Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 2 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 3 | Whatever was or had been between Matthew and Jenny was not yet resolved , Sara realised from Jenny 's preoccupation with the man . |
| 4 | She tended to do it of late years by proxy , as it were : she was good — or had been before the advent of the Reverend Hereward Marr — at manning the tea-urn at the church social . |
| 5 | This is a parish in the counties of Argyll , Inverness-shire , Ross and Cromarty , Sutherland , Caithness and the northern islands where there was in 1886 , or had been in the previous 80 years , holdings of arable land with rights of common pasture . |
| 6 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 7 | Anyone who 'd paid money for their dog , or did n't know where it had been , should take it to the god in Lāmri to be blessed and cured : and if anyone had been bitten recently , or had been in contact with the rabid dog , they too should see that god . |
| 8 | If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter . |
| 9 | We learned that there were still , or had been in the late 1950s , a fair number of working schooners in Nova Scotia . |
| 10 | Or had been in the right . |
| 11 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 12 | ‘ All three were working for INCUBUS — or had been until recently . |
| 13 | Bonington commented on his experiences at sea : ‘ I am not a natural sailor and found being on a very small boat without exercise very trying . |
| 14 | This time he did n't miss , he shot past Stowell and United were on level terms , amazingly , they almost snatched the lead a minute later when a brilliant save by Stowell denied Simpson once again . |
| 15 | The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the factory towns and the mines were not far off as they were in the South , and the northern peasant was used to a hard life ; he was not forced to stay on the land as a pauper , since employers and employed were in the same economic difficulties and regarded each other as of nearly the same status . |
| 17 | He thought compatibility and interests which could be shared and understood were of prime importance . |
| 18 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , said the first he had heard that the men , women and children sent back from the British-occupied zone of Austria had been tortured and massacred was from Count Tolstoy in 1979 . |
| 19 | The sexual relationship between the victim and accused was on occasions the focal point of the press coverage . |
| 20 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 21 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 22 | For a long time now Luce had been a great admirer of Peter Sebastian 's work , and had been over the moon when she 'd been approached and offered this wonderful opportunity . |
| 23 | Fortunately for Quinn , Sam was a trained agent , and had been through her apprenticeship in stake-out duties , than which nothing is more boring . |
| 24 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
| 25 | Answers to questions about their fellow workers ' reactions when they heard the news of planned redundancies suggested a difference in attitude between some of those who were close to pension age and had been with the company for long periods and other workers . |
| 26 | She 'd accompanied Chicot on several sorties against Nazi occupation troops , and had been with the gang on a daring bank raid . |
| 27 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 28 | Hugh was 62 years ' old and had been with Douglas Reyburn for 28 years . |
| 29 | Given the previous level of set-net effort , however , the population was probably originally much larger , and had been on the decrease for many years , at least since the rapid expansion of set-net use in the mid 1970s . |
| 30 | Wheeler said he had been a member of the force for twelve and a half years and had been on duty on the Docks since last August . |