Example sentences of "had be starve of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both businesses had been starved of investment for more than thirty years . |
| 2 | Guests were too frightened to call an ambulance straight away and when one arrived Suzanne 's brain had been starved of oxygen . |
| 3 | Burma had been starved of books and so with the assistance of W. Lockett , who had worked with J.S. Furnivall in the pre-war bookshop , I secured the co-operation of the SPCK in a plan for a general bookshop . |
| 4 | had been starved of film parts and wanted to dramatise herself , the Old Bailey was told . |
| 5 | For too long now , she had been starved of one particular need , the kind a respectable woman should not dwell on for too long , a deep-down need that only a man could satisfy . |
| 6 | Romania 's once-thriving agriculture sector , collectivized under the Communist regime , had been starved of resources for development , because of the priority given to large-scale industrialization : Iliescu revealed that official agricultural production statistics had been grossly exaggerated . |