Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At several sites , protesting miners were reported to have gone down the pits and stayed there following the announcement . |
| 2 | Police were reported to have broken up a pro-independence demonstration in Lhasa , the Tibetan capital , on March 20 . |
| 3 | Police in Colombia were reported to have broken up a march of several thousand Indians , 21 of whom were injured , near the southern town of Popyan . |
| 4 | In July FIS militants were reported to have burned down a divorced woman 's house " to purge her sins ' , resulting in the death of her three-year-old son . |
| 5 | Office supplier Nobo Group enjoyed a 15 point jump to 92p , compliments of James Capel , who were reported to have put out a ‘ buy ’ recommendation . |
| 6 | In the first attack of its type in the 11-year civil war , the FMLN were said to have shot down an A-37 jet aircraft on Nov. 23 with a Sam-7 or Sam-14 ground-to-air missile . |
| 7 | The talks were seen to have opened up the possibility of a June meeting between the UNRG , political parties , church groups , employers and popular movements as a preliminary to possible direct talks between the government , the armed forces and the guerrillas . |
| 8 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |
| 9 | The federal public prosecutor 's office began an investigation into the right-wing Nationalist Front , based in Detmold ( western Germany ) , and the Ku Klux Klan , which was thought to have set up a chapter in North Rhine-Westphalia . |
| 10 | Woodland , a pond and a meadow form the basis of the haven on land given by landlord Helical Bar after the company was asked to help set up a nature park . |
| 11 | He stumbled into the blackness and made his way to the wreckage , where Miller was meant to have found out the location of the Home Guard HQ . |
| 12 | ‘ We are sure the fire was started to try to cover up the murders . |
| 13 | For the Music Room and dining area , a geometric effect in cream and indigo blue was chosen to help break up the space . |