Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [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 | ‘ If one of my lecturers had been murdered , I would n't like to hear someone gloating about the details . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 5 | No way could a person eat something like that — not that I had any intention of killing and consuming the poor creature , now that my eyes had been opened . |
| 6 | I could not see well , my eyes had been dazzled , after the darkness , by the candle . |
| 7 | My eyes had been glared dark . |
| 8 | I should have kept my silence , for the only purpose my words served was to demonstrate my disbelief in Billingsley 's outrageous explanation . |
| 9 | So far as I was aware , my functions had been reasonably normal . |
| 10 | When I got the nod that the Government was looking for ex-army officers to form a new force for service in Ireland , I tell you , Eric , I thought my prayers had been answered . ’ |
| 11 | My trousers had been removed with some force as my right leg was in a great deal of pain around the cast . |
| 12 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 13 | My cassettes had been removed from the rack separating the front seats during a half-hearted attempt at car valeting , and I had n't replaced them . |
| 14 | ‘ I bought the local paper at Bath Station and the Evening Standard at Paddington just to see how many of my team-mates had been named , but there was no mention of the squad , ’ he added . |
| 15 | How foolish my dreams had been ! |
| 16 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 17 | That my advisors had been bribed … |
| 18 | When I was a kid all my teachers had been classified as old . |
| 19 | All my friends had been transformed , their faces shone , they could n't move , while I just rolled my tie up and down and counted the bars on the radiator . |
| 20 | I would never try on something revealing like a swimming costume in a communal changing room , because when I was bigger I 'd be thinking everyone would be looking at the bulgy bits thinking how fat I was ( well , this is what I thought after I found out what my friends had been saying ) , and now I would feel too self-conscious because other girls would be thinking how skinny I look . |
| 21 | Me and all my friends had been having this really great scuttle . |
| 22 | My clothes had been dried and rough-ironed . |
| 23 | But I had not had a winner since December 27 when Mr Entertainer won at Kempton Park , and many of my horses had been sick . ’ |
| 24 | The first thing my livingstonii did was to develop white spot , unusual in cichlids and the more so in Mbuna , and it was while they were undergoing treatment in methylene blue that I started to learn what characters they can be . |
| 25 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |
| 26 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 27 | There was an ache in my middle as if a rock was lodged in the place where all my habits had been — my going-to-bed routine of always brushing my teeth last thing of all so that my mouth felt glowing fresh before I curled up under my duvet and drifted off into sleep . |
| 28 | One of the early steps that I and my colleagues took was to encourage the removal of intermediate layers , and to try to apply the theory of ‘ added value ’ to hierarchical organization . |
| 29 | My buttons had been polished all right — I was keen on them . |
| 30 | Only the eagle badge on their shakos had been changed , replaced by a ‘ W ’ for King William of the Netherlands , but otherwise the Dutch-Belgians were dressed exactly like the men they were doubtless about to fight . |