Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though his words could hardly be construed as an apology , and nothing had been resolved , Luce was so incandescent with happiness that she thought sleep would be impossible . |
| 2 | Nothing had been moved , and nothing had been changed , not since that fatal October day , when Ellie had been born and her mother had died . |
| 3 | It was King Henry 's one great gesture against Glendower , and nothing had been spared of loans , and exhortations , and massing of stores , to ensure its success . |
| 4 | ‘ But there were 20 CDs in the car and other valuables and nothing had been taken . |
| 5 | Subsequently when I got back down and realised we 'd done it , and everyone had got off the mountain and no-one had been injured , I had an immense feeling of satisfaction , just of having stood there . |
| 6 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 7 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 8 | Stood outside and I 'd been rung up |
| 9 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 10 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 11 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 12 | Forbidden to speak any language but French , Marius and I had been punished by the Corporals for speaking English while dismantling the tents at Canjuers . |
| 13 | Fielding and I had been buzzed in , cased , X-rayed and heavy-petted by two security guards in plum blazers . |
| 14 | My mother-in-law helped to run one of the early family planning clinics , and I had been despatched to an appointment with the other doctor ! ) |
| 15 | I had been a vessel of pure water and I had been spilled . |
| 16 | Boot and I had been allocated the less spectacular task of making and using miniature Barkausen-Kurz tubes as possible receivers . |
| 17 | Both Frank and I had been telephoned , informed of remarks supposedly made by the other , and asked for our comments . |
| 18 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 19 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |
| 20 | It was a favourite gambit of his and I had been caught before ; but never so successfully as now . |
| 21 | Yes , Morse was right in one respect : Aldrich , Stratton , and himself had been stationed in or around Oxford in 1944 , and he ( Brown ) had in fact known Stratton vaguely in those far-off days . |
| 22 | The experience of the early Christians depicted in Acts was without doubt an experience of release , as they came to abandon practices which they found restrictive , and which had been encapsulated in laws which served to keep the Jews apart from the rest of the nations . |
| 23 | These sums were separate from the 128,300 million yen which they had already confessed to paying between 1987 and 1990 , and which had been revealed in July 1991 [ see p. 38342 ] . |
| 24 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 25 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 26 | It was decided that Joan should telephone Alexander Atkins at a number which he had given to Derek and which had been discovered to be that of the police station at Dysart . |
| 27 | The rejection of Young 's theory , which poses problems from the point of view of rival methodologies and which had been explained by easily discredited theories such as an appeal to hero worship of Newton , is shown by Worrall to be in complete accord with Lakatos 's methodology . |
| 28 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 29 | Local Education Authorities were jealous of the autonomy that they had enjoyed since 1902 , and which had been consolidated in 1944 : they would not take kindly to being told precisely what to do , and even a persuasive circular about the organization of secondary education was too much for some of them . |
| 30 | The fighting , eventually suppressed with the aid of Interior Ministry troops ( OMON ) , appeared to be between supporters and opponents of the new coalition government which President Rakhmon Nabiyev had been compelled to accept in May ( and which had been refused recognition by Kurgan-Tyube 's neighbouring Kulyab oblast and by Khodjent oblast in the north — see also p. 38916 ) . |