Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [noun] [conj] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two provisos as follows : ( 1 ) execution will not issue against either property or persons without leave of the court where the proceedings have been brought against the firm by one of its members or by another firm having partners in common with the firm against which or against the partners of which execution is sought ; ( 2 ) execution will not issue against a partner if he is out of the jurisdiction at the date when the proceedings were commenced unless he has acknowledged service or was duly served within the jurisdiction as a partner or outside the jurisdiction after leave had been obtained to so serve him . |
| 2 | The lights were put out at 10pm because there were other mothers who 'd had babies and were pretty exhausted . |
| 3 | Leslie Brent , who was young enough to have avoided internment but was nonetheless classified as an enemy alien , joined the forces in 1944 : |
| 4 | Two patients ( patient B and patient H ) were believed to have had proctitis but were subsequently found to have total colitis at colonoscopy with biopsy or histological examination of the colectomy specimen ( one Dukes 's B , one Dukes 's C ) ( Table I ) . |
| 5 | Though he did not know it the San Antonio had turned tail and was even now on her way back to Spain , ‘ bearing a cargo of falsehood against Magellan ’ . |
| 6 | Councillor Enderby and Mrs de Crespigny had made speeches that were as inoffensive as they were predictable . |
| 7 | I also remembered those who had had cancer and were still alive . |
| 8 | Naturally , they are worried that the Queen 's head may disappear from our currency , but if we had economic and monetary union , as we have with Scotland , nothing would stop us providing different notes , even with a different name , provided that they had fixed values that were easily exchangeable . |
| 9 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 10 | Newman had left Otmoor and was now driving back towards London , guided by Paula to Riverboat Island in the Thames . |
| 11 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 12 | The other had continued pain that was eventually successfully managed by a laparoscopic cholecystectomy . |