Example sentences of "[prep] his [n mass] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a time of panic , in which one farmer alleged that a thousand of his sheep had been killed by these parrots ; but it is now known that they rarely kill sheep . |
| 2 | Several of his staff had been injured in clashes with ‘ justly indignant ’ citizens and in Dresden 100 people stormed the local office of the security police on Monday night . |
| 3 | All of his staff had been damaged in some way , but for those who were shy , or clever enough to hide themselves from Lennon 's advance . |
| 4 | Rostov thought about the warning which he had received before leaving Knossos — an anonymous permafax which indicated that one of the members of his staff had been commissioned as an assassin . |
| 5 | Yet Hobbins would not have been able to get hold of the bullets if a broken cabinet in his barracks had been repaired . |