Example sentences of "[n mass] [Wh pn] [vb past] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer told us of the people who had been to the Chapel to see what he was doing — and told us that several generals had been there . |
| 2 | Banbury in the 1960s was still full of professional and trades people who had been at the school before or immediately after the Second World War . |
| 3 | Jane Pargeter was not particularly popular on the programme either , but several people who had been at the party supported her story that she had not left the party at all until Nicola 's body had been found . |
| 4 | There were ladies in expensive dresses , and people who had been on the train on ‘ red-petticoat day ’ . |
| 5 | There , at the bar , he had been introduced to one of the heads of M.I.9 who , when he heard that Eric wanted to get back to Italy and could speak more Italian than most people who had been on the run , immediately offered to make him a member of the Allied Screening Commission . |
| 6 | He was finding it difficult to extract even the names of the people who had been on the dahabeeyah . |
| 7 | He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed . |
| 8 | That this was significantly new is demonstrated by the bitter resistance to it from people who had been near the heart of the Church , yet it was finally approved overwhelmingly and constitutes the most precise dogmatic statement within this ‘ dogmatic constitution ’ . |
| 9 | I read the reports of interviews the police had had with people who had been near the river at Chiswick , Barnes , and Hammersmith , on the night of June 5 — nobody had seen a drunk being assisted from a car , or a heavy bundle being carried towards a boat . |
| 10 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 11 | Well I think it was just because of the the people who put the pressure on at that time , perhaps people who 'd been in the tenants association before , did n't see that as a priority . |
| 12 | The staff who had been in the kitchen when Zambia had landed in the packing cases had gone off duty soon afterwards . |