Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] by [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next year they were followed by the first Clayton Volunteers ( named after the Reverend ( Tubby Clayton , founder of TocH ) . |
| 2 | The three of them ran downstairs to the debtor 's room where they were joined by a fourth helper , Mrs Bangham , charwoman and messenger who volunteered her services as flycatcher and general attendant , and fanned the patient with a cabbage leaf throughout her delivery . |
| 3 | All three hung in the air , moving and looping , until they were joined by a fourth : white , green , red , blue . |
| 4 | They were encouraged by the first major decentralization of employment . |
| 5 | The first category , compare and contrast positive and negatives , involves a comparison between positive and negative adjectives describing the person used together to form the final opinion ; for example , ‘ [ I ] weighed all good points against all bad points ’ or ‘ as far as I was able to tell , every person was described by three positive/favourable adjectives and three negative/unfavourable ones … just as an impression was formed it was negated by the 5th or 6th words , giving it a cancelling out effect . |
| 6 | It was followed by the first tractors , the little grey Fergusons . |
| 7 | Tala-Tala , he explained , five miles up the road , had the first church on Koraloona because it was built by the first missionaries to arrive on the island . |
| 8 | Militant Hindus have been trying to destroy the mosque at Ayodhya for years because they believe it was built by the 16th Century Moslem invaders . |
| 9 | It was bought by the first buyers for the purpose of reselling in smaller quantities to be compounded into food for cattle and poultry and was resold by them for compounding into pig and poultry food . |
| 10 | It brought to an end the era of amphibians and it was introduced by the next great group to appear , the reptiles . |
| 11 | Having only just made peace with his companion of fifteen years , Anjelica Huston , he was struck by the first kiss-and-tell in his entire life , and he was angry . |
| 12 | He liked the forked lightning better than the zig-zag kind and now he was gratified by a second many-branched display that seemed to spring and grow from the river itself , blossoming in the sky above the Kingsbrook meadows . |