Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The circumstances in which this litigation arose are described in the judgment delivered by Vinelott J. on 19 December 1989 as follows : |
| 2 | I am surprised to hear a defence spokesman ask that question , because he knows that the two cases to which I referred are covered by the negative security assurances which made the use of nuclear weapons in such circumstances inconceivable . |
| 3 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 4 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 5 | Added to these , all the bolts and nuts used were forged in the Smithy and threaded on the screwing gang in the machine shop . |
| 6 | The councillors involved were expelled from the ruling Labour Group on the council . |
| 7 | Again , all the applications demonstrated were based on the published case studies . |
| 8 | Yes , now that kingdom is , is in the Lord 's prayer as we mentioned is gone into the air and |
| 9 | The decent community solidarity and welfare socialism that Mr Kinnock embodied was caught on the horns of a terrible contradiction , which Labour in opposition did nothing to resolve , since it did not tackle early enough the low tax/public spending anti-welfare consensus that Thatcherism built . |
| 10 | The data used was based on the 1972 , 1973 and 1974 intakes of all UK Universities and was provided by The Universities Statistical Record . |
| 11 | The recipe she used was taken from the WI Book of Bread and Buns . |
| 12 | He fled and fled , and every door he found was painted with the black plague cross and every face he pleaded with was tinged with the red of plague fever . |
| 13 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 14 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 15 | Ted was a child of the sixties , but he sounded as if he 'd been born in the Blitz . |
| 16 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 17 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 18 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 19 | Lady Laetitia had forgotten all she 'd been taught in the morning and everything had to be rehearsed again . |
| 20 | He 'd been beaten about the head . |
| 21 | He 'd been beaten about the head . |
| 22 | He 'd been beaten around the head . |
| 23 | He 'd been beaten around the head . |
| 24 | He 'd been beaten around the head and his throat had been cut . |
| 25 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 26 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 27 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 28 | She apologised , over the phone , the next day ; she 'd been hiding under the bedclothes , playing her favourite David Bowie cassette at maximum volume on her Sony Walkman , trying to drown the noise of the thunder . |
| 29 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |
| 30 | Nine hours after she 'd been bundled into the room , they unceremoniously dumped Adam in with her . |