Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upper Halling has its own team and in its early days this team played in the field opposite the Robin Hood , and I have been told of near carnivals on Sunday afternoons . |
| 2 | The judge added : ‘ You have been convicted of numerous offences in the past . |
| 3 | The growth of money management education committees and associations within local education authorities is evidence of this ; we have been told of encouraging credit education initiatives in the North West , North East , South Wales and Scotland and no doubt there are other similar examples elsewhere . |
| 4 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 5 | At Wharram Percy they had been rebuilt of perishable materials — wood , wattle , turf — in almost every generation , only later having substantial foundations . |
| 6 | That that that is a just criticism and it has been made of immunological treatment . |
| 7 | Beta is a fine orange star of spectral type M , beautiful in binoculars ; it has been suspected of slight variability . |
| 8 | Did you know he 'd been convicted of drunken driving ? |
| 9 | The first was some eight years ago when he 'd been accused of shoddy workmanship on a car which had been involved in a crash two days after he 'd MOTed it . |
| 10 | Oliffe 's job , according to his defence , was to fatten up animals over the winter , and this was the first time he 'd been accused of ill-treating animals . |
| 11 | Normally used as a storeroom-cum-gallery , it had been cleared of extraneous clutter . |