Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 2 | While 39 per cent of those unemployed for up to six months were manual workers , this group made up almost half the unemployed who had been without work for between two and three years . |
| 3 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 4 | The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal . |
| 5 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 6 | How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's how dependent he had been on her . ’ |
| 8 | Any form of limited franchise , such as that which had been in operation since 1815 , was a direct affront to the principles of 1789 , which had declared the people to be sovereign . |
| 9 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 10 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 11 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 12 | After that she had been at pains to assure him she could cope very well and was about to go to see her inheritance . |
| 13 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 14 | Helen , who had been so calm during the night , was now cold and shaking with delayed shock , and Anne told her how glad she had been of her company . |
| 15 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
| 16 | The warm feeling induced by the spirit made her aware of how cold she had been since hearing the news . |
| 17 | All I had was in that crate , its death |
| 18 | ‘ All the same , ’ she said , ‘ all I meant was for her to break a leg . ’ |
| 19 | And you kept trying all those complicated ways of pleasing me , but all I wanted was for you just to want me . ’ |
| 20 | Now all I wanted was for James to ask me out and I would 've when out with him you know . |
| 21 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 22 | All I wanted was to be away from Hampton Court before I further incurred Henry 's wrath . |
| 23 | All I did was to out on a raid — unofficially . |
| 24 | ‘ Then what made you so sure somebody 'd been in ? |
| 25 | Rupert had never met Everard 's mother , but remembering his own mother and how comforting she had been in his childhood illnesses he was immediately reassured . |
| 26 | Sure she 'd been with you , SOE . |
| 27 | She once confessed how unhappy she had been at home . |
| 28 | Only then did she realise that , for all she had been in his company for a total of several hours now , she still did n't know the first thing about him . |
| 29 | How could I tell her the truth , after all she 'd been through ? ’ |
| 30 | All she wanted was for him to leave and take his tantalising , lying promises away with him . |