Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were back at the A squared , I squared is minus one , so I 've got minus three squared , there 's two give me by I Equals minus thirty nine , now because those two complex numbers are the same are the same , so sixteen is E S squared minus three square , the imaginary grids are also the same , so minus thirty equals two , eight B. |
| 2 | ‘ The impression they created was of two young men , very smart , well-spoken , trading high-value stones for far too much money , ’ Mr Curtis told the jury . |
| 3 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 4 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 5 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 6 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 7 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 8 | I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant . |
| 9 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 10 | All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face . |
| 11 | But one , one of the coloured chaps where Tasha works said he was he 'd been to one of these Blind Dates , he was on but we have n't come across him yet have we ? |
| 12 | She 'd been to three lectures . |
| 13 | ‘ But he seemed genuinely interested , particularly when I told him I 'd been round one of the stations on a Come & See tour . |
| 14 | We used we used to have someone who we used to know who 'd been in one of the big houses . |
| 15 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 16 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 17 | The largest flock noted was of 60 birds , but parties of up to 20 are much more usual and many records are of single birds . |
| 18 | ‘ But the child you abducted was of six years of age and although the period of abduction was short and the child came to no harm , this was a crime , particularly now , of the most serious kind . ’ |
| 19 | He was the editor of the Review of Churches and the first tour which he organized was in 1893 when he took a party of 450 people to Rome for Easter . |
| 20 | According to Danas ( 9 September 1986 ) , in 1985 the number of persons subject to this tax was a little over 13,000 ( compared with about 9 million persons in employment or self-employment in that year ) , and the tax raised was about 1 3 billion dinars ( compared with a total gross public revenue in that year of 3,736 billion dinars ) . |
| 21 | The adjournment ordered was until 2 July 1991 . |
| 22 | During the entire movement , none of the aircraft were damaged and the only incident recorded was of one Spitfire performing a forced landing in a farmer 's field while en route to Prestwick . |
| 23 | Although often seen singly , small parties are rather more often seen than with Goosanders ; the largest recorded was of 22 at Manhood End in early February 1956 . |
| 24 | All it took was for one saleslady to tell her she looked lovely and Mrs McMahon was persuaded . |
| 25 | The piece I did is on one side , and on the other is a piece by The Kronos Quartet , called Different Trains . ’ |
| 26 | Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital . |
| 27 | But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 . |
| 28 | On average prices were around 25 per cent lower between 1720 and 1780 than they had been between 1660 and 1680 . |
| 29 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 30 | Holding Management Inc. in the USA where he had been since 1983 . |