Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 5.19 Statutory notices etc To give full particulars to the Landlord of any notice direction order or proposal for the Premises made given or issued to the Tenant by any local or public authority within [ 7 ] days of receipt and if so required by the Landlord to produce it to the Landlord and without delay to take all necessary steps to comply with the notice direction or order and at the request of the Landlord but at the cost of the Tenant to make or join with the Landlord in making such objections or representations against or in respect of any notice direction order or proposal as the Landlord shall deem expedient Seven days may be too short a period , particularly if the notice is served at the premises and not forwarded to the appropriate officer of a tenant company with any great alacrity . |
| 2 | A man wearing a hat he 'd painted and twisted into an unrecognizable shape shuffled along the corridor , pointing upwards with a contorted grimace . |
| 3 | Today he spoke of his ordeal for the first time.Shortly before midnight on Sunday he 'd checked and locked up the pub as normal . |
| 4 | She 'd searched and searched for the wallet . |
| 5 | Outwardly she had seemed no different — she 'd laughed and joked with the customers , dealt with any business matters competently and efficiently , managed to get things back on to an even keel at the club . |
| 6 | He 'd worked and taught at the Magic Theater in San Francisco ; had therapy at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur with Fritz Perls ; worked in New York with Chaikin and La Mama . |
| 7 | Not since she 'd tossed and turned with a soaring temperature at the start of the glandular fever had she endured such a ghastly night . |
| 8 | Those who were slower on the run missed the showers and were late downstairs , so they got kicked and hit by the Corporals . |
| 9 | she would n't chain it up , and it got hit and killed on the erm road just outside the Post Office was n't it ? |
| 10 | He showed her into another bare cubicle where two hatchet-faced men were scribbling , and pointed to a phone that lay scratched and bruised on the desk . |
| 11 | He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , he felt abandoned and betrayed by the women in his life . |
| 13 | I used heavy orange nylon fishing-line for the string , wound round a specially made drum for the winch , which I had strengthed and fitted with a chest-brace . |
| 14 | The High Street had been left to the pimps and the down-and-outs , and in the ancient College grounds where once the Black Friars had taught and studied in a universe made of crystal spheres , there was only the clang and clatter of brake couplings and buffers . |
| 15 | She slept longer than she had intended and woke to the glare of full morning and the bleat of the telephone . |
| 16 | In an intervention during the Home Secretary 's speech , I asked whether he had consulted or heard from the Prison Governors Association about the Bill . |
| 17 | Isambard had halted and turned in the passage , frowning a little , in two minds whether to go back to him , but in the end he did not ; he merely waited for a little while , listening until the torrent of defiance had grown strangely shaken and softened with moments of entreaty . |
| 18 | He had chartered and paid for a Learjet from the Hansa operation two weeks before for the same trip , LaGuardia to Acapulco . |
| 19 | If , on the other hand , he was not genuine in writing the letters and had connived or conduced to the fraudulent behaviour of the son , or was even aware of it and consented to it , then he would not under any logical analysis have written the letters in these terms . |
| 20 | Cadfael turned to give him a long , thoughtful look , and a few white petals that had floated and lodged in the rough cloth of his sleeve caught the stirring of air from the door , and floated free again , riding the draught into the pale , bright sunlight . |
| 21 | She had heard and read about the sufferings of innocence , she had observed sorrows and tragedies in those around her . |
| 22 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 23 | we did know somebody erm down on actually who had a a vertical blind and several of the chains had broken or disappeared on the bottom of that |
| 24 | I already had two vital tools of the caddie 's trade in my pocket : notes on the measurements and characteristics of each hole , which I had checked and rechecked on the practice days ; and a chart , issued ahead of each day 's play by the PGA which told me where the hole would be cut on each green . |
| 25 | One had toppled over , and eight oranges had rolled and scattered about the small compartment . |
| 26 | She pointed to his forehead where the blood had congealed and dried around the cut . |
| 27 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
| 28 | For a moment there she had looked and sounded like a rockhard loan-shark reclaiming an ugly debt . |
| 29 | And he had looked and behaved like a wild Indian , Carew thought with a feeling of wonder . |
| 30 | In fairness to the young girls who had come and gone over the years , he had deliberately picked well-stacked , dimwitted types whose only claim to fame was the fact that they were a good lay . |