Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flowers used were pieces of conifer and some pink heather , with red and white hawthorn flowers to give added colour , plus a little white alyssum . |
| 2 | The criterion used was frequency of occurrence : " the more frequent , the more useful . " |
| 3 | The tank we used was 24″ × 13″ × 12″ , a size which retails at £21.68 and the hood sells for £19.56 . |
| 4 | There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week . |
| 5 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 6 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 7 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 8 | There 'd been incidents of violence between gangland type er warfare between inmates . |
| 9 | Previously he 'd been president of Memorex' international group . |
| 10 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |
| 11 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 12 | There 'd been months of preparation and delays because of the weather . |
| 13 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 14 | The agency 's allegations have not been supported by other major conservation groups , although Buff Bohlen , a World Wide Fund for Nature official , said he was concerned over what he believed was money from business trading in illegally poached ivory going to support the secretariat 's work . |
| 15 | Both the Augustinians and Dominicans sought to combine the qualities of actives and contemplatives in their way of life and teaching ; they stressed the need for penance and man 's dependence on God 's grace for that illumination of understanding through faith and love that they believed was knowledge of God . |
| 16 | On that day he had also invested two new abbots , both sons of important magnates , who as it happened were friends of Anselm . |
| 17 | While Baghdad was preoccupied with securing a cease-fire , dissident forces quickly took advantage of a relaxation of internal vigilance : both in the north where Kurdish Peshmerga resumed their earlier insurgency , and in the south where Shiite counterparts rose in revolt against the regime in Basrah and other centres , with what Baghdad claimed was encouragement from Iran . |
| 18 | Hateley instantly exploited the error , rolling the ball back to Ian Ferguson and what followed was hell for defender Sergei Fokine . |
| 19 | This they decided was evidence for neutrons coming from the cell . |
| 20 | And when Trevino added the only top masters title he has won — the Dunhill Masters at Woburn in 1985 — the tears he shed were tears of joy . |
| 21 | Of course , Brian himself was a boss , if one counted being Head of Humanities in a poorly funded and now much-threatened Adult Education Institute as being a boss . |
| 22 | Travel light with Sheila Sang 's selection of slings and changing bags |
| 23 | Thus a picture of a chimpanzee from Edward Tyson 's Orang-Outang of 1699 was used in the standard English version of Cuvier 's Animal Kingdom ( 1827–35 ) , and sections through different woods from Nehemiah Grew 's Anatomy of Plants ( 1682 ) were reproduced in Davy 's Agricultural Chemistry ( 1813 ) . |
| 24 | Erm and then after the , the greeting you went , the actual erm way that you went was statement of purpose and then you did actually start asking for referrals , you started but then you did n't actually follow anything up , you started the script of referrals but you did n't actually follow it up again with anything . |
| 25 | One said : ‘ All we saw was loads of smoke coming from the station and then the emergency vehicles arrived . ’ |
| 26 | What nobody ever did was go to bed with someone because he was virtuous . ’ |
| 27 | Graham Tregidon became WRU president at the annual general meeting in June and one of the first things he did was go into print in the next issue of the union 's newsletter to plead unity . |
| 28 | But when the Earnshaws and the Lintons arrived back from church , the first thing Hindley did was shout at Heathcliff . |
| 29 | The weather had been kind for Boz 's wedding but it was less so for Tom and Dolly . |
| 30 | The Irish Industry Minister , Des O'Malley , stressed that a key factor in winning the project had been availability of computer scientists . |