Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry — it was a dead cert ! |
| 2 | Perhaps the only creature to rouse what could be construed as a maternal sense in my heart had been the Egyptian cat , and Nour had killed it . |
| 3 | ‘ He said my hair had been badly cut , ’ says Susan . |
| 4 | I had also , as it were , ‘ fallen in line ’ again , so that although I believed , my faith had been marked by a continuing lack of personal conviction . |
| 5 | My case had been destroyed by a rogue conveyor belt , ’ she said , wanting to explain her unconventional luggage . |
| 6 | The ‘ something ’ in my chest had been identified . |
| 7 | I was teaching until 1966 and my experience had been largely directed at explanation . |
| 8 | The first person to dent my euphoria had been Brian Moore , ITV 's match commentator for West Ham versus some town up North , later that same afternoon . |
| 9 | Then all of a sudden my enthusiasm had been replaced with deep anxiety and apprehension for what actually lay ahead of me . |
| 10 | The armed men eventually let me retrieve my bag and notebook — my money had been taken — and remain in the lobby . |
| 11 | ‘ If one of my lecturers had been murdered , I would n't like to hear someone gloating about the details . ’ |
| 12 | when we , ma when my mum had been married twenty five years that time . |
| 13 | My mum brought be down yesterday . |
| 14 | My clerk had been transferred to there . |
| 15 | I wondered , when I set off to get it , if my notoriety had been communicated on the jungle drums and if the promised purchase might still elude me , so I was especially glad to have it safely at home . |
| 16 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 17 | I had not before realised that my canoe had been following me but I soon felt it as the point hit my back and then went down underneath me , dragging me down and sandwiching me between the canoe and the tree . |
| 18 | My sparrow had been lucky that I scared the cat off when I did . |
| 19 | My underwear had been removed and left torn in half on my bed . |
| 20 | ‘ I landed on a lump of wood , felt another crash on to my face and was just getting up when a huge piece of glass fell where my neck had been . |
| 21 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 22 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 23 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 24 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 25 | In my experience , the marriage bed was uncomfortable , even distasteful , and invariably boring , whereas sex with my lover had been a revelation . |
| 26 | Another pictorial ‘ must ’ which my agent missed was the exciting monoline , which now serves the city , and for which several new stations have been erected in the past couple of years . |
| 27 | Another pictorial ‘ must ’ which my agent missed was the exciting monoline , which now serves the city , and for which several new stations have been erected in the past couple of years . |
| 28 | All the contents of my locker had been tipped into a blanket . |
| 29 | I was so purified and uplifted that when I came out and discovered my car had been towed away and I 'd have to fork out 70 quid , I was completely unruffled . |
| 30 | I would drive a few yards through the gate marked ‘ private ’ and instantly be set upon by men wielding knobbly aluminium clubs , or I would return from the walk to find my car had been smelted into a set of folding tubular garden furniture . |