Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I needed were points on the line which exist rather than those which are only theoretical . |
| 2 | This I did in what I thought were circumstances of great secrecy . |
| 3 | The first words that I understood were words like ‘ fire ’ , and ‘ bread ’ . |
| 4 | The big American computer users — such as Boeing and General Motors — which had been pioneers of intra-company networks , were also natural supporters of OSI . |
| 5 | ‘ Apart from a few pieces of glass and steel which had been gifts from my family and had sentimental value , I let her run riot among my other acquisitions . |
| 6 | Within the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which had been centres for anti-war activity in 1916 , the Communist position still received some support . |
| 7 | In other respects , the Declaration settled a number of issues which had been points of contention between the Crown and Parliament , and settled them in Parliament 's favour . |
| 8 | The three who died were members of the Air Training Corps from Bury . |
| 9 | His comments were a bit premature because we find that in the next few months more than half those who died were children between the ages of 8 days and 9 years . |
| 10 | Most of those who left were members of the faction associated with Roh Tae Woo , the largest grouping within the party . |
| 11 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 12 | On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so . |
| 13 | Within three months , the epidemic strain was cultured from 3 other patients ( M30 , M32 , and M34 ) who had been inpatients over the Christmas period , and had had close contact with patients M8 and M10 . |
| 14 | The commercial department of the Central Authority was staffed at the top by three ex-CEB men who had been experts in the complex bulk tariff rules laid down in 1926 to secure equity between independent undertakings : a job which no longer existed . |
| 15 | The four , who had been members of the late President Sukarno 's palace guard , were shot by firing squad in Jakarta , despite widespread pleas for clemency from the international community . |
| 16 | Three candidates who had been members of the CNC , Nadjita Ngororo , Doungous Kimto and Bobekreo Tchimne , were also defeated . |
| 17 | The arrest of three police officers and two military captains who had been members of the elite UESAT unit of the Panamanian Defence Forces commanded by the former dictator Gen. Manuel Noriega , led to suggestions that a serious coup attempt had been intended , and that it had enjoyed wide support from the police . |
| 18 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |
| 19 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 20 | After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations . |
| 21 | What he overheard provided his first insight into the intimate sentiments of mature Fists who had been warriors for over seventy years — as the seven long-service studs on the craggy , crewcut forehead of each star-knight signified . |
| 22 | Asked for her views on the exhibition , one elderly woman who had been friends with many of the Expressionists described it as ‘ both exciting and deeply moving ’ . |
| 23 | Some 580,000 Estonians took part , exclusively people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Estonia and their descendants ; most of Estonia 's political parties fielded candidates , some with Popular Front endorsement . |
| 24 | Ahead of the Latvian Supreme Soviet session , the radical nationalist National Independence Movement organized on April 30-May 1 a rival " Congress of Latvia " , elected in privately organized elections in which only people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Latvia and their descendants were eligible to vote . |
| 25 | The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness . |
| 26 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 27 | The tank we used was 24″ × 13″ × 12″ , a size which retails at £21.68 and the hood sells for £19.56 . |
| 28 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 29 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 30 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |