Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volkov had been asleep when she came home . |
| 2 | She could n't have been asleep when I lifted the ledger from her lap and scanned its pages : she must have been watching me all the time . |
| 3 | It would 've been awful if they 'd found my things in the car . ’ |
| 4 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | Most women had tried to become pregnant for two or three years , and most ( 412 , 82% ) had never been pregnant when they entered the study . |
| 7 | Her triumph would have been short-lived if she had seen the smile slip from his face and a look of regret shape his expression ; his quiet eyes were drawn to the window , to the skyline beyond . |
| 8 | Our defence has been solid and we played with a lot of spirit against Kilmarnock and Dunfermline . |
| 9 | The blood had stopped , had been dry when she woke up . |
| 10 | Applying Phipps he would have been guilty if he had drove to the agreed destination and then driven to his true destination . |
| 11 | This movement , as Rufus had no doubt intended , sent Mary toppling forward into Adam 's arms , her breasts lightly slapping into his chest in a way that would have been blissful if it had been allowed to continue but Mary , drunk as she was , had sprung aside , actually sprung to her feet , and rather late in the day hugged her arms across her chest . |
| 12 | Now I began to wonder if my friends had not been right when they said I would never see him again . |
| 13 | Could she have been right when she had thought , almost a week ago , that Roman was about to tell her he had asked Dana to marry him ? |
| 14 | He was full of inconsequential but amusing chatter and Louise had been right when she said that he knew everybody . |
| 15 | If anything , she was relieved at the outcome –f that particular incident — Josie had been right when she 'd said that after going so far Lucy was now marking time and getting no further . |
| 16 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 17 | David had been right when he 'd said that Rachel knew the whereabouts of Brooklands , for she had been there with her parents and her sister shortly after David and Jennifer 's engagement had been announced . |
| 18 | He 'd been right when he 'd said she was shrewish , though she 'd never suffered from the malady before . |
| 19 | He had been right when he 'd said there was no future — because the past would always exist . |
| 20 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 21 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 22 | Bigwig had been right when he said the line was fresh . |
| 23 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 24 | They may have even been friendly but I remembered the old saying , ‘ On a dark lonely road , one never meets a friend ’ . ’ |
| 25 | It 's just that today 's been strange and I thought maybe , oh . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It allowed Tatham to develop reserves that probably would not have been economic if they had to build their own stand-alone facility . |
| 27 | The home bowler of the series was Colin Croft with twenty-four wickets at under 19 , and few English batsmen will have been sorry that he played in only two rubbers against them . |
| 28 | You 'd likely have been sorry if you had n't , 'cos you 've been on the verge of snapping . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , and you 'd have been grateful that I 'd gone . |
| 30 | The porter who rang up to Mrs. Banks and directed Charles to her flat was also no doubt expensive , and would have been discreet if he had refrained from accompanying his directions with a wink . |