Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the months Jay found she liked being around Lucy , enjoyed desiring her and doing nothing about it . |
| 2 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 3 | As for HMS United she had been on station at the rendezvous ; but as it is barely possible to see a 10,000 tonner at 400 yards on a rough night there is little chance of seeing the recognition signals from a canoe when these torch or RG beams are a mere four feet ( just over a metre ) at arm 's length above the waves . |
| 4 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 5 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
| 6 | Endill learnt he had been in the army but was told to leave after forgetting who he was fighting for . |
| 7 | Maggie realized she 'd been in the wrong . |
| 8 | She confirmed she had been to Hawaii with the hunk and said : ‘ We all had a laugh , that 's all . |
| 9 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 10 | But she claimed she liked being with him , she liked making him happy , and she liked doing what he did . |
| 11 | But one worker confirmed they had been in the office and seemed to be completely genuine . |
| 12 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 13 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 14 | The watchmaker confirmed he 'd been with him at two . |
| 15 | Dr McGarry claimed it had been in response to the earlier statement and he welcomed the decision . |
| 16 | The judge said that Alan Murray claimed he had been in the welfare section of the UVF but he said : ‘ Membership of any proscribed organisation is a most serious matter . ’ |
| 17 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 18 | On board was a Maltese deck passenger who boasted he had been in nine different prisons in England ; after we had sailed a friend of his was discovered stowed away in the chain locker . |
| 19 | Connolly denied the charges but the court heard that swabs taken from his hands indicated he had been in contact with explosives and that he was found in possession of a key to the front door of the second house . |
| 20 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 21 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I thought I had been in time . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 24 | I , I had this dream the other night , and it was so real , I thought I 'd been to the cinema . |
| 25 | Rachel suddenly felt she 'd been through an emotional wringer . |
| 26 | One night as she lay in bed with her husband , she heard ‘ a sound of melody so sweet and delectable , that she thought she had been in paradise ’ . |
| 27 | GUIL : I thought we 'd been into all that . |
| 28 | He had kept his word — although she knew there had been times when he was sorely tempted to ask her the questions that must have played on his mind . |
| 29 | She knew they 'd been on the verge of drawing at least a little closer to each other , yet she had been the one to ruin the opportunity . |
| 30 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |