Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazzer was twenty-two years old and had been compared in looks to a pit bull , entirely to the dog 's advantage . |
| 2 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |
| 3 | The central block was originally Jacobean but had been gothicised in the late eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Sister Marcus said Mr Francis was rather poorly and had been moved from the Seriously Ill to the Dangerously Ill List . |
| 5 | The train had living accommodation for thirty-eight sick berth staff , all in the charge of a medical officer , who had his living quarters in the staff coach , while 140 sick and wounded were accommodated in six cot coaches . |
| 6 | To this end , every object , every thought , everything idolised and admired was turned on its head , mocked and misplaced . |
| 7 | There was a sense among them , even the innocent ones , of naughty children who had gone too far and had been abandoned by their parents . |
| 8 | There had been some authoritarian regimes that were also populist and had been sustained by votes not repressive force . |
| 9 | She was half naked and had been beaten about the head with a rock . |
| 10 | All were dead and had been ringed as pulli the summer before recovery . |
| 11 | Arrested by the Germans in 1942 , he had saved his life by pretending to be mad and had been interned in the Saint-Anne asylum until the liberation . |