Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [noun prp] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ran back and found Alice had been struck dead by lighting . |
| 2 | We know that some of the men who devised and administered Auschwitz had been trained to read Shakespeare and Goethe , and continued to do so . |
| 3 | However , the general principle of liability for the acts of others to which my hon. and learned Friend referred is not at all out of line with the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 4 | Vincent Piedboeuf , computer systems project leader for the international organisation , revealed that vital research into the disease had been halted when the computer became overloaded and crashed and said EORTC had been saddled with a gigantic phone bill . |
| 5 | She had no use for it but suspected Rosie had been alarmed . |