Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] in [art] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
2 | The body of Luis Eurico Teixeira Lisboa , a left-wing intellectual , had been discovered in the same graveyard under a false name in 1979 . |
3 | This residue has no doubt lost the shape of dividends , share warrants or the like but so would the entire income of the fund if it had been lodged in the same way with the Respondent 's bankers . |
4 | If the non-transferable votes had been transferred in the same proportion there would have been insufficient transfers to Donnelly to ensure his election . |
5 | My constituent , Mrs. X , who is still suffering badly , had been treated in a less than fair way by those who conducted the criminal investigation and also by those who decided that there were no grounds for bringing the perpetrator in front of a court martial . |
6 | The faculty denied having discriminated against her and said she had been treated in the same way as all others seeking membership of the bar . |
7 | We discovered a strange fortuity : her mother and my father had been born in the same town of Dumfries and , moreover , we had a marriage connection — her cousin had married my cousin 's cousin ! |
8 | And she explained to Sarah how they and the Thorntons had been married in the same month in 1839 and had all four spent that Christmas together . |
9 | I felt as though I had been reincarnated in the same lifetime . |
10 | Yoshida was a former diplomat of Anglophile inclinations ; he had firmly disapproved of the ascendancy of the military before and during the Pacific War and had been imprisoned in the latter part of the war . |
11 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
12 | As darkness made it impossible to continue , all that remained was to put in a few of the darkest reflections . |