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 . |