Example sentences of "family [vb past] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 2 | Madeira wine was for many years the favourite wine of the Russian Court , and one of the Krohn family had been food-taster to the Tsar . |
| 3 | Her whole family had been involved with the tradition for generations : she had just ridden with her daughter in the procession in a decorated pony and trap ; her son-in-law was the new polemaster ; and her grandson was dancing round the maypole . |
| 4 | She was born about AD 460 , daughter and granddaughter of Roman and Byzantine emperors , whose family had been prominent in Roman politics for over 700 years . |
| 5 | The family had been relieved of the embarrassment of a huge , unmanageable Georgian house by a convenient fire in the twenties . |
| 6 | Their advisers , Kleinwort Benson , a City bank , claimed that the Al Fayed family had been wealthy for generations . |
| 7 | SPURS chairman Alan Sugar said yesterday that his family had been terrified by the hate campaign surrounding his legal battle with Terry Venables . |