Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 2 | The Moroccan restaurants that I tried were obviously set up for tourists . |
| 3 | Sam Yaeger spent Monday at the boatyard because he 'd been medically stood down from racing as a result of a fall , but by Tuesday he was racing again , and on Wednesday he rode at Ascot , so the boathouse was vulnerable all day Tuesday and again Wednesday morning . ’ |
| 4 | Incredible as it seemed , she 'd been too caught up in her own unhappiness to give a second 's thought to the play , which was due to open that very evening . |
| 5 | She 'd been so caught up in her thoughts that the voice near her side came as a shock , but even as she turned she realised the words had n't been aimed at her . |
| 6 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 7 | She had been partially knocked out during the fight and was lying on the ground . |
| 8 | A DISSIDENT woman poet , jailed for opposing the government had been unconditionally released early from prison , Cuba 's Foreign Ministry said last night . |
| 9 | The economies of all fifteen Soviet republics had been closely bound together in an all-union division of labour ; about 20 per cent of their national income represented trade with other republics , as compared ( for instance ) with the European Community , only 16 per cent of whose trade was with other members . |
| 10 | Even Dmitri 's sorrow had been mostly used up by the fading of his father 's life , remorselessly , year by year . |
| 11 | All she had to do was imply , without ever actually saying so , that the reins had been temporarily handed over to her . |
| 12 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 13 | This immediately limited the number of towns that could be planned , for most English towns have developed from villages , and their sites had been partly built on for centuries before they developed into towns . |
| 14 | That kiss , which had left her feeling totally shattered , had been clearly meant more as a punishment than a pleasure . |
| 15 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 16 | The training of the vernacular clergy had been in the hands of Arthur Dilworth , the first time that a missionary had been completely set aside for this important task . |
| 17 | After the concert , guests went into the garden which had been completely tented over for supper . |
| 18 | At first he had been simply bowled over by her enormous beauty , her laughter , her charm . |
| 19 | Matters in fact agreed at the winter meeting were kept secret and brought before the summer one " as if nothing had been previously worked out concerning them " . |
| 20 | The faded newspaper from the sky had been carefully spread out on the floor of one of the old sheds . |
| 21 | This had been again held back in September because of Argentina 's failure to meet economic performance targets . |
| 22 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 23 | The jury 's verdict appeared to have resulted from the acceptance by some of its members that Barry had been unfairly singled out for prosecution , a central tenet of the mayor 's defence strategy . |
| 24 | When the earth had been finally pressed down round the tree roots , Peter Dawson had put his arm round his wife 's tiny waist and they had surveyed their handiwork with obvious satisfaction . |
| 25 | He should not be nervous : by the time he arrives on stage just before the end of the first act the youngsters in the audience had been thoroughly warmed up by all the silliness created by Michael Barrymore and the Roly Polys ; the bruisers from Essex who turned up to see their hero had been thoroughly oiled with lager and were ready to send their love across the footlights . |
| 26 | While the symbols of civilization processed with full panoply of State through the streets of London , out on the eastern marshes the North Sea nudged at the coastal defences which had been hastily shored up after the calamity just four months before . |
| 27 | The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A was later to claim that Kent , Sussex , Essex and Surrey had been wrongfully forced away from the kindred of Ecgberht , son of Ealhmund , king of the West Saxons ( AS C A , s.a. 823 ) . |
| 28 | And the hair that looked as though it had been dramatically carved out of something shiny rather than been grown in the normal way . |
| 29 | It had been specially flown in from Duxford Air Museum in Cambridgeshire and for the veterans and locals of Parham it was a picture they 'll never forget . |
| 30 | At the new master 's decree , today was to be a day of merrymaking : workers from his nearby shoe factory had been specially brought in by charabanc , and a syndicate of local industrialists had also gathered for the festivities . |