Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described being taken over the years to see his sick , and finally dying and almost certainly innocent father in another prison . |
| 2 | Saw three fellows at the end of Royce Wood , who I found were laying out the plan for an iron rail way from Manchester to London . |
| 3 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |
| 5 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 6 | Another lesson Computercraft learned was to sort out the politics before getting started . |
| 7 | They were then made a sign in the store , and if the job came up again , all you did was to go down the store , and it was a one-off exercise , instead of travelling back and forwards to get a particular tool , erm er that was all eliminated . |
| 8 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 9 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 10 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 11 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 12 | She said how the old people 's sitting room had been livened up when a few pictures of old Barnsley had been hung on the walls . |
| 13 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 14 | A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ . |
| 15 | The company policy had been to speed up the line and the rate of production . |
| 16 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 17 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 18 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 19 | The car had been chased up the M1 as far as Newport Pagnall by two Bedfordshire police patrol cars . |
| 20 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 21 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 22 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 23 | Parole was not a new idea , having existed in parts of the United States since early in the twentieth century , and had been canvassed down the years . |
| 24 | When our mam died — our dad had been killed down the pit long before — he took me in and brought me up . |
| 25 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 26 | After he 'd been offered the job Archie had been taken over the new building to see the general layout . |
| 27 | But Coun. Nicholas Thorne-Wallis ( Lab ) , chairman , said that no final decision had been taken over the proposals and Coun. Mrs Rose Davison ( Lab ) called for more options to be considered by the council . |
| 28 | After three centuries of decline , the first steps had been taken on the path to restoration . |
| 29 | The US authorities claimed that the decision to evacuate Peace Corps workers had been taken on the basis of general intelligence concerning NPA intentions , and that Swanson 's abduction had only become known after the decision had been made . |
| 30 | Even now , however , no decisions had been taken on the speed of emancipation or the form it should take . |