Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
| 2 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
| 3 | It was held that the terms which were ultimately agreed could apply , retrospectively , to work which had already been done . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't know you had ever been on the stage . ’ |
| 5 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 6 | Walked through there and got to the simulator took our jackets off , pretended we 'd already been in walked straight past and we were right on site ! |
| 7 | While they were walking they had not been able to see it , because there were hills in the way ; but now they saw that the cottage was really built on a cliff , and down below them was a small bay . |
| 8 | I did n't know he 'd even been out the first time . |
| 9 | And what would you do if someone were to break down those pillars , Shae — scream and protest and say it had all been done against your will ? ’ |
| 10 | Children used to leave out hay for the kings ' horses and wake up to find it had mysteriously been replaced by presents . |
| 11 | They found it had not been modified in any way and could not operate on the 27–28 MHz frequency ( the FM Citizens ' Band ) . |
| 12 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 13 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 14 | Colleagues , who 've been paying tribute to his dedication and exertise , say he 'd always been aware of the dangers surrounding his work.Ian Maclaren reports . |
| 15 | This is not merely a matter of re-stating what had already been said ; it involves a genuine progress and advance towards a fuller and clearer understanding enabled by the onward movement of history . |
| 16 | Of that hero , my great-great-grandfather , I soon determined to write what had not been written before , a biography . |
| 17 | I said I was looking I said where 's grandma , I put that ne table there is that alright ? |
| 18 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 19 | He was wearing a sports coat which had obviously been tailored in London , suede shoes , a striped tie and a beige waistcoat . |
| 20 | A number of hazards were revealed which had not been specifically predicted but which needed to be taken into account in designing the main research project . |
| 21 | If Vitor believed her to have been three months pregnant in Adelaide , then he believed she had already been pregnant when they had made love ! |
| 22 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 23 | She had always said she had never been a shop-girl and she was n't going to start now . |
| 24 | Yong and his father were the first people we had met who had actually been to Aru . |
| 25 | But still her mind looked back , of its own accord , to Lajos , the harpies of the women 's magazine , Algox , and it seemed she had always been got at , and ‘ they ’ were still getting at her . |
| 26 | As time went by , it seemed there had always been a war , and always would be . |
| 27 | To eliminate him had also been to destroy a dream . |
| 28 | At his trial it was revealed he had previously been involved in an incident whilst working as a door supervisor when another person died . |
| 29 | They 'd arranged to meet for dinner , but it seemed he had n't been able to wait . |
| 30 | Alina was holding onto the door , because the six steps that she 'd taken to reach it had almost been enough to exhaust her ; Belov dusted off his hands and came over to her now , and he took her by the shoulders and turned her around and steered her back toward the bed that she 'd just left . |