Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tales were exchanged of the Lovelocks ' exploits . |
| 2 | One dank afternoon I was summoned to the Gorengs ' lounge . |
| 3 | He was known at the Wayfarers ' Refuge in Cosway Street in St Marylebone , an excellent place , where he usually got a midday meal and medical attention for minor ailments when he needed it . |
| 4 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 5 | Beginning in 1923 , when Vita and her husband ( Sir ) Harold Nicolson [ q.v. ] came to stay at the Villa Medici , the affair lasted into 1925 and was followed by the Scotts ' divorce in 1927 . |
| 6 | Pike 's face was now pressed firmly into what was left of the Quigleys ' wallpaper . |
| 7 | Following the publication by the National Board of ‘ Do Not Be Afraid , ’ in 1991 , a Joint Dialogue Group was established by the Bishops ' Conference and the NBCW . |