Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 2 | DAVID JENKINS has been made first director of Essex Voluntary Association for the Blind . |
| 3 | The police say he 'd been arrested last month and questioned about threats to Mrs Smith , but he 'd been released on police bail pending further enquiries . |
| 4 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 5 | It has to do with Italy 's terrifying national public deficit , estimated at L 34,000 billion , which on 26 May led to the money voted by Parliament at the end of January being frozen until October ; this means , for example , that Venice , Italy 's most fragile urban and artistic organism , which was to have had L450 billion spent on its infrastructure this year , is once again unable , for example , to dredge its canals , essential if the city is to avoid being flooded next time there is a high tide . |
| 6 | You 've got a bit wet out here — terrible downpour couple of days ago — but you still do n't mind being kissed last thing at night . |
| 7 | The long-sought ‘ killer application ’ — aka the next Lotus — may have been born last week : Silicon Valley start-up Arbor Software was at the NT Pavilion at Comdex in Chicago showing off its multi-dimensional spreadsheet . |
| 8 | You must bear in mind that you are dealing only with probabilities and — who knows ? — the examiner may have been changed next time . |
| 9 | I mean if you 'd have been reported last week for it you would think Yeah I 'm damn sure that 's right , you know . |
| 10 | The speech might have been delivered last week . |
| 11 | Mr Gummer 's secret mission to the States emerged when David Curry MP , his number two at the Ministry of Agriculture , deputised at a dairy trade luncheon where he indicated that the bill to reform agricultural marketing which should have been introduced last week is likely to enter Parliament before Christmas . |
| 12 | Daleys Dennis is also in action tomorrow , the first eight heats having been completed last night . |
| 13 | Current chairman Nazmu Virani is on remand having been charged last week with conspiracy in connection with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 14 | Some of those arrested were released last night , but most were believed to be still in custody at RUC interrogation centres in Belfast and Armagh , held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act , the Official Secrets Act and common law . |
| 15 | The Italian Classic , due to have been played next month , has been moved from its original slot and is in danger of not been played at all . |
| 16 | Chester College is pressing to be allowed the title of university college , but its hopes appeared to have been dashed last month by education junior minister Tim Boswell . |
| 17 | THE marriage of tennis star John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal seemed to have been saved last night after a series of tantrums . |
| 18 | Mr Li is believed to have been criticised last year by China 's senior leader , Deng Xiaoping , for his caution on the economy . |
| 19 | I went er , in to check whether these were available last week , just to make sure they were available and , they we , they had been reserved last term but I went to check and , I found so much difficulty finding my way around |
| 20 | How many thing had been done last spring that could not be undone ? |
| 21 | However , the majority of MPs expressed their support , pointing out that he had been elected first time to the shadow cabinet , giving him a mandate and the right to the same loyalty which his predecessors , Donald Dewar and Bruce Millan , had received . |
| 22 | He had been elected last month to the Spanish Parliament and was murdered the night before he was to take his seat . |
| 23 | Earlier she had welcomed Philip Tickner , who had been elected last summer to the vacancy left by Suzannah Hardman . |
| 24 | The upshot was that Hauptmann Alfred Horn — if that was indeed his name — had been transferred next morning from the Tower to a miserable country house near Aldershot called Mytchett Place , where he was being held under extremely heavy guard . |
| 25 | Brian had been drunk last night , certainly , but there had been no dog 's abuse out of him . |
| 26 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 27 | Long ago , the legend said , the security ( or spy-catching ) service and the espionage ( or spy-hiring ) service had been born next door to each other in rooms 5 and 6 of the corridor where Military Intelligence first nested in Whitehall . |
| 28 | As the news of the quarrel between the Old King 's sons spread , those who had been defeated last year took fresh courage , while others like Geoffrey of Lusignan , who had previously been too cautious to join the revolt , now decided that their moment had come . |
| 29 | I dare say you read in the paper she had been attacked last week by some pervert . ’ |
| 30 | At the end of the parade — almost at once — it was announced that ‘ Red Riding Hood ’ and her ‘ wolf ’ had been awarded first prize in the parade , and would the winner , Angela Norcroft , of the 3rd Shortfields Pack kindly come to the prize-giving tent in half an hour 's time for her prize — a bicycle ? |