Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 2 | The , the fare for er that I went was thirty two pounds ten . |
| 3 | Oh that I thought were very |
| 4 | This I knew was not a sexual invitation but a protection against the evil eye . |
| 5 | The entrance was through a small separate cell to the north-east , and it was this which had been tampered with . |
| 6 | The closeness had somehow died , but apart from this she 'd been so sure there was much he could tell her . |
| 7 | This she discovered was her sort of place . |
| 8 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 9 | There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour . |
| 10 | Overall , when the children on the course were compared to those in the control groups , it was found that none of them had taken up smoking and some who had been using snuff before the start of the programme had now given up . |
| 11 | Of course , there were some who had been bought by ORDEN , even secondary school pupils who were members of the Paramilitary groups . |
| 12 | Chester , who was soon to accompany Coleridge on the journey into Europe , was yet another who had been drawn to him ‘ as flies are to honey ’ , and now trotted happily beside his two talkative companions , bow-legged and awestruck . |
| 13 | Would a rescuer be denied an action on the ground of ex turpi causa , e.g. if one burglar was injured attempting to assist another who had been placed in danger by the dangerous condition of the house they were breaking into ? |
| 14 | Previous to this we had been left very much to our own resources . |
| 15 | Yes , but this creature would have known him , this one had been there , he had seen the Creation and the Fall … |
| 16 | This one had been snatched back . |
| 17 | The reason this one survived is because it travelled on the tour bus and not on the chartered plane , which crashed after take-off from Mason City airport in Iowa , while taking Holly , the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens to a gig in Moorhead , Minnesota . |
| 18 | And from that moment to this there had been no opportunity for any kind of personal discussion . |
| 19 | This they knew was the work of wolves . |
| 20 | They did not recognize the British calendar , or , indeed , she was later to discover , their own : their first choice of conference date had been Boxing Day , but from this they had been dissuaded . |
| 21 | This they decided was evidence for neutrons coming from the cell . |
| 22 | But when Jesus heard this he said is it not those who are healthy who need a physi , it is not those who are healthy who need a physician , but those who are sick . |
| 23 | To do this he had been dropping dummies by parachute near Italian prisoner-of-war camps , and the advent of some real parachutists was an obvious gift . |
| 24 | As he moved away from the tree it became apparent to Marian that between him and the trunk lay a substantial sack , and that it was this he had been defending so stoutly . |
| 25 | Somewhat before this he had been introduced , probably by Anne Boleyn , to some rather more revolutionary reading matter : The Obedience of a Christian Man , written by the suspected heretic William Tyndale . |
| 26 | This he claimed was due to the way in which the modular certificates are gained . |
| 27 | But it seems sad that so many did not have a more enjoyable sexual introduction , especially when for a few it had been the one and only time . |
| 28 | No , another he said was that bloke came in later . |
| 29 | One way and another it had been a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon . |
| 30 | One way or another it had been quite a day , she decided , cooling down under the shower before she collapsed on to her bed . |