Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue lacked the clear-headed analysis that I have come to expect from NI . |
| 2 | Lisa and Phoebe shared the painful knowledge that they had been conning themselves as well as their men . |
| 3 | He let them pass , acknowledged them barely , made the faint pretence that he had chosen this path by chance for a late afternoon walk , even gazed up at Skiddaw , and their gurgled laughter mixed in with his own longing for the gurgling of their necks to gape blood . |
| 4 | In 1955 , after months of agonizing , Dennis and Millie Jones finally made the momentous decision that they would leave the security of tiny Maesteg in Mid Glamorgan and head for a new life of the other side of the world . |
| 5 | The hon. Member for West Bromwich , East made the simple proposal that it should be a criminal offence to take any alcohol if one is driving a train . |
| 6 | Eisenhower made the elementary point that they really should agree to stop such wasteful rivalry but they failed . |
| 7 | In his speech , Charles praised my ‘ sterling contribution ’ to the school and shortly after it Paul came up to me and made the touching suggestion that I should give some classes in the summer term — if I was still free . |
| 8 | The John Soames Museum made the unlikely complaint that it had found itself too busy as a consequence of the poster 's impact . |
| 9 | In the same interview with the two journalists , Wilson made the further point that he believed that a faction in DI5 had pursued a vendetta against himself and his close colleagues . |
| 10 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 11 | I made the same mistake that I make , year after year . |
| 12 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 13 | Then God made the wonderful world that we live in … |
| 14 | Suddenly , the cafe stopped being the place where I worked and once again it became the bizarre oasis that I 'd happened upon all those months earlier . |
| 15 | Nippon DEC also announced the other day that it has developed and will be distributing software that interfaces the DEC VAX series with NEC Corp 's APEX 2400 and APEX 7400 series of PABXs . |
| 16 | As the Club Conference Committee was struggling to express this wider vision in an initial Statement of Aims , it was Philip in 1964 who produced the winning title that we all now take for granted — Frontier Youth Trust . |
| 17 | I forwarded that letter to the Department of Employment and got the unsatisfactory answer that it fully understood my constituent 's position and his reluctance to consider a bank loan at this time , but was ’ sorry in this instance not to be able to offer an alternative suggestion . ’ |
| 18 | He said that this would be unnecessary and I got the distinct impression that I should not ask any more questions about it but be content that I had got my letter back . |
| 19 | I got the distinct impression that he was n't actually too keen on slowing down so I could get out , let alone stop . |
| 20 | Once again she got the distinct impression that he did n't want to talk about the sculptor . |
| 21 | Then she suddenly got the wild idea that you might have taken it to attack Alain . |
| 22 | But erm I remember when we got the original broom that we 've got in the garden now , the golden one |
| 23 | Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one . |
| 24 | He thus conveyed the false impression that it was in demand . |
| 25 | It was now that Sean realised the bad decision that he had made . |
| 26 | God never promised the old humanity that it could resist and defeat the Evil One . |
| 27 | Hyndman drew the pessimistic conclusion that it was British power , rather than any kind of pacifism , which held the key to peace . |
| 28 | THE ROYAL Bank of Scotland last night dismissed the renewed speculation that it plans a stock market flotation for its highly profitable insurance subsidiary , Direct Line , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 29 | Radio France Internationale reported the same day that it had received a communication from the leaders of three Togolese opposition parties protesting that ( the above ) key portfolios had gone to members of Eyadema 's party , the Togolese People 's Rally ( RPT ) , and calling on the HCR not to ratify the list . |
| 30 | In short , revisionist economic historians have played down the significance of the reforms introduced after 1905 , and controverted the liberal belief that it promised to bring social stability to the countryside . |