Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 2 | Hugh was 62 years ' old and had been with Douglas Reyburn for 28 years . |
| 3 | He was 6 years old and had been at the school for three terms when the head , knowing that I was a neighbour and friend of Balbinder 's mother , invited me to go with Mrs Singh to a meeting with the educational psychologist . |
| 4 | My suit case was ready packed and had been for the last week . |
| 5 | Mr. Bell denied being drunk and disorderly and denied being in breach of the bail condition . |
| 6 | The Wingti government also claimed that the army 's advance was largely unresisted and had been in response to the invitation of local chiefs . |
| 7 | She was very tidy and had been as a child , she said ‘ I 'm obssessive ’ . |
| 8 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
| 9 | The man was a fellow-American and had been on a tour of European branches for the previous three days . |
| 10 | The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings . |
| 11 | Of the sixteen women in their survey who were currently working-class and had been in institutional care , ten had premarital pregnancies . |