Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no sounds of any kind coming from Alina 's bedroom , and had n't been for more than an hour . |
| 2 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had n't been on holiday for two years , ’ said son Liam , of Oundle , Northants . |
| 3 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 4 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had not been on holidays for two years , ’ said Liam . |
| 5 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |
| 6 | The ancient Egyptians had ready access to gold , mined as well as alluvial , in the eastern desert , and had already been in contact with south-west Asia during their Predynastic phase . |
| 7 | The Pontormo , a Mannerist masterpiece painted in 1537 , belonged to the late Chauncey Stillman and had long been on loan to the Frick collection in New York . |
| 8 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 9 | ‘ I was with British Steel before coming here and had never been to a live theatre show before except the pantomime as a kid . |
| 10 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 11 | She had had no serious illnesses in the past and had never been in hospital . |
| 12 | By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied . |
| 13 | He came from a good , supportive family and had never been in trouble before . |
| 14 | Edgar Prais , prosecuting , said the mother was a single parent and had never been in trouble before . |
| 15 | When I was writing an essay on Bernard Shaw , I read in one biography that he had attended a Wesleyan school and had always been at the bottom of his form . |
| 16 | The coeliac patients were originally diagnosed according to the procedure recommended by the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition and had all been on a complete gluten free diet for at least five years and did not present symptoms indicative of active disease . |
| 17 | Psychiatry was new and had only been in practice since 1879 ; neuroses and psychoses were thought to be untreatable . |
| 18 | The categories discussed and exemplified above are among the most problematic in translation but are by no means the only ones that cause difficulty . |