Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it was a good thing I was n't impatient , because the entertainment Linda and Emelda provided was far superior to anything I could have managed. ! |
| 2 | The land Captain Meredith bought is there , not in Jamaica . |
| 3 | In disturbances preceding the takeover , the former Prime Minister V. P. Singh had been briefly arrested near Ayodhya on Oct. 29 after protesting against moves to build a Hindu temple on the site . |
| 4 | Singh had been under intense political pressure to reduce the increase in fertilizer prices . |
| 5 | Chuan had been under considerable pressure to appoint the Democrat Party secretary-general , Maj.-Gen. |
| 6 | If only Corbett had been elsewhere . |
| 7 | Kuwait had been particularly concerned about the plans for an American Rapid Deployment Force . |
| 8 | Tammuz had been so gentle that there 'd hardly been any pain , expertly coaxing each orifice to orgasm until Zambia felt SHe must die from sensory overload . |
| 9 | For a second Sara looked blankly at him and then she suddenly remembered the little man who had called to see Matthew the day Fairfax had been there . |
| 10 | Relations between India and Pakistan had been severely strained during 1990 as a result of the revolt in disputed Kashmir . |
| 11 | Donna had been too small to travel before then . ’ |
| 12 | Muhammad al-Fasi had been publicly critical of the Saudi Arabian Government during the Gulf crisis and its aftermath . |
| 13 | The thought of an immediate confrontation with Jake was not one which Shiona had been particularly relishing . |
| 14 | Gorbachev had been formally nominated by the CPSU central committee , which had held a brief meeting on March 14 . |
| 15 | Emilia had been long sick with pregnancy ; she had lost the child ; and somewhere she was terribly afraid . |
| 16 | After David had been there a couple of weeks , I used to go off doing odd bits of work in London , working as a journalist , although I was n't very keen on that side of my life at the time — there were other things that interested me more . |
| 17 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 18 | The spectre of the great apostasy was always a threat to the more ideologically committed evangelicals but Terence O'Neill 's reforms , tepid and half-hearted as they were , raised the spectre to a power and status from which it threatened a far greater number of rural Presbyterians who saw the proposed changes as proof that Paisley had been right all along . |
| 19 | The sort of surplus Paisley had is sometimes called a " primary " surplus because it derives exclusively from first-preference votes . |
| 20 | When he called Mary-Claude , he learned that Tony Asmar had been fatally injured in a bomb explosion at his office in Karantina . |
| 21 | The agent was older than her father , but Hyacinth had been well brought up , and at least it was an escape from the national chairman ; prettily she agreed to dance with him . |
| 22 | Ralph ( Hyacinth had been swiftly urged to drop the ‘ Sir ’ by her genial host ) called for him to be removed , by force if necessary , refusing to believe that so demotic a figure belonged to ‘ our great Party ’ . |
| 23 | Relations with the United States had been severely strained by the Labour government 's ban on nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships entering New Zealand ports or waters . |
| 24 | Well yes , Angie had been very busy and preoccupied with the wedding preparations , naturally , but she had been happy . |
| 25 | Ashton had shouted one last thing at him , but Steven had been too far away , breathing deeply , an expression of triumph on his face , He 'd got away from them . |
| 26 | Last week Prost admitted that his reaction to the incident in Portugal had been perhaps ‘ slightly exaggerated . ’ |
| 27 | Instantly Leith 's thoughts flew to her own mother and how , should she ever see Sebastian looking as drawn and haggard as Travis had been just lately , she would more than likely be halfway demented too . |
| 28 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |
| 29 | Millie had been home for nearly three months when she received a letter from Annabel . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |