Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtains were wet where they had been sucked into the fringe of the deluge . |
| 2 | It could have been different if I had been accepted for the Forces , but this way I mean to make Marion my wife and I hope … well … well ’ — he jerked his head upwards — ‘ I may as well say it , that if I have a son , or for second best , a daughter , to carry on here . |
| 3 | Maybe they all felt OK because no-one had been shot in a park . |
| 4 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 5 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |
| 6 | Liverpool 's tactical and technical limitations were exposed by the newly-crowned Russian champions , and while it is easy to be wise after the event , Rosenthal could just have been the man to produce that little something out of the ordinary if he had been used from the start against Spartak . |
| 7 | It would have been very sad if it had been stopped . ’ |
| 8 | This movement , as Rufus had no doubt intended , sent Mary toppling forward into Adam 's arms , her breasts lightly slapping into his chest in a way that would have been blissful if it had been allowed to continue but Mary , drunk as she was , had sprung aside , actually sprung to her feet , and rather late in the day hugged her arms across her chest . |
| 9 | They found that only about half would have voted Labour if they had been registered . |
| 10 | Was she really more ill than she 'd been led to suppose ? |
| 11 | His goal , which squared the friendly 1–1 , was all the more remarkable considering he had been laid up in bed with flu for most of last week and forced to miss Sunday 's game against Torino . |
| 12 | I suspect he would have been making exactly the same speech but saying that the figures were suspect because they had been come from somewhere else . |
| 13 | Her boyfriend ended up on the floor , she was n't sure if he 'd been punched or pushed . |
| 14 | " Income " includes income chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise ( UK source income ) and any income which would be chargeable if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | any income chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise ( first limb ) ; and 2. any income which would have been so chargeable if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) . |
| 16 | Before leaving the ministry in mid-1861 the sensible Evgraf Kovalevskii came up with a programme for reducing the volatility of the universities which might have been effective if it had been introduced gradually . |
| 17 | I pushed past — calamity kills scruple — and explained that I was late because I had been robbed . |
| 18 | It is not credible that the Court of Appeal would refuse to quash a conviction in the context of a referral on the ground that the conviction was inviolable because it had been restored by the House of Lords in the original proceedings . |
| 19 | I realized with a shock that this was the first time I had been really unhappy since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 20 | It had seven base stones and four capstones ; she knew it well ; she had been present when it had been discoverd and excavated . |
| 21 | It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago . |
| 22 | Some of the annual subscribers to the infirmary were dissatisfied because they had been asked to pay their first subscription before the building was complete . |
| 23 | I had not realised that it was even more complicated than I had been led to believe originally . |
| 24 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 25 | Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities . |
| 26 | He wondered if Alexei was angry because he had been beaten again , or if maybe he was beginning to realise that there was no way , short of an accident , that he was ever going to be allowed to win . |
| 27 | When delivered , it was discovered to be poisonous because it had been contaminated with castor oil . |
| 28 | Souza 's commitments were no doubt the more complicated because he had been raised as a Catholic , and had been taught that the eroticism of Hindu religious philosophy was wicked . |
| 29 | Edward made his own views clear by stating that he regarded the 1328 treaty as invalid because it had been made when he was a minor and under the tutelage of others and that his title to the overlordship of Scotland should be reasserted . |
| 30 | The army action was severely criticized by Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , the transitional Prime Minister , who declared that Kpodzro 's decision was invalid since it had been made under duress and had not been subject to a regular vote in the HCR . |