Example sentences of "been [verb] [conj] was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Gömbös supported a German-Hungarian-Italian axis and by 1938 a Hungarian Nazi party , the Arrow Cross , had been formed and was agitating for land reform and a restoration of the old frontiers .
2 The-middle one looked as if it had been shot and was going into its final dive .
3 He had been handcuffed and was crying with the pain , shouting that they were too tight .
4 A urinary catheter had been inserted and was draining into a sealed drainage system .
5 Madeleine replied with the news that she had been promoted and was moving to a town not twenty miles away .
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