Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adj] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest . |
| 2 | The original dosage he administered was five milligrams a day for three weeks , followed by three weeks off the drug . |
| 3 | The amount injected was 10 times the minimum amount of SIV required to infect and cause the Aids-like illness . |
| 4 | The king had been many years a widower . |
| 5 | The turning point for me came after scum had been one fo the chosen matches for about 8 weeks in succession , then one evening it seemed they were nt . |
| 6 | Clearly cancelling the preview had been one option the producers had discussed . |
| 7 | When a younger and less sophisticated Hank had come quietly through the back gate in search of the garage , the couple had been busy planting a lilac tree . |
| 8 | There had been heavy rain the previous week , and the river was high and running quite swiftly . |
| 9 | The Zoo lay under a bitter stormy sky , the bars of the cages seeming even more black against it than they were and the leafless trees more bleak There had been thick snow the previous week , the final throes of winter , and then it had thawed leaving dampness and mud everywhere . |
| 10 | The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) . |
| 11 | What she said was last time the assessor came in |
| 12 | Apprentice boy , my mate he er our friend dead and gone , he 's a good turner that runs er er reels , yet erm that 's all he got was five shillings a week after er no seven year 's apprenticeship . |