Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [verb] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pilotari or players took to wearing more elaborate gloves or other prosthetic aids in propelling the ball , and what had once been a lo wish wall at the end of the playing area was built higher and higher to contain the far greater velocities , while the courts themselves became longer , until some of them are said to have reached 100 metres . |
| 2 | By 1774 she had 58 ships of the line : she is said to have possessed 72 in 1789 . |
| 3 | They were known to have had three sons and three daughters . |
| 4 | He is alleged to have assaulted five named men at Kenway Tyres , Bridge of Don , by injecting them with heroin . |
| 5 | He 's alleged to have smuggled three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain , concealed in a lorry load of pot plants . |
| 6 | He was reported to have presented five demands ; if Libya acceded to these demands the imposition of sanctions would be forestalled . |
| 7 | After the official count , he was shown to have won 25 per cent of the vote , and later released though he was not allowed , at least temporarily , to take up his seat in Parliament . |
| 8 | He was arrested trying to use one of the cards in a Pizza Hut restaurant in London 's Piccadilly . |
| 9 | He was arrested trying to use one of the cards in a Pizza Hut restaurant in London 's Piccadilly . |