Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 3 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 4 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 5 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 6 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 7 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 8 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 9 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 10 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 11 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 12 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 13 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 14 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 15 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 16 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 17 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 18 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 19 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 20 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 21 | Ninety ( 72% ) patients were over 70 , although only 14% of the population studied were above this age . |
| 22 | His theology was , however , deeply unorthodox and , as we saw in Chapter I , he paid the highest price for wishing to supplant contemporary Roman Catholicism with an alternative religion , which he believed was of older pedigree . |
| 23 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 24 | Although the history of Scotmid is very much of local interest , the carriages they collected are of national importance . |
| 25 | Stalin was less interested in Korea and the type of state that developed was of idiosyncratic character , in some respects resembling the Soviet Union and in others the kind of communist party devised by Mao Tse-tung during the Yenan era . |
| 26 | Sending your customers broke is of little help to anyone . |
| 27 | During the entire movement , none of the aircraft were damaged and the only incident recorded was of one Spitfire performing a forced landing in a farmer 's field while en route to Prestwick . |
| 28 | He thought compatibility and interests which could be shared and understood were of prime importance . |
| 29 | The dream that the resort offered was of economic independence by being in business on one 's own . |
| 30 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |