Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cases to which Cooke P. referred are to the like effect . |
| 2 | As these commodities had to be kept perfectly dry at all times the barges used were of the soundest construction and were always well maintained . |
| 3 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 4 | The price proposed was on the open market and Stuttgart was happy to offer it . |
| 5 | I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) . |
| 6 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 7 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 8 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 9 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 10 | All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage . |
| 11 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'd been to the French Riviera — or it could have been the Swiss Alps — or it could have been both — for a good couple of months . ’ |
| 13 | " If I 'd been in the political arena I 'd have shouted . |
| 14 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 15 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 16 | About half the faults of the eventual 955 types collated were in the outer structure . |
| 17 | Er all those that finished was in the finishing union , yeah . |
| 18 | He loved being in the same film as James Mason . |
| 19 | Books dealing mainly with science and the occult lined the walls , bits of engineering projects littered the table , his ultra-feminine dresses hung in one corner and the printing press of the transsexual/transvestite magazine he edited was in the other corner . |
| 20 | because Youth and Carniki I knew are in the same building , which is why we wanted to see you |
| 21 | Instead of increasing grants during the year if prices rose or wage settlements reached were over the original target , the grant was fixed whatever happened . |
| 22 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 23 | She soon decided that the house was the most beautiful place she had ever seen , and though she had little experience of antique furniture or fine art works she immediately recognised that all the things she saw were of the highest quality . |
| 24 | Understandably , in the light of its heroic effort in 1940 and its enormous contribution to the subsequent defeat of the fascist enemy , Britain mistook being on the winning side for having won the war . |
| 25 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 26 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 27 | In the event of the name of a member nominated being on the official panel of available parliamentary candidates of an affiliated organisation the consent in writing of the Executive Committee thereof must also be obtained and sent in with the form of nomination . |
| 28 | I was roasting , ’ said the youngster , who preferred being on the other side of the camera . |
| 29 | The other piece of extra-curricular casting I did was of the young boy playing the grandson — ‘ voice like an angel ’ — Oliver . |
| 30 | When Scarlet attempted to disagree , albeit feebly , Constance cited the scandals in the City and pointed out that the gap between the highest- and the lowest-paid was greater now than it had been since the nineteenth century . |