Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a further blow for Adolph Zukor ; both Arbuckle and Taylor had been under contract to him . |
| 2 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |
| 3 | She and Sarah had been to the cinema the previous night and when the air raid warning sounded some people had left but most stayed . |
| 4 | The laboratory of Davy and Faraday had been like a large kitchen of the early nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Areas around Ramallah and el-Bireh had been under curfew since the killing of a settler at the beginning of the intifada [ see pp. 35856-61 ] . |
| 6 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |
| 7 | A mole working inside Cranborne School had supplied them with a mailing-list of all Muslim parents whose children had been rejected by ‘ This is a Christian Country ’ Gyles , the Junior School headmaster , and Robert and Maisie had been through the telephone directory , picking out anyone with a Muslim-sounding name . |
| 8 | No one could tell she and Nevil had been in it . |
| 9 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 10 | She supposed most normal people in a situation like the one she and Alan had been in all day , would have ended up in bed together , here in this comfortable bed at Rose Cottage . |
| 11 | Once Dolly and Gertrude had been in the back row of the chorus at the Palladium , and Gertrude had even had a solo spot with a comic song … he had seen a photo of her somewhere as Burlington Bertie … |
| 12 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 13 | Anyway , Benguiat made up to him and gave him a big kiss and then the next day things got bad again because Parkinson was going to in room number two above this floor to sort out his slides and Benguiat had been in there and evidently he had just decided to tuck his shirt in and loosen his trousers and while he was tucking his shirt in Parkinson came in and says aha , caught you with your pants down , and Benguiat storms out of the room . |
| 14 | I remember one British Open at Turnberry , we were playing the 16th and Tom had been in a burn . |
| 15 | She could wake up and find that it was still the night of their parents ' wedding , that only that afternoon she and Stephen had been on the train . |
| 16 | She and Havvie had been to a flower show . |
| 17 | Arthur and Fred had been to school together . |
| 18 | He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back . |
| 19 | One of which was the property in Frinton which was owned jointly by Mr and his step mother who was an elderly lady who was then residing in that er property and er around that time on the first of October Mr er telephoned Mr and er told him about that but at that time , was not anticipating that there would be an difficulties about the security on Frinton for these he had always , added his case , made it perfectly clear to the man at the National Westminster Bank with whom he was dealing , Mr that that property was not a property which er could er be offered as security because of the joint ownership and er while in conversation with the bank he understood that this letter had been sent and Mrs had been on holiday and that it was simply oversight on the part of the bank at this stage and that all would well after Mrs returned , which was expected in two weeks time . |
| 20 | He and Adam had been at the same school , though he was a bit older . |
| 21 | The Divas manager Alan Cutler says Dee and Rose had been on the verge of a wonderful career . |
| 22 | Carey and Zeno had been on the same side once . |
| 23 | The three wanted men were close friends from Armagh , and Duffy and Gorman had been in Derby with Magee for several weeks before Monday 's shooting . |
| 24 | Recently Princess Jeeta and Jamila had been in funereal moods , not for a second allowing Anwar to enjoy the pleasure of his tyranny . |
| 25 | Tehran , Baghdad — Andropulos again playing both sides of the fence , Iran and Iraq had been at war for six years now — Tripoli , Damascus , Beirut , Athens , Rome , East Berlin , New York and London . |
| 26 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 27 | My top-floor neighbours were a couple called Christina and Barry Jackson , and Barry had been to school with David and George Underwood in Bromley , and being a neighbour , I was quite friendly with these two . |
| 28 | Dr. Crocker and Wexford had been at school together . |
| 29 | That is to say , Tolkien 's stories could be said to be an embodiment of that Northernness with which Lewis and Greeves had been in love since early adolescence . |
| 30 | And Arianna had been in love with him , or at least , she 'd thought she was , until he 'd begun taking over her life . |