Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [noun sg] [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few words posted to the tree informed everyone that Lovat had been badly wounded and was now in hospital somewhere in England . |
| 2 | In November of 1968 , he responded to the demands of Derry Catholics by proposing that the Londonderry City Corporation ( which since partition had been gerrymandered so that the Protestant minority retained control ) be replaced by a nominated body , that housing allocation be removed from political control to be administered on a fair ‘ points for needs ’ system , and that the Special Powers Act be re-examined . |
| 3 | Now he 'd know she and Candy had been discussing him . |
| 4 | The fact that Karajan was a man of considerable good humour , with a fund of musical anecdotes and a talent for musical mimicry , does not obscure the existence of that more private self that Steiner claims to have glimpsed and which was also evident in Karajan 's long-standing preoccupation with skiing , flying , and sailing , activities not of some rich playboy , but of a person who since childhood had been uneasy with gregariousness and the urban life . |
| 5 | I remember the amounts because for several years , it was my Saturday job to go to St. Martin 's Church Vestry to collect the money which was paid out by the Parish Clerk , Mr. Daniel Sutton , who before retirement had been Headmaster of the Church School . |
| 6 | He never tried to wake her , instead he would just stand and watch and pray that the angels had in fact gathered her and justice had been done . |
| 7 | In August 1306 , at the pope 's request , Amanieu VII was granted the lordship of Meilhan in the Bazadais by Edward I. The grant was not to prejudice the existing rights of another lord , Auger de Mothe , to levy a lucrative toll or péage at Meilhan , but Albret willingly agreed to this because he and Auger had been ‘ companions and friends since their youth ’ ( a suis juventutibus fuerant socii et amici ) . |
| 8 | The laboratory 's John Barton , speaking at a conference in London last year , described a number of occasions when decisions to invest in schemes to recycle rubbish or to burn it as fuel had been based on estimates of commercial and household waste that turned out to be much too high . |
| 9 | Then working to a computer-generated plan , he lays the tiles dry , later repositioning them after adhesive has been applied to the floor . |
| 10 | What if revenge had been the motive rather than the silencing of a witness ? |
| 11 | The three youths waited , debating within themselves whether honour had been satisfied as he took his attention from them and returned it to Marion ; and suddenly , as his eyes burned into her like a couple of lasers , it was as if the two of them stood alone and everything else was just background . |