Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [be] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 2 | So they 're the ones then that like Linda said are paying two pound fifty |
| 3 | Then attention switched to a Superintendent Miller of pugnacious appearance , who described in clipped and guarded police-speak how twenty-year-old Samantha Abberley had been abducted nine days previously . |
| 4 | ‘ Take us to our hotel , ’ George and Pat asked taxi driver Markus Wermelskirchen outside a bar in Cologne , where Celtic had been thrashed 0 — 2 in the UEFA Cup . |
| 5 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |
| 6 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 7 | It was understood that the UK had been guaranteed three of the quota of 15 tests authorized by Congress over the next three years under new test-ban legislation passed in September [ see p. 39121 ] . |
| 8 | Weir had been piling one office upon another , and had recently added to his collection that of sheriff-substitute in the Nether-ward of Lanarkshire , although , as his friend Andrew Gardner urgently pointed out to the duke , this was a precarious place which was held only during the pleasure of the sheriff-depute of Lanarkshire . |
| 9 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 10 | The paper claimed Johnson had been tested three times in six days in mid-January , and that at least one of the tests was positive for abnormally high testosterone levels . |
| 11 | Observers from the US National Democratic Institute said that there had been " serious problems " , that voter registration was incomplete , that registers had not been open for inspection , and that Biya had been allocated 142 minutes of coverage on the state-owned television service between Oct. 7 and polling day , while the six opposition candidates shared only 12 minutes . |
| 12 | He claimed half-hour warnings to the Samaritans and police in Merseyside had been made two minutes after the bombs were planted . |
| 13 | Everything the Bookman did was recorded one way or another and now the piles of notes , drawings and maps were locked away in a safe . |
| 14 | A post mortem revealed Mrs Bahia had been stabbed 16 times , Mrs Dhandwar 46 times and Avtar had 11 knife wounds . |
| 15 | Previous to the CITES ban on ivory , Japan had been buying 130 tonnes of ivory each year , which suggests a massive local demand for the new substitute . |
| 16 | If B. Hunslett had been born 50 years ago , he would have been an ideal candidate for the Hitler Youth Movement . |
| 17 | All these years then , or for some of them , Rufus had been living three or four miles from him . |
| 18 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 19 | Whereas Greater London had been losing 90 000 people a year at the beginning of the 1970s ( figure 8.3 ) , its population is estimated actually to have grown between 1983 and 1986 , reaching a level of 6.78 million in 1986 . |