Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] 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 | She was very tidy and had been as a child , she said ‘ I 'm obssessive ’ . |
| 4 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
| 5 | The man was a fellow-American and had been on a tour of European branches for the previous three days . |
| 6 | The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings . |