Example sentences of "[be] [noun] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a foster mum ca n't be found Sami will have to be hand reared at the stables in Deddington , but the owners he 's much likelier to have a healthy life if he 's reared the natural way . |
| 2 | And she said it was so funny , she said , you 'd get the , the so the poorer people perhaps would use this shop and erm and yet she said , people I knew in the street erm that were Conservatives dealt at the Co-op , where it was I suppose the best buy and they were saving the divi you know , and we thought it was quite funny really . |
| 3 | The leadership of the army was heavily influenced for a generation to come by those who had served in the ranks of the Imperial Japanese army ; five of the first seven chiefs of staff and three of the ministers of defence between 1948 and 1961 were officers trained at the Imperial Defence College in Tokyo . |
| 4 | There were paintings stacked at the side of the room — whether finished or not , she did not know — but the thing that was most touching , the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window , obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest . |
| 5 | The single-copy fallacy operates here strongly , for the only way to study the Convention is through copies in the ‘ real world ’ : that is copies obtained at the time and held since by those who attended or their heirs . |
| 6 | Partly it was fire directed at the father he carried in his heart , whom he still loved and admired despite everything , and who , after all , had been his benefactor and model for so long . |