Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [vb past] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Bobby who had been sitting by me . |
| 2 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 3 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 4 | Before leaving England he had been hankering after his American roots , not only in those sections of Ash-Wednesday which recall the New England coast , but also in his prose , invoking , for instance , his old master Josiah Royce , who was now mostly forgotten , ‘ but a great philosopher in his day ’ . |
| 5 | A practical outcome from this incident was a new pair of deck shoes for Marty who had been campaigning for a replacement from Stores Branch for some time . |
| 6 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 7 | Laidlaw waited until the prostitute was out of sight then nodded to Graham who had been standing by the tree . |
| 8 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 9 | Several analysts were confounded by the strong performance : only on Monday they had been muttering about how sustainable recent performance had been , and querying whether the share price had not run ahead of itself . |
| 10 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 11 | A moment before Melinda herself had been sitting on the bag . |
| 12 | Such factual situations had not been considered by Lord Templeman who had been dealing with only one occupant . |
| 13 | Our next-door neighbours , Mr and Mrs Buckley , had a daughter named Sally who had been staying with an aunt for a year or so . |
| 14 | He had discussed this with a certain Colonel Hazelden who had been operating as an agent in the Tobruk area . |
| 15 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 16 | Before Henderson went to Russia Lloyd George himself had been toying with the idea that a Stockholm conference might help to keep Russia in the war . |
| 17 | On arrival , the leading group met up with Bob Melot who had been hiding in the area for several weeks gathering intelligence . |
| 18 | The last time she had seen Niall he had been checking on his patients . |
| 19 | Then John 's second son , Robert , married the stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Tomkins who had been dancing for seven years . |
| 20 | 10–11 Donald Urquhart who had been teaching at the Lotts school left to become a student at Edinburgh University and was succeeded by Malcolm McPhail . |
| 21 | Hugh Kenner is no doubt right to suppose that it was Pound who had been thinking of it . |
| 22 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |