Example sentences of "[vb past] be a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 2 | The closet to Ireland we came were a few students in college , and even they seemed to have interest in politics . " |
| 3 | All I glimpsed were a few strands of grey hair and a white , neatly barbered beard . ’ |
| 4 | Churchill had been a hundred miles from London , weekending in the country . |
| 5 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 6 | Parish clerk Jennie Flintoff said there had been a few accidents at the entrance to the village . |
| 7 | For , he was sure , no mistake , there had been a few flings in her life . |
| 8 | When a run was done using a lexicon without letter names , the number of paths produced was a few orders of magnitude less than when these words were included.2 Similarly function words could be treated differently from content words . |