Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been christened Nicandra on the insistence of her father who , in his luckier years , had bred and trained and ridden an outstanding winner of that name . |
| 2 | I thought he might be called Peggy in the House for ever after . |
| 3 | Some of these were given AZT from the start ; the others were given a placebo until they developed symptoms of either AIDS or AIDS-related complex ( ARC ) , when they were then switched to AZT . |
| 4 | They had talked about words during that drive , well , place-names really , with particular reference to the villages that were called Roding after the river : High Roding , Berners Roding , Margaret Roding , and Rufus told him they were pronounced Roothing from the old Danish , which Adam had n't known before . |
| 5 | Markandey Singh was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Union Territory of Delhi and Har Sarup Singh as Lieutenant-Governor of the Union Territory of Pondicherry . |
| 6 | In March the formal concession was signed Eurotunnel for the construction of two 7.6m diameter running tunnels and a 4.8m diameter service tunnel between Britain and France , and the operation of shuttle train service for the carriage of road vehicles . |
| 7 | The ultimate compliment was paid Ferguson before the interval when Buchwald was told by Vogts to man-mark the awkward 21-year-old in case his threat should turn into an act of aggression that brought an equaliser . |