Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have looked up my own record over the past six months , and I find that the only courthouse whose closure I approved was in Leicestershire and was precisely 500 yd from a new courthouse costing £8 million which we had erected to take its place . |
| 2 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 3 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 4 | By and large , the war passed us by in Baldersdale , although we had to go through the business of putting black-out curtains at all the windows , even though all the light we had was from oil lamps . |
| 5 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 6 | A little Gibraltarian girl with pneumonia in both lungs , was not responding to the May and Baker Lung resection I knew was in progress . |
| 7 | I 'll need dog-handlers immediately and they 'll have to be sent out to Pontino , there 's no need for them to check in here first — the girl they released is in shock . |
| 8 | The first column he wrote was about art and forgery , and he titled it ‘ Art and other scenes ’ . |
| 9 | Yet it would seem that Lenin well understood the kind of mediation that would be required between bureaucracy and the working class and that this is shown by his emphasis on the need to prevent the bureaucracy emerging under socialism as the privileged social stratum it had been under capitalism . |
| 10 | Of course she had been in love , for years and years , and perhaps , she sometimes wondered , that experience had spoiled her . |
| 11 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 12 | The tousled girl in front of me , she was reading a buxom magazine : its text was in French , I think , but even I could tell that the article she scanned was about fellatio technique — blowjob knowhow . |
| 13 | There had obviously been something wrong with the Cashman ménage for some time — why else would Cindy Hill have lied about her whereabouts , telling her husband she had been in Wales when she had really been in a London nightclub ? |
| 14 | That they took on the importance they did was in part the fault of the government . |
| 15 | The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK . |
| 16 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 17 | For a while she had been in paradise ; now it was over . |
| 18 | Another outing we enjoyed was to Mayell 's Chocolate Factory , where for $2 you can tour the factory and eat as many of the products as you want . |
| 19 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 20 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 21 | This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home . |
| 22 | The 28-year-old has made only 10 appearances all season , and the last Premier League game he started was against Oldham back on September 12 . |
| 23 | The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family — to celebrate the completion of the pageant . |
| 24 | For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ? |
| 25 | The oddest call she had was from Teesside airport , where one was stuck up a drainpipe making squeaking noises . |
| 26 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 27 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |
| 28 | In earlier life he had been in Canada and it is certain that at least some youthful potential emigrants to Canada were inspired by his accounts of life there . |
| 29 | To face herself in a mirror without flinching : neat mid-brown hair that grew in orderly waves , a little longer than her father would have liked , almost to her shoulders , but not the shaggy bird 's nest it had been on Mars . |
| 30 | The Wey and Arun Junction Canal was formally closed in 1871 , leaving Newbridge Wharf as the terminus it had been before construction of this waterway , until the closure of the Arun Navigation in 1888 . |