Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 2 | For Miss Green , Lee 's appointment was perceived as an explicit threat simply because in the previous year , renewal of the Cassell Trust 's grant had not been easily secured and had been made on the understanding that the 1930 renewal was to extend only for a further and final two years . |
| 3 | The days of the Prize Ring were such a brutal business , fought under rules which enabled men to inflict terrible injuries on each other , and fights were fought to a finish when a man was downed and had been battered into insensibility . |
| 4 | When life-expectancy figures are calculated , everyone who has been born and died is taken into account in arriving at the average life-expectancy figures . |
| 5 | When privatised , the new plc was required to improve the river and the water supply as it had been hoping to do and had been prevented from doing . |
| 6 | When her alarm woke her up the next morning , she felt heavy-eyed and lacking in energy , but that was probably because her sleep had been long in coming and had been plagued with dreams when she had eventually managed to drop off . |
| 7 | He had refused and had been put before a firing-squad with a number of the villagers . |
| 8 | Seb could see the growing knot of men and the light of their torches , but now the shouting had ceased and had been replaced by a low , angry murmur . |
| 9 | She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure . |
| 10 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 11 | Namawar and had been sent to hell-fire , came back in loud and strong . |
| 12 | In 1953 a detailed examination of the Piltdown remains demonstrated conclusively that they were faked and had been planted as part of an elaborate hoax , evidently aimed at manipulating scientific views on human evolution . |
| 13 | If children had already married and had been provided for a will was not necessary . |