Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blake found being a passenger in the mechanical ‘ land-rovers ’ , with their noise and billowing fumes , frightening . |
| 2 | In The man whom we visited is a cousin of mine the clause whom we visited is adjectival , qualifying the man . |
| 3 | I thought I was getting David and maybe a few personal possessions , but when he actually turned up , he was with a friend in a very large van , and this rather ethereal , thin , slightly spotty figure that was David in those days , dressed in extremely scruffy clothes , emerged from this van carrying a twelve string guitar , which it transpired was a present from Pete Townshend . |
| 4 | Trundling along the lane they entered was a line of galvanized garbage trucks , empty and snaking on their rounds to collect the day 's debris . |
| 5 | Twelve teachers and an Indian doctor and his wife were allowed back , in what Reuters news agency reported was a move by Iran to resolve a major dispute with Arab states . |
| 6 | It took months — and the best financial brains in New York — to unravel his dealings and what they found was a web of debt — and worse . |
| 7 | There were no signposts and maps were not to be trusted , but the greatest hazard he encountered was a swarm of locusts which had taken possession of five miles of the road . |
| 8 | There 'd been a master at Ravenswood , a man called Funny Stiles who 'd been given the sack because he 'd made boys presents of whistles and fountain-pens . |
| 9 | He moved incredibly slowly , zombie-ish , as if he 'd been a patient in there since before the flood and they 'd finally decided to let him out for some fresh air . |
| 10 | Wiltshire Coroner John Elgar recorded a verdict of death by natural causes , saying there was no reason to suggest there 'd been a lack of care or self-neglect . |
| 11 | There 'd been a smell of roses , and of coffee . |
| 12 | ‘ Educationally and professionally , I 'd been a bit of a prodigy — always the youngest in my league . |
| 13 | After that , there 'd been a bit of a void between floundering furiously in the deep waters of the Mediterranean — her denims weighing her down and her bikini-top , evidently not refastened securely enough , doing a treacherous disappearing act — and being hauled into strong male arms , dragged aboard a strange boat , then deposited on a plush banquette seat , feeling decidedly under-dressed for the occasion … |
| 14 | He 'd been a dinosaur in a world of pettiness . |
| 15 | She told me she was sorry we were going , and we 'd been a credit to the school . |
| 16 | At least , she thought she was — until the day before her flight , when a DSD representative phoned and told her there 'd been a change of plan . |
| 17 | Oh yes I enjoyed it very much but erm we had American visitors around and we had one a Captain and I 'm afraid we all fell for him cos he seemed such a handsome man and he 'd been a hero in the war , and he was engaged to , then to the then president of America 's daughter , so they informed us but erm I do n't know whether it was the truth , that 's what they , they said but of course some of the , some of the things had to be cast , the bodies had to be cast and they were , they were I do n't know whether you 'd have heard of the Orritor |
| 18 | It was not necessary for him to know that she 'd been a widow for years . |
| 19 | I was so proud of you — as proud as though you 'd been a child of mine trying to walk . |
| 20 | If there 'd been a trail of destruction down the road , then fair enough , but |
| 21 | Liese 's father owned a chain of garages : he 'd been a prisoner of war , had married an English girl . |
| 22 | There 'd been a decade of de-skilling said Mr Kinnock , but Labour would set in motion a national training strategy . |
| 23 | There 'd been a repeat of the sensational reports about Waite — he 'd died of a heart attack in an Iranian prison camp and his body returned to Beirut , or the island of Cyprus was on alert for his imminent release — and a three-day series on all the hostages in the Independent , but there was still no questioning of government policy nor a proper analysis of what was really happening . |
| 24 | There 'd been a photograph of it in the paper , across someone 's hedge , its wings in a tree . |
| 25 | There 'd been a fault in her original logic which he 'd seized upon , but she was already beginning to see the fallacy . |
| 26 | There 'd been a thing about it in the paper . |
| 27 | But in times gone by , there 'd been a feast at ban pasāi ; the women had brought rice and huge copper pans to the forest . |
| 28 | It was the second time there 'd been a breakout at the court in the space of a week . |
| 29 | In 1984 he had nothing left to prove — he was successful , shooting stock shots for The Image Bank , which he 'd been a director of for six years . |
| 30 | We also gave other reasons at the time , erm principally the road , because the access fronting onto the A forty four there by the proposed site , there 'd been a number of accidents and during the consultation period there were actually two people killed bang opposite the proposed entrance to that site at Swingswang . |