Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I had n't been shot . |
| 2 | Perhaps I had always been in love with him . |
| 3 | I had thi yeah I had this long conversation not knowing who the hell he so I said well are you going , I was thinking Kingfisher , so I thought well , I said are you going training tomorrow night ? |
| 4 | she threw my jacket so I thought how am I gon na get my jacket come and get my jacket . |
| 5 | Tony 's waiting for his Pot Noodles so I 'd better be off . |
| 6 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 7 | Arriving , she saw that the front door was still open : perhaps she had not been gone long , perhaps they had not yet missed her . |
| 8 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 9 | Perhaps she had already been to one . |
| 10 | Perhaps you 'd better be a bit careful . |
| 11 | The girl was standing near the back door , obviously she had not been invited inside . |
| 12 | Personally she had never been attracted to that sort in her life before . |
| 13 | So you 'd better be prepared today to do everything on the move . |
| 14 | So you had better be careful . ’ |
| 15 | At the comparative safety of a deserted road we collected ourselves a little and then headed for the station , trying hard to chuckle about it all , though obviously we had both been deeply affected . |
| 16 | Perhaps there had n't been anyone there , after all . |
| 17 | Hitherto there had only been four or five types available in England . |
| 18 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 19 | So they said where is she then ? |
| 20 | So they 'd better be nice seeing as we 've been all the way |
| 21 | No , they was living together they 'd only been living there a fortnight ! |
| 22 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 23 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 24 | He would have been happy with that if only he had n't been placed behind Eleanor . |
| 25 | Constitutionally it had not been thought through . |
| 26 | Perhaps it had just been the rather stuffy air in that crowded room . |
| 27 | Perhaps it had even been home-cooked . |
| 28 | Perhaps he 'd planned it , perhaps it had n't been a lightning urge but the first of his traps . |
| 29 | Perhaps it had n't been a good idea after all to come on this trip together . |
| 30 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |