Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see that the method used was to divert large amounts of money into a fund under the name of another firm , a non-existent firm I imagine . ’ |
| 2 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 3 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 4 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 5 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 6 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 7 | I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter , |
| 8 | Because of his experience , he 'd been taken further into God 's Kingdom , he 'd been given that vision into God 's Kingdom , now that 's more than just been given your eyesight , cos there 's a lot of people will see , who have their eyesight intact , but refuse to have the vision that was necessary to accept Jesus , new kingdom . |
| 9 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 10 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
| 11 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 12 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 13 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 15 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'd been gone several days before Trueman did it . |
| 17 | They 'd been shot 21 times . |
| 18 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 19 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 20 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 21 | In ‘ Downtown Beirut ’ , the boozery next door to the infamous ‘ Village Idiot ’ on 10th St. , ( where two Pogues ' albums continually rotate on the juke box ) , a dastardly plan was hatched to kidnap Strummer from out of the ‘ Seven B ’ bar , where he 'd been drinking all week , and substitute him onstage with Joe Hurley . |
| 22 | She wished she could say she knew she was being difficult and edgy , taking it out on him because she 'd been denied another child . |
| 23 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 24 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 25 | Even from this distance it was clear he 'd been hit several times in the chest and there was also red paint all over his visor . |
| 26 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 27 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 28 | He 'd been told various stories that had supplied small but interesting details about Mandru 's personality and private life . |
| 29 | The police say he 'd been arrested last month and questioned about threats to Mrs Smith , but he 'd been released on police bail pending further enquiries . |
| 30 | One evening , after he 'd been answering more questions from Coombs and Beeding , Quigley came into my room when I was doing my homework . |