Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Khmara had been arrested inside the Supreme Soviet on Nov. 17 , 1990 , as a result of an incident during the October Revolution holiday on Nov. 7 when he and his co-defendants had been involved in a scuffle with an undercover KGB ( State Security ) officer in a pedestrian subway in Kiev . |
| 2 | Mr Milmo said that it was ‘ utterly and completely false ’ to suggest that Mr Clay had been influenced by the prospect of some plum job when he retired . |
| 3 | Ari had been struck by the smells of Arcady more than anything . |
| 4 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 5 | Perhaps even some of his own words about Ceauşescu had been translated into the languages spoken in Romania for the edification of Ceauşescu 's subjects . |
| 6 | Donna had been rummaging beneath the bed upstairs , where she 'd pulled out both of the metal cases . |
| 7 | Piers Gaveston had been exiled from the household of Edward when he was Prince of Wales , but was quickly recalled after the prince 's accession in 1307 . |
| 8 | Unlike Khruschev , Gorbachev had been raised after the 1917 revolution , was less concerned with ideological radicalism and more interested in the protection and strengthening of the USSR than in an active Third World policy . |
| 9 | Ian Paisley had been born into the rural pious Orange tradition of politicized Protestantism in County Armagh . |
| 10 | Pub landlord Nigel Moxham said : ‘ We only realised after the race that Gaby had been saved by the boat we paid for . ’ |
| 11 | WALES 'S World Cup qualifying tie against The Netherlands tomorrow , deprived of three main attractions by the suspension of Ian Rush and Mark Hughes and injury to Ruud Gullit , recovered some of its box-office potential yesterday with the news that Marco van Basten had been added to the Dutch squad . |
| 12 | The rubies rumoured to have belonged once to Marie-Antoinette had been dispatched to the diva , who always wore scarlet . |
| 13 | The agreements with the United States had been bought at the cost of disproportionate cuts in Soviet weaponry and were clearly dictated by the need to reduce military spending , a much heavier relative burden for the USSR than for the United States . |
| 14 | The United States had been introduced to the combined system by Laurent Clerc , a deaf and dumb immigrant and former pupil of the Abbe de l'Epee . |
| 15 | Hector had been huddled by the door , and he had snuffed at once at her feet , whimpering . |
| 16 | On the day Lucy had been presented with the key of the Toyota , Margaret Telford had said , ‘ Now promise me you 'll never pick up hitch-hikers or strangers . |
| 17 | ( Ver had been charged with the murder in 1984 but acquitted , a verdict which was overturned in 1986 after Corazon Aquino had come to power — see pp. 34297-98 ; 34489 ; 34872 . ) |
| 18 | The fatal accident inquiry at Ayr had been told by the lawyer for the golf club that the most important way to stop accidental drownings is by education . |
| 19 | Finally , Horse Watch heard that Millie had been spotted in the New Forest . |
| 20 | Apparently , a day or so before my arrival , the children of Navan had been entertained at the centre by a man dressed-up as Mickey Mouse . |
| 21 | IBM noted that Zschau had been tapped for the post before Louis Gerstner came aboard as its new chairman , and said that there were no plans to offer AdStar shares to the public . |
| 22 | Angy had been stabbed in the throat and that 's exactly what he 'd done to her portrait … he was afraid that would all come out and everyone would think he 'd done it . ’ |
| 23 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |
| 24 | The people did so , and the Archbishop of Canterbury then addressed the assembly on the theme ‘ the voice of the people is the voice of God ’ , saying that by the unanimous consent of all the magnates Edward had been deprived of the government of his kingdom because of his inadequacy and his offences against Church and kingdom . |
| 25 | The 59-member BLDC had been appointed by the NPC in June 1985 [ see p. 33660 ] and had published a first draft of the Basic Law in May 1988 and a second draft in February 1989 [ see p. 36763 ] . |
| 26 | But she said Lilian had been working at the old people 's home just down the road . |
| 27 | Mahoney had been walking down the street on his way to the Bonanza Club when he was shot down . |
| 28 | The Habsburgs had been stung by the loss of Silesia into a series of far-reaching administrative reforms , while Russia had once more displayed her military strength and had consolidated her dominant position in Poland . |
| 29 | The cause was either the butane gas heater or the electric lead lamp Mr Whitley had been using under the car , or both , setting fire to petrol vapours . |
| 30 | Aoun had been living in the French embassy in Beirut since Syrian and Lebanese forces toppled his " government " in October 1990 [ see p. 37792 ] . |