Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [adv prt] under the " in BNC.
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1 | Some were housewives who had been called up under the call up for women of forty-five to fifty . |
2 | With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas . |
3 | A line of the malabars , named after the Indian immigrants who had brought them to the colony , had been drawn up under the trees in the square outside the Continental Palace Hotel when they emerged to go to Cholon with Jacques and Paul Devraux to buy the last of their hunting supplies . |
4 | ( The six-county state of Northern Ireland had been set up under the Government of Ireland Act , 1920 ) . |
5 | A provisional executive committee had been set up under the chairmanship of Franiszek Kaminski . |
6 | The tribunal , which had been set up under the 1981 Algiers Accord , had yet to determine the exact sum of compensation to be paid . |
7 | The late arrival had necessitated her getting out of bed and throwing on a voluminous dressing-robe in order to prepare suitable accommodation — on a night such as this , moreover , when all a body wanted was to curl up under the quilt and hide from the horrors outside . |