Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 2 | There was only a year between their ages and there had always been a close bond between them . |
| 3 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 4 | The walk led to some greenhouses and what had once been a stable , now converted into a surgery . |
| 5 | This guy last week she said you 're going to the Emerald Isles and he said where is the Emerald Isles ? |
| 6 | It was the nature of dogs to eat cats and he had never been able to see the sense of trying to stop them . |
| 7 | Roman had been holding her in his arms and she had n't been fighting — no wonder Dana was furious . |
| 8 | Only by now there were n't any more southbound stages and there had n't been for over a week . |
| 9 | The first personnel carriers rumbled out of the main gate , blocking the workday traffic , and he watched them now with envy because they were off to play soldiers and he had n't been invited . |
| 10 | Someone had chucked a brick through the gas-mantle on the corner by the Cathedral railings and it had n't been replaced . |
| 11 | ‘ Some neighbours of ours in Scotland had unnaturally cosmopolitan views about the best way to bring up their daughters and they had all been sent to stay with family friends in both Paris and Florence when they were about seventeen . |