Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was born sixteen years ago , and we realised that first winter that there was something wrong . |
| 2 | She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better . |
| 3 | The case made Scottish legal history as it was the first prosecution under Section 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 4 | The case made Scottish legal history as it was the first prosecution brought under the new Section 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 5 | Queuing for a bus he met another English student and they decided to head for Mexico City . |
| 6 | And we were reminded of this last week when , in making our way up from the quay , we passed this sweet shop and there were the sugar mice in the window , and the cat , and that 's why we went in and bought some . |
| 7 | The car made another sharp manoeuvre and she fell against him again . |
| 8 | They got a new one , they had another , then they had another idea then , they came round and had erm , had , turned round and said , right they done away with part of the wire and they got another big wheel so you can go right over the top next time , they done away with the big hook , so you could shackle your , your chain on to the wire , then you could go right over the top and then they get the old short chains like that . |
| 9 | We made some small talk as I tried to fix my eyes on his face to forget that my palms were sweating and my peripheral vision was registering only sky . |
| 10 | She made some weak excuse when she telephoned to break the appointment , but she knew perfectly well that she was apprehensive about going out in case the weather changed and it began to rain . |
| 11 | In their famous study of kinship in Bethnal Green , Young and Willmott made this very point when they said , in their introduction , |
| 12 | ‘ And it was only when we were tucked up in her freezing room in Charlotte Street that I got this strange feeling and I said , ‘ But you 're not Janet , are you ? ’ |
| 13 | Yeah and we wound , re-wound the tape and er looked for the number and it 's the same number , I 've done it three times and I got this other bloke and I went right through it once and it says |
| 14 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 15 | So they went and got some barbed wire and they strung it across this street you know , Street at . |
| 16 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
| 17 | The nature of these changes , then , can be seen as some confirmation that the trends identified by Dearlove were genuine enough , but that working them through has taken much longer to achieve and involved much more upheaval than his initial analysis would have suggested . |
| 18 | Minor bombing incidents in Buenos Aires and Santiago caused little structural damage and nobody was reported to have been injured . |
| 19 | The whole sea seemed alive that night and there was little sleep for the crew , needless to say . |
| 20 | She admitted she suffered some gentle ribbing when she first joined the all-male contingent but was now accepted as a member of the team . |
| 21 | He played some good stuff and I did n't raise my game when I needed to , ’ added Wilkinson . |
| 22 | Newens caused some unintentional hilarity when he commented on the policies of the Ceauşescu regime towards its Hungarian and German minorities . |
| 23 | She told another foreign reporter that she had spent most of her time at the General Staff learning English . |
| 24 | The second set unfolded in much the same way , with the Herts player — who recently scored another major success when he beat the nationally-ranked Neil Dyson in a county friendly — rally from 4–5 down to hold his serve and make it all-square , before breaking Ainley 's service in the following set to go 6–5 ahead . |
| 25 | He composed much liturgical music but he admitted that , in writing his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes for the entertainment of his friends , he had been vaguely inspired by the friezes on antique Greek vases . |
| 26 | The implications of such reforms caused growing social unrest and there were strikes in the public sector , which was threatened with mass redundancies . |
| 27 | She told one foreign reporter that she knew of the rumours and laughed them off , saying , ‘ If my relationship with the General Staff makes me a secret agent , maybe I am ! ’ |
| 28 | Protected from prosecution by an amnesty law of 1978 , the military opposed any such investigation but their claim that they had been fighting a war against left-wing subversion became increasingly untenable with the discovery of mass graves containing the bodies of their political opponents and the disclosure of how they had indulged in corrupt financial practices while in power , including the payment of US$3,000,000 to Pinochet 's son [ see pp. 37528-29 ; 37852-53 ; 37958 ] . |
| 29 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 30 | IT BECAME OBVIOUS last year that there was a general lack of interest in aviation in the Staffordshire/south Cheshire area , highlighted by the huge outcry when the local planning authority granted temporary permission for a microlight flying site . |