Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only ‘ Spinster ’ and ‘ Bawd ’ , two poems that I suddenly realised were dramatic monologues anyway . |
| 2 | And so Rose was patient with her fits of crying and her colic and her teething fretfulness . |
| 3 | I was aware of your love of language and literature and the involvement which you obviously felt was contagious , and came over to me as being very real . |
| 4 | Slave owners who became Christians revolutionised their treatment of slaves , giving to them the justice and the fair treatment that hitherto had been unknown in the ancient world . |
| 5 | It had been all very well announcing that he was going to make a privateering cruise , but the preparations for it and the difficulties in getting a crew together had been enormous . |
| 6 | Much had been wrong . |
| 7 | The justices in the court below had been right to conclude that the police had ‘ reasonable grounds for believing that , if they were not present at the meeting , there would be seditious speeches and other incitements to violence and breaches of the peace would occur ’ . |
| 8 | The Labour Council , elected in 1982 , had as a stated policy aim that every child whose parents so wished was entitled to a pre-school place of some sort . |
| 9 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
| 10 | Three of the four he had interviewed personally had been evasive , or told outright lies . |
| 11 | The report added that the Waddington screen controllers involved were ‘ not to undertake screening duties until their competence to do so had been subject to a further check ’ . |
| 12 | He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then . |
| 13 | They exchanged looks to the effect that the experience just over had been rough and unpleasant . |
| 14 | Tonight had been beautiful . |
| 15 | While the golf trade generally had been slow to respond , the R & A continued its generous support and the Gus Payne Trophy for the highest club donation to the annual appeal went to Wentworth , which raised a record total of £9,005 . |
| 16 | Whereas in the immediate aftermath of the Manifesto , the landed nobility and conservative interests generally had been disorientated and ill-organized during 1906 their influence over the government was rapidly consolidated . |
| 17 | October already had been action-packed , with a talk by local historian Bert Starkey — ‘ The main thrust for good in Victorian Runcorn came from Methodism ; there were 18 chapels within one square mile , ’ — and a brilliant display of dancing by the over-forties at the dinner/dance . |
| 18 | He pointed out , however , that since Mr Brown had already ‘ gone public ’ , he could reveal that the council already had been successful in obtaining a court decree against the former MP . |
| 19 | It takes time for the validity or fruitfulness of any academic development to become clear , and too rapid a response to intellectual fashions could leave institutions with an embarrassing residue of dubious courses , which once installed are difficult to dislodge . |
| 20 | Joseph of Arimathea — the only man he ever buried was alive and well three days later ! |
| 21 | All Lucy ever showed was embarrassed appreciation . |
| 22 | In Milan the victims and suspected victims — and it is hard to believe that non-sufferers ever survived being suspected sufferers — were herded in to a custom-built enclosure . |
| 23 | Yet no-one could ever have doubted either his sincerity or integrity in fighting for what he always felt was right for the game . |
| 24 | As a student of child abuse , I regularly encountered forms of cruelty to children I hardly thought were possible . |
| 25 | I always thought being famous was the only thing worth doing in human life , and anything else was just perfunctory . |
| 26 | I 'll just put a little bit wispy in the back because when I was in Hans ' class , the best triangle I ever did was lovely , really pleased with it and it collapsed did n't it ? |
| 27 | A lumpish Belgian girl called Lise who did menial tasks about the house but hardly ever spoke was grating cheese over a rice dish . |
| 28 | Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status . |
| 29 | Most were delegated by their Churches , a few were especially invited — ‘ as motley a group of ‘ non-Catholics ’ as ever had been assembled' , as Dr Albert Outler , one of their number , described them in ‘ Strangers within the Gates ’ ( see Outler , 1986 , p. 173 ) . |
| 30 | And beneath their feeding place where yesterday had been snowy white , was today damp and brown with mud and warm droppings . |