Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many of them by now had been in Malta for several months … and ever since Italy had entered into the war , these boys , often in obsolete aircraft , had carried out bravely and unquestioning , any task that they had been called upon to perform . |
| 32 | This neutralised the efforts of the consortium since all funds committed so far had been for the purchase of the collection intact ; they could not be used for individual sale bids or any subsequent related negotiations . |
| 33 | Someone moved , close by , someone whose approach so far had been in silence , and she quickly took her hand away . |
| 34 | Both those ideas now said were in our future targets . |
| 35 | All he really wanted was to be next to O ; and you could see that the whole time he was listening , watching . |
| 36 | But what Kenneth really wanted was to be where the action is , on the footplate . |
| 37 | Where Hobson and Angell really diverged was in their assessment of the attitudes of the rich towards international conflict short of war itself . |
| 38 | I finally said the only thing I damn well wanted was for them to leave so I could get to the hospital . |
| 39 | She could almost smell the rich fermentation of silage like there 'd been around parts of Ecoville , or the green alkali of the air-plants . |
| 40 | I quite liked being on my own , most of the time . ’ |
| 41 | Most other wars prior had been over land or religion , this was over ideology . |
| 42 | Britain by then had been at war with Germany for two years , but the Soviet Union was only drawn into the conflict in June by a sudden German invasion , whilst the US entered the war in December after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . |
| 43 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 44 | As a youngest son his own prospects had been poor — his sojourn abroad had been in the company of his rich younger cousin Francis Whithead , to whom he may initially have acted as tutor — but on the death of his only surviving brother Anthony in 1754 he unexpectedly succeeded to the family estates . |
| 45 | All the land out there had been under water once . |
| 46 | He said figures revealed there from 1978–93 there had been at least 57 suicides within the force but that the police authorities were reluctant to admit this . |
| 47 | Another seven people murdered in Northern Ireland , a dreadful end to a dreadful week , and yet on Friday there had been at least a little optimism in the air , John Major and Albert Reynolds getting together in Brussels for what were billed as substantive talks , where does all that go now ? |
| 48 | And having arrived at so much in the way of a comparison , she saw , suddenly revealed to her , how much there had been in those other rooms to admire . |
| 49 | One of the most farcical rivalries was that which existed for a time between two groups of prisoners who earlier had been in different Oflags . |
| 50 | It was not until the last hymn that Ianthe happened to turn her head slightly and not so much see him as become conscious that he was sitting behind her and presumably had been throughout the service . |
| 51 | The idea of marriage into the royal house of France had been openly raised at least as early as September 1543 , and presumably had been in the mind of Mary of Guise long before that . |
| 52 | In addition , the Rayner review of the service introduced not only cuts but a new philosophy that official figures , which previously had been for the service of the nation as a whole , were now to be tied far more closely to the requirements of the government of the day . |
| 53 | Alone of the 15 union republics , the Russian Federation previously had been without its own Communist Party , its party organizations being an integral part of the CPSU . |
| 54 | You would think that somebody else had been in control of our public finances for the past fourteen years . ’ |
| 55 | Of their own volition , her hands tightened in his hair , forcing his head forwards , and she responded to his kiss with a passion she never knew was within her . |
| 56 | Another lovely walk that the family occasionally took was to West Harnham or as it was known locally ‘ Watery Harnham ’ , a fitting nickname for there was always plenty in the rivers , streams and water meadows . |
| 57 | No such co-operation was possible in the sphere of taxation , but then it never had been under the Tsars , so Bolshevik extortion seemed hardly more arbitrary than previous methods . |
| 58 | He too had been at Oxford , studying Science , and he was another of the twelve prize recruits who marched away from the City of Dreaming Spires . |
| 59 | I rang Bunny because he too had been at university with me , though , funnily enough , I did n't really know him until later . |
| 60 | She too had been to Canonmills and Broughton school ( though she says she was " not very clever " ) and first of all went to work at a draper 's shop in the West End , a job for which she remained still nostalgic . |