Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commonest species we found were Priapella intermedia and Astynax mexicana . |
| 2 | The third section to which he referred was section 441(2) which provides : |
| 3 | Gran had always been tetchy and impatient with Ben Hesketh , she remembered ; and he 'd always called her Ma , as if he 'd been Jake 's brother . |
| 4 | She was beginning to see why he 'd been Jake 's friend . |
| 5 | And another boys name was Thomas and he could n't write that cos all last year he 'd been Tom an he 'd forgotten how to write his surname they 're not dim children both of them |
| 6 | What had she really known about the young man who 'd been Eddie 's friend ? |
| 7 | Stroud , who 'd been Stokle 's common law wife , planned to claim life insurance . |
| 8 | I recognised Lingary 's name from the times Andy had talked about the Falklands ; he 'd been Andy 's CO , the one Andy blamed for the deaths of some of his men . |
| 9 | Nearly all the other prints we lifted are Benyon 's , naturally . |
| 10 | But instead of getting on with the revolution , which Lowe believed was Wilson 's historic duty , Harold had immediately ‘ sold out ’ to the capitalists by adopting right-wing policies approved by NATO and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 11 | What she recognised was Mandy 's handwriting — big and round . |
| 12 | The first book I ever studied was Prout 's Strict Counterpoint , which bestows on polyphony an aura of mysterious excellence . |
| 13 | Behind the glass as it filled was Luke 's magnified smile . |
| 14 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 15 | But the voice that replied was Godfrey 's . |
| 16 | Her rage was further fuelled by the fact that all she contacted was Roirbak 's answering machine . |
| 17 | The noise must have attracted the attention of the people in the pub because the next thing I heard was Dad 's voice booming above the bedlam . |
| 18 | There was a gap while Cobalt was talking and all they heard was Rain 's murmur of interest . |
| 19 | Among the new Secretaries ( Ministers ) named were Libya 's first woman Cabinet member , Fatimah Abd al-Hafiz Mukhtar ( Secretary for Education ) , and Amin Halimi Uthman Kamil , an Egyptian citizen appointed to the newly created Light Industries portfolio . |
| 20 | I was just so frustrated by what I thought was Frank 's intransigence . |
| 21 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 22 | He eventually came to a kind of theatre , which he also knew was Mandru 's morning room , expanded to vast proportion . |
| 23 | The problem that soon emerged was Beccaria 's insistence on the strict proportionality between offences and punishments , regardless of the circumstances of the offence or characteristics of the offender . |
| 24 | In November 1990 the DPP had formed a Taiwan Sovereignty Independent Movement Committee to advocate what the party asserted was Taiwan 's " independent sovereignty " which excluded mainland China . |
| 25 | The only country house poem which she certainly read is Pope 's ‘ Epistle to Burlington ’ . |
| 26 | There are still old Newfoundlanders around who chopped down their maple trees and ripped ’ O Canada ’ from their song-books on March 31 1949 , when the proud island which had been England 's oldest colony joined the Canadian confederation . |
| 27 | One of Al Bowlly 's greatest numbers , ’ he added , mentioning the name of the man who had been England 's most popular crooner until his death . |
| 28 | ‘ It had been Carole 's dream to come and work with us , but sadly that dream was smashed . ’ |
| 29 | Déby had been Habré 's military commander and the architect of victories over Libyan forces in the 1986-87 war [ see pp. 34914-17 ; 35876-79 ; 36256 ] . |
| 30 | The memorable part of the meeting had been Lowell 's eagerness to be with her . |