Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her young men hitherto had been in the City , or in advertising , chartered accountancy , or even television . |
| 2 | Their last work together had been with a dead child . |
| 3 | At the end of an hour , only one ‘ little feller ’ too young to know better had been in Auguste 's possession , and William and Joseph were scarcely able to restrain their mirth . |
| 4 | No , I have n't that information , tha that that detail was asked for , but I do know that er that certainly in a majority of cases because they are local erm the attendance from tenants was certainly substantial and I would of , but certainly far more than you would expected if the panel perhaps had been inside a . |
| 5 | The house alone had been like a dream come true after the two-bedroomed flat on the outskirts of Stirling where she and her mother had lived in near penury for the past seven years since Shiona 's father 's death . |
| 6 | ‘ Best investment I ever made was in that place . |
| 7 | But the funniest expression I ever heard was in New Zealand where I was staying with friends of mine and their young daughter . |
| 8 | ‘ I always fancied being on TV , ’ Marie says , giving a bow . |
| 9 | Gorey is easy to find , out on the east coast , looking out over the sands and round to the point where the castle I always thought was in St Helier actually is . |
| 10 | Before you get the idea that such a bias occurs only in national competitions , I would like to point out that the worse case of this I ever saw was in a world championship . |
| 11 | Anythin' I ever did was for me family . |
| 12 | The worst thing they ever did was on the leader page , the last one they got rid of the Extended Titling on . |
| 13 | ‘ She had not had an easy life , especially towards the end , but the impression she always gave was of courage . |
| 14 | The mine I always pictured was for lead , |
| 15 | The first medal I ever won was in the egg and spoon race . |
| 16 | In his first schoolboy poetry the theme had been of love withered and decayed — practically the last lines he ever wrote were of " the certainty of love unchanging " . |
| 17 | However the girls took the dog upstairs where it wolfed all that was left of the lasagne and went to sleep in front of the hearth , quieter than it ever had been at the Castello Crocetto . |
| 18 | Bradshaw and Millar found that 24 per cent of lone mothers who were or ever had been on income support said they had been , or would be , unwilling to give such information to the DSS . |
| 19 | ‘ But do you know , I think the happiest time I ever had was in the army ; though there were some funny times , real bad times . |
| 20 | ‘ At the same time , the saddest call I ever had was from a boy who said he had marvellous parents who gave him everything . |
| 21 | Quite apart form the new radical Arab regimes , the Soviet Union remained a bellicoes , threatening neighbour — as Russia almost always had been to Persia . |
| 22 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 23 | The new man was soon in contact with Hardwick , who travelled to Stockport to discuss fittings for the School and who presented on 26th July what he probably thought was to be his final report , |
| 24 | The show was called The Mary Whitehouse Experience ( which I later learned was in honour of the blue-nose lady who 's always sounding off about too much sex in the media ) . |
| 25 | After had been at U.C.L. for a few months , the C.R.C . |
| 26 | His interest in humanity now was stone dead , and probably had been for some time . |
| 27 | Clearly Fjortoft ( who has sucked at Swindon , not a single goal yet ! ) and maybe also Sorloth ( who as before mentioned was at a 14-day trial at Leeds and scored in all his test matches ) will be picked . |
| 28 | Because both ends of the Thornton Heath route on which they now worked were in congested streets , two trolley poles were fitted , one for each direction of travel . |
| 29 | But I really loved being with the Spencers ’ |
| 30 | Emily Faithfull herself rather naively replied to one questioner : Suppose a printer receives from 30s to 36s a week and suppose his wages were reduced 10s per week , and his daughters who before had been in no employment receive each 10s , 12s or 15s … |