Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was 6 years old and had been at the school for three terms when the head , knowing that I was a neighbour and friend of Balbinder 's mother , invited me to go with Mrs Singh to a meeting with the educational psychologist . |
| 2 | My suit case was ready packed and had been for the last week . |
| 3 | Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care . |
| 4 | She was very tidy and had been as a child , she said ‘ I 'm obssessive ’ . |
| 5 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
| 6 | We think this exercise is very important and have been among a small handful of organisations in Wales who have been consulted so far . |
| 7 | The man was a fellow-American and had been on a tour of European branches for the previous three days . |
| 8 | The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings . |
| 9 | Both men are American and have been among the best-paid executives of a British quoted company since the merger three years ago of SmithKline , an American drug company , and Beecham . |
| 10 | What is most true and touching is in a dying fall , said hardly at all , or in a low , quick way or turning aside . |