Example sentences of "miss [noun prp] [vb past] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Marshall had been employed by the Southampton & South West Hampshire Area Health Authority as a senior dietitian . |
| 2 | The last time Ballater had been in the cottage was just before Miss Marshall had been forced out of it by her rapacious relatives , backed up by the insensitive local general practitioner who agreed she could n't cope . |
| 3 | After Miss Chalk had been retained for 5,000 guineas David said : ‘ I think my father is pleased . |
| 4 | Mrs Jonker , of Southport , said Miss Owen had been sacked for gross misconduct after written and verbal warnings . |
| 5 | She added that Miss Owen had been sacked for asking the elderly residents their views about another member of staff . |
| 6 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 7 | Mr Goldring said Miss Lowe had been injected with a very large amount of insulin . |
| 8 | In his Autobiography de Quincey records that Miss Beswick had been placed ‘ in a common English clock case , having the usual glass face ; but a veil of white velvet obscured from all profane eyes the silent features behind ’ . |