Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller poignantly captures the variety and conflict of feelings that followed the war — the mixture of relief , sorrow , dissatisfaction , and what came to be called survival guilt . |
| 2 | This was the movement , initiated by the Wesley brothers and White field , which came to be called Methodism among those leaving the established church , and Evangelicalism among those remaining within the Anglican fold . |
| 3 | Revolutionary this certainly was in concept , for it sought to displace what came to be called Capitalism by industrial collectivism , to secure that industry should be run by the workpeople for the workpeople , and through the agency of trade unionism . |
| 4 | After a bugle call to rise at 8.30 the day seemed to be spent eating : breakfast and lunch were followed by dinner at 4 p.m. which consisted of ‘ … soup , various kinds of roasts , fowls etc. , pastry , puddings … cheese and celery — dessert , consisting of apples , oranges , dried fruit etc . ’ |
| 5 | Everything seemed to be taken care of and everybody was on a real high because it left you free to do what you wanted to do without worrying about paying this week 's rent or buying a pair of shoes , or whether a valve in the amplifier had gone and you had to replace it . |
| 6 | The whole place seemed to be organised chaos . |
| 7 | Later in 1988 these units began to be joined north of the Thames by similar ( but AC current only ) units of Class 321 for use on Cambridge and Northampton services for which sixty-eight units were authorised , together with a further five similar Class 322 units for the Stansted Airport link . |
| 8 | It is at this point that the historical link between the novel and the written text began to be lost sight of ; the highly unrealistic convention of the omniscient third person narrator then became a realist norm . |
| 9 | He loved to be called Boy . |
| 10 | In embarking on this journey , I 'd put myself into store again and set off ; like the other women I needed safety , I needed to be taken care of , to take care of myself and now to take care of this journey . |
| 11 | He schemed to be proclaimed Emperor , but as long as Menelik was known to be alive this was impossible . |
| 12 | Indeed he was a great admirer of the Greek philosopher , many of whose concepts stayed with Galileo for a long time , but he demanded to be allowed freedom from dogma and interference to pursue the truth . |
| 13 | She did quite a lot of snorting , quite a lot of brittle laughter and a very great deal of what Henry took to be assumed inarticulacy . |
| 14 | The losers were Liverpool citizens who continued to be denied access to a public facility . |
| 15 | Mixed stands of oak and ash continued to be planted upto 1945 . |
| 16 | The material deterioration in the company 's prospects had to be made public under Stock Exchange rules , and it was decided to issue the warning . |
| 17 | Hebrews 2 contains a fascinating idea that Jesus had to be made human in order to overcome death for us ; that is to say , he pioneered our way through the deep waters of death . |
| 18 | And er the bread and butter for their tea had to be cut wafer thin . |
| 19 | In Kenya bureaucracy provided 40 per cent of the country 's jobs and had to be kept content . |
| 20 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 21 | As we were to take care of our own mounts during the trek , we were shown how to groom them , which had to be done morning and evening , and how to tack up . |
| 22 | Nestorius himself refused to attend and had to be given protection by imperial troops . |
| 23 | The woman police constable , who has been in the force for five years , had to be given emergency blood transfusions at the scene after being wounded in the stomach and arms . |
| 24 | Similarly Coun John Kitson , somewhat miffed at being called a ‘ veteran , ’ insists that he did n't say prospective industrialists had to be given tea and biscuits . |
| 25 | The country 's most popular horse race was reduced to a shambles last April when 30 riders failed to realise that a second false start had been called and the event had to be declared void . |
| 26 | The District Office obtained some extra coupons to keep tutor-organisers mobile and part-time tutors showed splendid generosity in using up their own allowances to fulfil their commitments : indeed , not one course in the whole of the District had to be abandoned part-way through the spring term because the tutor could not travel . |
| 27 | Branson had drawn up what was to become known as the ‘ Million List ’ — the number of things that had to be taken care of in the next three months before the airline could fly . |
| 28 | It had to be learnt time and again by his descendants throughout the succeeding twenty centuries . |
| 29 | In , prior to ninety one ninety two which is three years prior to now , a married woman was entitled to the same as that , it was , they did n't call it basic allowance , the same amount only if she was married of course and working , it had to be earned income . |
| 30 | I had to I had to lay the table and they had to be laid spick and span you know . |