Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Consultation with the next of kin has a further advantage in that it may reveal information as to the personal circumstances of the patient and as to the choice which the patient might have made , if he or she had been in a position to make it .
2 But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 .
3 Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere .
4 And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes .
5 I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality .
6 And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes .
7 They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together .
8 Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason …
9 I thought it would be quicker , you see and I 'd been in the services as well , because I used to give a subscription to British Legion
10 , we went in the August and they were back by September , so he could start back well school and I 'd been in , in the summer holidays and they said and I felt poor little bastard , got to start a new school , he ai n't gon na know anybody
11 A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes .
12 Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ .
13 as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris .
14 And having confided in her , she discussed her troubles with Don Burrell , the Canadian with whom she had stayed when on a school exchange to the States and who had been like a second father since the death of her own .
15 It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her .
16 But Bicker had seen her wandering Glenbrittle , and she had been to the bothy .
17 The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time .
18 But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time .
19 All he had wanted was to slake his own desires , and she had been on hand , a willing and eager victim .
20 And she had been in London for less than a month .
21 They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do .
22 But initially there had to be a real , genuine erm working class revolution and therefore Marx looked first to England because we were the most advanced and we 'd been in the business of running capitalism for s so much longer than any other country in the world .
23 There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks .
24 There was a dawdle in its pace , and there had been times when it had halted completely , other times when it had slowed to a crawl .
25 She had been getting though the days — and nights — without too many problems , and there had been times when she had almost felt happy .
26 And there 'd been like a half door going to the shop like there you know .
27 They 'd been to the hospital , and they 'd been over the flat so I said to them well pop the blankets on and come over here then and have your supper and go back .
28 However fourteen days later they were still pulling out er live babies and they 'd been in there in the rubble for fourteen days .
29 She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education .
30 Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars .
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