Example sentences of "[num] things [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pity of it was , not long after my father died in 1933 things improved quite a lot in the material sense . |
| 2 | There are two or three things said by the judge which we 'll be examining |
| 3 | Only three things worried me : the prodigious thirst for fuel , the lack of anti-lock on the brakes and a steering system that combined over-sensitivity with vagueness . |
| 4 | Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good |
| 5 | The subtitle is An Allegorical Apology for Christianity , Reason and Romanticism , and it is important to remember that for Lewis the three things went together . |
| 6 | Three things struck me most in comparing the UK market with my experiences before I arrived here from the Equifax Inc in Atlanta . |
| 7 | By the 1870s things had changed much since Harrowby 's BAAS address of 1854 . |
| 8 | But for the Business Studies and Public Relations students on the right in 1986 things looked pretty rosy . |
| 9 | In 1981 things started to come together towards bond redemption . |
| 10 | But in nineteen seventy nine things did go wrong . |
| 11 | Essentially , the bisexual Bessie was the Madonna of her day , the Queen Of The Blues , the Empress Of Erotica , her ‘ Empty Bed Blues ’ providing a catalogue of lovers who had satisfied her sexually , while ‘ Foolish Man Blues ’ found her musing about homosexuality : ‘ There 's two things got me puzzled , there 's two things I do n't understand/That 's a mannish-acting woman and a skipping , twistin' woman-acting man . ’ |
| 12 | Two things caused a gradual decline in the number of Rottweilers . |
| 13 | This could not be explained , other than to say that the two things caused the passage to " jar " . |
| 14 | He meant , in fact , a real ornament , for Hilary Frome was ornamental rather than creditable , but the two things elided in his mind . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry that I was unable to get , well two things went wrong first of all the date of the exhibition 's changed Gaugin and his friends in Brittany , due to circumstances beyond our control . |
| 16 | One or two things cropped up . |
| 17 | If space and time were properties of things in themselves , he argued , then if two things had the same properties , there would be no means of telling them apart , and Leibniz 's " principle of indiscernibles " would hold true . |
| 18 | By mid-June , two things had crucially altered his prospects of victory : first , at Châlons , Judith arrived with men from Aquitaine ; second , Louis the German and a small but experienced force met up with Charles near Auxerre . |
| 19 | Finally , if a comparison is possible at all , this can only be because ultimately we have non-comparative knowledge of the two things compared . |
| 20 | Two things made him slow down as he came to the entrance . |
| 21 | Two things made intelligibility difficult . |
| 22 | Two things made that strategy profitable in third-world loans which do not obviously apply in property . |
| 23 | Two things made an immediate impact . |
| 24 | It was significant because during the course of it two things became very plain to Anna . |
| 25 | And he had a list which I 've , I 've got there and er I think he got two things suggested that were on his list from the group of people who were supposed to be aware and er about twenty things which he thought maybe they should have thought about , and had n't . |
| 26 | Two things stopped me . |
| 27 | Her hands had begun to tighten around his neck , when abruptly two things happened at once . |
| 28 | ‘ But then two things happened . |
| 29 | Two things happened the next day . |
| 30 | While it was printing two things happened . |