Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adv] [det] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceiling and the walls in places were badly scorched , but structurally there had been very little damage and , luckily , the fire had been brought under control before it had had time to spread to other parts of the building . |
| 2 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 3 | There had been so much misfortune that to endure any more would be as a dumb beast might endure it ; and what would become of Dinah and the child ? |
| 4 | I said that there had been substantially more submissions than the number he gave . |
| 5 | By now we had been there several hours and things were n't looking very optimistic . |