Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her life hitherto had been a preparation — she recognized that now . |
| 2 | Tutorial Classes were firmly in the university sector and some LEAs were arranging classes which hitherto had been the preserve of the WEA , e.g. civics and esperanto , and even as early as 1936 , the number was relatively substantial ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 3 | So had been the doctoring and the surgery . |
| 4 | You see the piece I just read is a monologue and if I 'd known there was a competition for it I 'd have sent it there rather than |
| 5 | What he had first taken for height he soon realized was a product of high — very high — heels , and he guessed that without the lifts she would be around five foot , pleasantly featured , with a round face and perfectly round brown eyes that looked almost serene until he realized how hard they were . |
| 6 | The officer you just saw was a major . ’ |
| 7 | Well the one you just said is a bit old now . |
| 8 | How poignantly vignetted was the ice in Alexander Nevsky , but Eisenstein would have stabbed the projectionist with icicles . |
| 9 | In particular she made the acquaintance of Jimmy Webb , her seventeen-year-old assistant , who she quickly realised was a mine of information about absolutely everything that was going on . |
| 10 | ‘ The first vehicle I ever owned was a moke like that , ’ he said , when the toddler 's fist opened . |
| 11 | The first music he ever heard was The Dam Busters . |
| 12 | Speaking for the first time Vicky is now disillusioned with the man she once thought was a prophet and is writing a book about it . |
| 13 | For years , it was supposed to be crucial to bonding for baby to open its eyes on Mum and Dad in the first instants of life , which I always thought was a lot of toffee . |
| 14 | ‘ The worst teacher I ever knew was the chemistry teacher . |
| 15 | The most she ever did was a bit of sick visiting . |
| 16 | Well the first houseplant I ever bought was a money tree . |
| 17 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 18 | All I ever had was the job . |
| 19 | Yesterday had been the group 's first taste of real sunshine and comparative warmth and it had fired their enthusiasm . |
| 20 | Getting it home had been a struggle , but she was a determined soul , |
| 21 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 22 | Lurching into it , with one part lumbered with unlovely council tower blocks up the hill , while nearer the river the developers had arrived , and where once had been a network of tiny streets harbouring some of the most professional criminal families in South London , there were now several expensive blocks of flats : expensive because they faced the river and looked sideways to the old Royal Palace of Greenwich with the trees and slopes of the park behind . |
| 23 | There were churches and cathedrals all around this spot which once had been the centre of the of mediaeval town . |
| 24 | On the bare and blackened springs of what once had been the driver 's seat , sat the bare and blackened remains of what once had been something or other . |
| 25 | During lunch he treated Barbara with a grave courtesy that she later realized was a mask for his shyness . |
| 26 | When pressed as to why he thought this was , he got on to what I later found was a cause he would die for . |
| 27 | The possibility fascinated him from the beginning , from the moment Mr Evans walked into the kitchen while they were having breakfast their first morning and bared those loose teeth in what he probably thought was a smile . |
| 28 | Some time between the moment when John Bright indignantly denied being a democrat and the early twentieth century there was a reversal of official and public attitudes towards democracy . |
| 29 | A woman who fought her way to the top of a liberation movement which traditionally had been the preserve mainly of men . |
| 30 | Those hospitals which formerly had been the responsibility of Boards of Guardians and later of the local authorities , together with the development of those hospitals which the local authorities brought about , including maternity hospitals , passed to the State under the National Health Service Act 1946 , and are now managed by selected and not by elected authorities . |