Example sentences of "[vb past] be [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flowers used were pieces of conifer and some pink heather , with red and white hawthorn flowers to give added colour , plus a little white alyssum . |
| 2 | the employer and I asked him what documents they produced , what report they produced we have written a letter about it , but I formally call for any report or document from and the second thing he mentioned were letters from about twelve members of parliament that they received |
| 3 | The tank we used was 24″ × 13″ × 12″ , a size which retails at £21.68 and the hood sells for £19.56 . |
| 4 | There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week . |
| 5 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 6 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 7 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 8 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 10 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 11 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 12 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 13 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 14 | There 'd been incidents of violence between gangland type er warfare between inmates . |
| 15 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 16 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 17 | There 'd been months of preparation and delays because of the weather . |
| 18 | There 'd been photographs of these people 's faces in the newspapers , but Stephen had forgotten what the faces looked like . |
| 19 | Because there 'd been arguments about it earlier on in the century , had n't there ? |
| 20 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 21 | In this way Engels asserts the generality of the principles discussed , but also he explains the importance of what he believed were remains of gentile principles in the organization of Greece and Rome . |
| 22 | The ¥7.5m ( $55,000 ) that he received was peanuts alongside the sums that Recruit doled out to many of the ruling party 's bigger names . |
| 23 | On that day he had also invested two new abbots , both sons of important magnates , who as it happened were friends of Anselm . |
| 24 | On Aug. 20 , King Hassan of Morocco called on the UN to delay the referendum by four months ; Morocco was disputing the UN 's " consolidated list " of approximately 74,000 Sahrawis deemed entitled to vote , and was objecting to Manz 's rejection of a Moroccan list of some 120,000 people it claimed were refugees from the territory entitled to vote . |
| 25 | The UVF claimed responsibility for the shootings on Jan. 4 and Jan. 30 of Catholic civilians who it claimed were members of the IRA . |
| 26 | The universe sampled was adults aged 18 or over living in Great Britain ( i.e. excluding Northern Ireland ) at the time of the survey . |
| 27 | Among recent conditions imposed were restrictions on drilling activity at a time when seabirds were moulting or mating . |
| 28 | All these arguments assumed , throughout their long careers , that the settled practices they challenged were orthodoxies of common conviction , not ground rules of convention . |
| 29 | The particular portfolio I saw had twenty-seven etchings many being straight-forward views of Ambleside and elsewhere but included were prints of ‘ Oak trees in Rydal Park ’ , of ‘ Yew tree in Patterdale churchyard ’ and ‘ Birch trees in Coom Gill ’ . |
| 30 | What I needed were points on the line which exist rather than those which are only theoretical . |