Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun] [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was originally from the street gangs , a New Jersey street fighter , and my concept had always been ‘ watch your own back ’ , and there was no such thing as ‘ peace and love ’ . |
| 2 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 3 | Nevertheless for Minton , as for others , it remained a meeting place where friends could always be found and its usefulness had not been superseded . |
| 4 | Thank God , it was n't he who had to break the news to the woman that her husband and her daughter had both been killed in the car crash that had fractured her skull . |
| 5 | She and her sister had almost been killed only hours earlier and all she could think about , it seemed , was her dead husband 's infidelity . |
| 6 | And where ag erm either erm a young mother or even older women who did n't have a husband to support them , then we would try and we had one woman coming in and saying , she had six children and er her husband had gone off , and her giro had n't been sorted out . |
| 7 | She liked their life together , and her conscience had never been troubled by the knowledge of where their wealth came from . |
| 8 | Folasade and her boyfriend had both been pleased when she got pregnant ; they were still together alter three years and hoping to build a stable future for themselves . |
| 9 | It was evident that the ever-present shadow which fell across the lives of Mme Guérigny and her son had never been darker . |
| 10 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 11 | But he was still haunted by the scene the girl had conjured up : the old man in that bright little kitchen with its ramshackle fittings and earthenware sink : holding her , kissing her lips and her hair ; then sitting at the table , questioning her , promising to leave her some money , and finally , as a parting shot , telling her casually that her father and her aunt had both been illegitimate … |
| 12 | It would not come although it must have been on the same day as the trip to the cathedral and her aunt had undoubtedly been with her . |
| 13 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 14 | Fay Weldon and her allies had not been invited either , because , it was felt , they held racist attitudes , consciously or not . |
| 15 | When he let her off it had happened that simply and her world had never been the same again . |
| 16 | Miss Metcalfe and her accordion had hardly been adequate to cope with a congregation of some 200 people , so the following year a portable harmonium , played by the Stalling Busk church organist Miss E Leyland , accompanied the singing . |
| 17 | ‘ That fateful day he set off for work and their lives changed forever is etched on Wyn 's memory . |
| 18 | True , she had been a baby at the time of the war , but her family had moved out to the countryside and their locality had never been troubled by bombing or anything else which might have caused her phobia . |
| 19 | The view had a practical function ; the men of Elling were fishermen , they had always been fishermen and their quarry had always been herring and eel . |
| 20 | For despite having an open mind in many ways , his attitude to women and their problems had always been the conventional one of the young aristocrat he had once been . |
| 21 | The compilers of the whole narrative , working at the time of the exile in Babylonia , were convinced that the catastrophe had overtaken their people because they and their kings had not been faithful to their God . |
| 22 | She had n't mentioned David Markham but his presence had hung between them like a spectre and his name had n't been mentioned since . |
| 23 | Y-you … ’ she spluttered , and , loving him , found it absolutely beyond belief that he should believe that she and his cousin had just been having a fine old time . |
| 24 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |
| 25 | He told Mrs Edwards her son had given his life in the service of humanity and his sacrifice had not been in vain . |
| 26 | Mother asked me to call him , but he was n't in his room and his bed had n't been slept in . ’ |
| 27 | The two girls were both on night duty and they waited in vain all night , hoping against hope that Steve and his crew had perhaps been forced down somewhere , but by the time dawn came up and there was still no news , they realised he was just another casualty . |
| 28 | Why cut off one hand ? the Doctor wondered , before the reason struck him : the man must have carried a briefcase or similar object cuffed to his wrist , and his assailants had n't been willing to expend time on subtleties like lockpicking . |
| 29 | He and his staff had also been busy cultivating the swing voters in the House and on 28 April he capped his effort with a triumphant televised address to Congress . |
| 30 | He was naked and his throat had also been cut . |