Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But the walnut used was native English wood which lacks the dark markings of the Grenoble variety .
2 ‘ At your age , I 'd been married five years .
3 She said : ‘ I 'm very sad because we 'd been married 20 years .
4 We 'd been married ten years , that 's always supposed to be a bad time .
5 it was in here it was sort of like , he 'd been niggly all day , he was tired , he sort of like knocked it over with his foot , and of course it went straight over the dry nappy that was laid out on the floor ready to put under him , I said oh that nappy
6 Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats !
7 Well then th they must have been she said they 'd been concerned all day .
8 The tissues sampled were malignant colorectal tumour tissue ( group a ) , benign colorectal tumour tissue ( group b ) , rectal mucosa from patients with inflammatory bowel disease ( group c ) , and healthy rectal mucosa from those patients undergoing haemorrhoidectomy ( group d ) .
9 He went upstairs to change out of the heavy boots he had ( unnecessarily ) decided were good rugby-watching gear .
10 The hostages to fortune delivered by simplistic uses of institutional racism can be seen in Antony Flew 's New Right critique ( 1984 ) .
11 The problem item appeared right at the bottom of the page , in what McLeish decided was characteristic legal style — you did n't hide it , you just put it last , after the long respectable list of £20,000
12 Rufus , driving back from London with the hashish his dealer swore was genuine Indian charas and a package of best Colombian , picked her off the street — ‘ a piece of property that is found ownerless ’ .
13 The deal was effectively concluded in November 1992 , but had been pending final approval by the European Community , which is financing the project under its PHARE programme .
14 The deal was effectively concluded in November 1992 , but had been pending final approval by the European Community , which is financing the project under its PHARE programme .
15 Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing .
16 Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times .
17 Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust .
18 Secondly there 's some of the nurses who were n't present at the meeting three weeks ago who had been present three years ago .
19 On the other hand the number of university graduates greatly increased : many of them had served in the forces , usually as officers , and several had been temporary civil servants .
20 That winter had been savage , she had been savage that winter .
21 There had been intermittent heavy firing and tank movements around the presidential palace since the previous night , reportedly by dissident officers seeking to prevent Tesfaye Gebre Kidan from ordering a unilateral ceasefire — which he in fact did that evening .
22 All the houses in the village had been small single-storey homes , perhaps only four square metres in area .
23 If this had been ordinary civil litigation I would have agreed .
24 While his predecessors had been ordinary royal humans .
25 There had been strong anti-JNA feeling in Slovenia since the notorious 1988 trial of journalists and a warrant officer accused of illegally disclosing secret plans for a military clampdown against Slovene liberals [ see pp. 36374 ; 36663 ] .
26 Criticism of it was by no means new : a generation earlier , in the second decade of the century , there had been various anti-enclosure measures , an Act in 1515 to prevent the conversion of land from tillage to pasture , and the establishment of commissions of enquiry by Wolsey in 1517 and 1518 to investigate the extent of enclosures .
27 But as the police had been helpful all day a group of four walkers were allowed to deliver the letter .
28 Because she 'd seen the bottle , and it had been good French burgundy
29 See if it had been nice this Saturday we could 've gone and got the wheel back on the caravan but
30 There had been occasional brief meetings to discuss some detail of the conversion .
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