Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cultivators became discouraged during the Japanese occupation and lack of export facilities , with the result that much land went out of cultivation . |
| 2 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 3 | He felt like nursery food after the pummelling he 'd had during the meeting and that was the nearest thing to it on the menu . |
| 4 | All the things that you 'd had during the Strike , but things did get left , and er tradesmen were very considerate , there was no chasing for m hard for money and er I know we had an insurance that was n't paid and we used the book to have an imaginary shilling on a horse each day . |
| 5 | Crystal chandeliers glittered brightly above a marble floor ; a quartet of musicians played music — real music , Nicolo thought , incongruously , not the brain-frying stuff they 'd played during the fashion show . |
| 6 | ‘ Before he was taken away , this man gave my father something he 'd stolen during the war . |
| 7 | This morning weary commuters returned to cars they 'd abandoned during the night , after the A40 flooded at over near Gloucester . |
| 8 | Some subjects , I 'd learned during the weeks I followed Oscar Wilde , were better left only as implications . |
| 9 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 10 | In Britain , the idea seemed confirmed during the 1980s . |
| 11 | You could n't have risked people finding out you 'd stolen it from a woman you 'd raped during the Russian campaign . |
| 12 | ‘ And it was just like a miracle because no body , none whatsoever , got hurt during the whole operation . ’ |
| 13 | The church tax became institutionalised during the Weimar Republic and was incorporated into the Basic Law of the new federal republic in 1949 . |
| 14 | Col Peck said about 2,000 Belgian and US troops in Kismayu had intervened during the militia battles , mainly to safeguard lives of aid workers and the port and airport . |
| 15 | Early on , she demanded from each member a list of the people they had consulted during the previous three months . |
| 16 | It was a four-poster bed , like the one in the guest-room — that much she had realised during the night — but the room itself was bigger , with a balcony beyond double french doors with pots of geraniums on it . |
| 17 | The eventual collapse of the adjustable peg system came about as a result of intensification of the pressures that had developed during the 1960s . |
| 18 | Emmie 's interest in the story had evaporated during the telling of it . |
| 19 | The jury had heard during the four-day trial that Daly and Welshman Artro Davies , of Maes Dulyn , Penygroes , had earlier been involved in two scuffles in a local pub . |
| 20 | No firewood could be chopped up until after the landlord had called so the room was clean and tidy , all except for the odd quarry tile Dad had broken during the wood-chopping . |
| 21 | After 18 months in office , the rector , the Rev. Dick Woodger , expressed his thanks for the help he and his wife had received during the move into the new rectory and at the recent birth of their latest daughter . |
| 22 | He had to try and rescue his documentary from the mauling it had received during the morning conference , so it might be wise to keep a clear head . |
| 23 | The reason for excluding the Schutzkorps from repatriation must have been that , although it included a number of Soviet citizens who had joined during the war , a large majority of its members had lived outside Russia since the Civil War and had become passport holders of other countries , mainly Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 25 | She liked the way it stood , distinct and certain , rising out of the level muddy waste of grass and tarmac that generously surrounded it : a bomb had fallen during the war , on a neighbouring chapel , and the site had been levelled out and was now an unofficial part of the school 's playgrounds The whole area was of a bleak airiness , and a cold wind seemed to blow incessantly upon it , turning the knees and knuckles of the girls pink and blue , and snatching away their obligatory berets the moment they emerged from the school porch . |
| 26 | Central to these were the sterling balances which were liabilities which had accrued during the war largely to poorer countries within the Commonwealth . |
| 27 | Maria was checking her public face , glittering tawny colour smudged lightly over her eyelids , darkening at the outer corners , lips defined with vivid colour , when the doorbell rang that evening , and she went to open it , expecting Nicky Kai , who had telephoned during the afternoon to suggest that the three of them share a taxi again tonight . |
| 28 | In order to see how their horses had fared during the winter they devised a gruelling race , the Kiplingcotes Derby . |
| 29 | I WAS once interviewed for a radio programme on BBC and was asked how deaf people had fared during the past 20 years . |
| 30 | The temperature had dropped during the night , and the dead leaves underfoot were bearded with ice ; they broke and crackled as he limped around the car and opened the trunk to get his kit . |