . |
| 6 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |