Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any tension experienced was not in the interactional elements of the scene but in the psychological strain of finding an inner logic to their searching . |
| 2 | Murder accused was out on bail , magistrates told |
| 3 | Not content with blackguarding him in the columns of the local rag , him and his silly daughter 's bum , the one-time Chief Citizen of the Borough had been up to no good with a girl young enough to be Grace 's sister , and in the Grand Hotel , and at a Conservative Party conference of all places . |
| 4 | By then the Faulkner administration had been out of existence for some months and hostility to it no longer rallied the public . |
| 5 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 6 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 7 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 8 | The jasmine had been out in Seville the year before … she hoped he 'd remember . |
| 9 | When he was a child , the loft had been out of bounds . |
| 10 | The scene revealed was not without its points of interest . |
| 11 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 12 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 13 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 14 | The plan had been originally for Rohan to marry Antoinette , but because she was the Baronne 's niece , not Gaston 's , the inheritance would have been penalised financially by the government . |
| 15 | Of " voluntary " temporary workers , nearly a half had been out of the labour market entirely 12 months before and only two per cent had been unemployed , but of " involuntary " temporary workers the proportions were just under one third in both cases . |
| 16 | In spite of her affected disinterest , Taureg 's return had been well worth watching . |
| 17 | It so happens that the descendants of the original Indians whose raft capsized were also in charge of another raft that capsized at about the same point in the river . |
| 18 | And the day after Holly had been up to London to apply from the Consulate for a visa there had been the telephone call at Letterworth Engineering . |
| 19 | At the time of the so-called race riots , Shanti and her friends were discussing the events in Manchester , and agreeing that the whole sad business had been more about unemployment than about race . |
| 20 | But , unfortunately , Neil was not even safely ensconced in the house , as he should have been , so Ewen Mackay was free to resume whatever his business had been there on Wednesday night . |
| 21 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 22 | It had disturbed her enough , and even if the unwritten reproof had been solely in her own imagination she was not about to look again and check it . |
| 23 | In yesterday 's constituency profile , the picture featured was not of Mrs Jordan . |
| 24 | The ILP Parliamentary Group had been out of sympathy with the party on two important issues , the Abyssinian War and the Munich agreement . |
| 25 | Sometimes , he assumed the Elder had been around since the Creation . |
| 26 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 27 | Thus , execution in rem can have been available only where the person sued was actually in possession of the object . |
| 28 | Just over 4 in 10 ( 42% ) dependent children in 1987 lived in a household where the head had been out of work for two or more years . |
| 29 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 30 | And as the boat station had been there before nineteen sixty six , probably a hundred years before nineteen sixty six , it was then claimed that this person had adverse possession , which in short , is squatter 's rights . |