Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 2 | All the constant changing did was to make the next scene you were doing contradict the one you did yesterday , so all that had to be changed . |
| 3 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 4 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |
| 5 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 6 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 7 | The delay had been to give the second team time to gain position . |
| 8 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 9 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 10 | Two weeks after my course finished and I was back in the ‘ real world ’ on a murder enquiry , I received notification I had been awarded the second scholarship in the force . |
| 11 | By the time she 'd elbowed the door open with two steaming mugs of tea , I had was reading the first thing which had come to hand . |
| 12 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |