Example sentences of "[num] [Wh pn] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 2 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
| 3 | The Austrian government on Sept. 16 rejected a request for political asylum from Markus Wolf , the former head of East German intelligence from 1958 to 1987 who had been in the Soviet Union for the past year and who was wanted in Germany on charges of espionage . |
| 4 | Two others ( of the sixteen ) were also depressed , so out of the nine who had been in care and were currently depressed , seven had also had premarital pregnancies . |
| 5 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 6 | The two who escaped are in hospital . |
| 7 | Ten of the twenty four who died were in a block of three storey flats ; children were among them , their bodies found in a nearby field . |