Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What passed on were the gold frame and certain historic jewels from earlier dynasties . |
| 2 | And er after er my grandfather made that bike , after he started business on his own , he had , well the next thing came in was the penny farthing bicycle . |
| 3 | What a man had done before he joined up was the past , and the past was unconnected with the Legion , and therefore irrelevant . |
| 4 | The way it turned out was the way young Niccolò wanted it . |
| 5 | Already penned in are the Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's print manager and NetLabs Inc 's NetLabs/Manager . |
| 6 | One reason that he ruled out was the argument , derived from earlier cases , that fights in public should be prohibited because they tend to create disorder . |
| 7 | But however that may be , we take it as axiomatic that unless it can be established to the contrary , the best authorities as to what went on are the actors themselves . |
| 8 | Typical of what went on was the booking of Weir . |
| 9 | And lay off were the tunnel was going to go and the road up to the hill and lay off the power station and |
| 10 | The troublesome lamps flank the couch , where constituents sit and watch their congressman appear and disappear ; and the only thing that saved Orton from rushing to the floor to cast phantom votes when his clock buzzer went off was the fall-back alarm system , a personal bleeper . |
| 11 | Because one reason in Nottingham why they went back was the fact Blidworth Pit was starting to turn coal . |
| 12 | He suggested that one reason his parents had talked so much about it was that ‘ they really were like oil and water , and the only thing they really agreed about was the ballet . |
| 13 | The other kind of sex I learned about was the meaning of the four-letter words the boys chalked up on the playground wall , though the explanations were inadequate and puzzling , passed on by other children and received with incredulity . |
| 14 | Other victims it carried off were the acid Mrs Friar in Forres and old Jan van Meers in New Zealand . |
| 15 | Among the projects carried out were the creation of two folk museums , the laying out of public parks and gardens ; a nature trail ; a children 's playground ; the restoration of an old ‘ Norse ’ mill , and the laying down of a car park for a small craft shop . |
| 16 | Throughout the week you come upon games which you see as vital and by the end of the week you have had so many vital games that you have forgotten some of them but one which definitely stood out was the fourball between Howard Clark and Mark James and Curtis Strange and Payne Stewart . |