Example sentences of "[vb past] be [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The criterion used was frequency of occurrence : " the more frequent , the more useful . " |
| 2 | They 'd been part of an 8-man patrol , call sign Bravo-2-0 , whose task was to seek and destroy the mobile Scud launchers with which Saddam Hussein was attacking Israel . |
| 3 | McLaren , the 22-year-old Hearts defender , told me recently that when he made his World Cup debut against Italy ( the game where he was asked to mark Roberto Baggio ) , the fact that he 'd been part of the squad at the European Championship finals , as well as playing a couple of games on the tour of North America last year , were of immeasurable assistance in making the step up . |
| 4 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 5 | ‘ Dare Say certainly deserved this change of luck as he 'd been second in three of his four races so far this term . ’ |
| 6 | Previously he 'd been president of Memorex' international group . |
| 7 | Well Of course came the War and and er like for about twelve years like before the War I 'd been president of the Hosiery Finishers Association . |
| 8 | that 's what I thought , I was n't quite sure , I just wanted I 'd been sort of going through various things , and I want I 'd wanted to make absolutely sure |
| 9 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |
| 10 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 11 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 12 | It took something away from everyone , whether they 'd been IP in the past or not . |
| 13 | Michael Michael , to assist the panel , after we received 's paper on on on the erm coal workings in Selby we have act we faxed that over to British Coal for their comments . |
| 14 | The agency 's allegations have not been supported by other major conservation groups , although Buff Bohlen , a World Wide Fund for Nature official , said he was concerned over what he believed was money from business trading in illegally poached ivory going to support the secretariat 's work . |
| 15 | Both the Augustinians and Dominicans sought to combine the qualities of actives and contemplatives in their way of life and teaching ; they stressed the need for penance and man 's dependence on God 's grace for that illumination of understanding through faith and love that they believed was knowledge of God . |
| 16 | The third aspect the third aspect that er noticed was movement of the feet whilst in this sort of a situation . |
| 17 | This is because the anthropology which they used and reinterpreted was part of a much wider work which went beyond and across any disciplinary boundaries . |
| 18 | While Baghdad was preoccupied with securing a cease-fire , dissident forces quickly took advantage of a relaxation of internal vigilance : both in the north where Kurdish Peshmerga resumed their earlier insurgency , and in the south where Shiite counterparts rose in revolt against the regime in Basrah and other centres , with what Baghdad claimed was encouragement from Iran . |
| 19 | The touching love letters they exchanged are testimony to that growing bond of affection . |
| 20 | There we discovered the £7.50 hamburger meal , flower-selling girls with Chanel handbags and wealthy exhibitionists who apparently enjoyed being part of a human zoo , preening themselves on their extravagant yachts while the hoi-polloi stared up from the quayside . |
| 21 | He enjoyed being part of a friendly , thriving company , but says the atmosphere changed when Mr Maxwell took over . |
| 22 | Hateley instantly exploited the error , rolling the ball back to Ian Ferguson and what followed was hell for defender Sergei Fokine . |
| 23 | This they decided was evidence for neutrons coming from the cell . |
| 24 | Of course , Brian himself was a boss , if one counted being Head of Humanities in a poorly funded and now much-threatened Adult Education Institute as being a boss . |
| 25 | I 'm not a card-carrying clown so I was n't admitted to the AGM , but a usually reliable source informs me that the main issues debated were amalgamation with the US-based World Clowns ' Federation — inevitable , I suppose , in the era of superunions — and charitable status . |
| 26 | When Sir Dudley Digges and Sir John Eliot [ qq.v. ] were arrested for accusing Buckingham of murdering King James , the mildness of Strode 's reaction to this breach of privilege terminated his parliamentary career . |
| 27 | Travel light with Sheila Sang 's selection of slings and changing bags |
| 28 | Thus a picture of a chimpanzee from Edward Tyson 's Orang-Outang of 1699 was used in the standard English version of Cuvier 's Animal Kingdom ( 1827–35 ) , and sections through different woods from Nehemiah Grew 's Anatomy of Plants ( 1682 ) were reproduced in Davy 's Agricultural Chemistry ( 1813 ) . |
| 29 | Then I filled up the brandy bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle . |
| 30 | When Frobisher sailed to the north of America in 1576 , inspired by hopes of finding a north-west passage to India or China in the way that hopes of finding a north-east passage had led to the voyage that opened up the Muscovy trade , he and his backers were excited to find what they thought was gold on the route . |