Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ryan declined to name the embassies or the foreign countries he had approached or to specify what sums had been raised . |
| 2 | Anyone who handled the King 's money was ‘ charged ’ with the revenues he had received or collected and had to acquit himself before the Barons of the Exchequer by showing what he had done with it . |
| 3 | While the sisters were tending my blisters , I felt an inexpressible love choking me , I regretted all the uncharitable things I had thought or said about nuns , I felt as if I were the Magdalene , and Christ were anointing my feet . |
| 4 | The Pack Meeting Hall was now fairly bulging with Christmas gifts they had made or bought , or begged from their mothers . |
| 5 | It was asked , since the testator had in a general clause charged a trust relating to all dispositions on whoever should be his heir , to pay whatever legacies he had left or had ordered to be paid or done , whether , when Seia made over the three-quarters of the estate , she should vindicate the gardens in full . |
| 6 | The tumour was in its early stages and there were no signs it had spread or caused any lasting damage , said the hospital . |
| 7 | Watt found great difficulty in working with the Cornish mine captains and obtaining from them full payment for the engines they had built or modified . |
| 8 | After a time David relaxed and joined in , complimenting Felicity , chaffing her husband and turning often to Julia to remind-her of earlier conversations they had had or to ask her opinion . |