Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 2 | Police said that their two accomplices arrested in Ireland had been carrying several addresses of safe houses in France . |
| 3 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 4 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 5 | Aplin had been asking many questions about Putt , not only in connection with the robberies but with the rape of Anna too . |
| 6 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 7 | Once the senior clerk in the Chancery , Nigel had been given this assignment as a benefice , a reward for long and faithful service to the Crown . |
| 8 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 9 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 10 | Taylor pointed out that pride and eagerness to play for England had been restored these past two games . |
| 11 | The device worked exactly as DeVore had said , but the truth was that he had access only to Tongjiang , and that only because Hans Ebert had been daring enough to take the thing in , risking the possibility that an over-zealous officer might search him , Tolonen 's favourite or no . |
| 12 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 13 | ‘ NatWest had been told that merchant banking was a good idea , but I do n't think they thought much beyond that , with the result that we could plough our own furrow , ’ he says . |
| 14 | A police Rover had been parked half-on the pavement , along with a couple of officers ' cars . |
| 15 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 16 | Turned out she wanted to know if Uncle Adam had been sending any radio messages . |
| 17 | ( Similarly , Datir ( 1978 : 245 ) found that only five of 644 released prisoners in a sample in Maharastra had been granted this . ) |
| 18 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 19 | Lord Wittisham and Miss Fenwick had been to collect some food — the quails I believe — and were passing in a donkey cart as Sir Thomas arrived . |
| 20 | Drivers from the taxi firm WTN used were arriving all the time with equipment , food and people . |
| 21 | It was common practice for marriage registers to record the places of abode of the newly-weds , and what Kendall did was to use this information to construct a crude measure of dissimilarity between villages based on frequency of intermarriage over a long period . |
| 22 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 23 | Twenty one years earlier , Franco had been denied this decoration . |
| 24 | He said 90 per cent of the equipment at Al Atheer had been destroyed this week , though the buildings and laboratories , some with three-foot-thick walls , were built to resist attack . |
| 25 | It incorporates information about pre-literate society into the wider theoretical edifice which Engels and Marx had been building all their lives . |
| 26 | GPA had been developing such new forms of finance , he said , most notably with the launch of ALPS92–1 — the first publicly rated aircraft fund . |
| 27 | Miles had been surrounded all evening , it seemed , by droves of tinselled ladies . |
| 28 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 29 | Pike was pointing to the grass near to where Mr Marr had been sitting that night . |
| 30 | Gosse had been watching all in silence , his jaw clenched , his neck muscles taut . |