Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [adv] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 2 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 3 | I appreciated the very great honour of being asked — Coronation opera and all that — but I knew that my voice had been punished mercilessly during the war and I had , indeed , decided to retire from the opera stage . |
| 4 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 5 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 6 | The school is a complex of large , red-bricked barrack blocks , which had been taken over during the war ( happily unoccupied ) by the American Army . |
| 7 | Some streets which had been closed off during the intifada would be gradually re-opened . |
| 8 | However , when the regulations came to be made , the government maintained that the policy which had been set out during the passage of the Bill through the House was unworkable . |
| 9 | We went on to Shwebo and Katha , and returned to Sagaing , where we boarded an old Irrawaddy steamer which had been sunk twice during the war and recovered on each occasion . |