Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adj] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had advised her to have the baby adopted , told her she 'd not be able to earn a living for them both , but she 'd been willful and gone her own way . |
| 2 | When Jeanne had found herself separated from Madeleine , she 'd been distraught and convinced her friend had been killed . |
| 3 | I walked fast — my feet stood up to it very well , I 'd been sensible and worn my trainers not my nice stiletto wobblers , but it still took me a fair old time to get to somewhere possible . |
| 4 | If they 'd been wise and told their government that this tax should not happen , as indeed many of their former ministers , like Michael Heseltine said , they 'd said it was incredibly complicated although seemed sounding easy , and would in fact bring higher levels of taxation to the lowest income people , then er if the local tories had actually acted on that and put pressure on their central party , perhaps their government would n't be in such a mess about this issue now . |
| 5 | His eyes blackened angrily and Ruth supposed she had been right and exposed him for what he was — a cool bastard . |
| 6 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 7 | Thus that dappled skin , peeled from a mutant , both reminded him of how he had been orphaned and reproached him too . |
| 8 | I had been happy and thought he would n't mind . |
| 9 | When she saw her gesture performed by a sister who had been admiring and imitating her from earliest childhood , she felt a certain unease : the adult gesture did not fit an eleven-year-old child . |