Example sentences of "and [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
2 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
3 | Chatichai , who had previously removed three parties from his ruling coalition and had replaced them with two new members , had been under pressure for some time from the military and the media to carry out an extensive reshuffle in order to cleanse his government of allegedly corrupt elements . |
4 | Gran had noticed it three evenings ago , when they were getting the breakfast things ready , and had pushed it behind one of the geraniums as if she did n't like the sight of it . |
5 | She worked as a tailoress with the Tailoring Guild for many years and had made lots of good friends amongst her work-mates . |
6 | She regarded the Tollemarche ladies as being outside the pale , and had treated them with such blatant condescension that they had quailed , and had sought her goodwill by voting her hastily into offices in those organizations in which she had deigned to take an interest . |
7 | Constance had supervised Camille 's introduction to the children of the neighbourhood , to her own nephews and nieces and those of approved families — some in which the parents were still encouraging their infants to assist on their shoplifting expeditions had been dropped from her acquaintance , as she regarded petty larceny as common and ill-advised — and had taken her to many places deemed of interest to children which Scarlet would have found uncongenial . |
8 | No one did want the films , not in America , at least ; Nicholson and Hellman had tampered with the popular view of western history and had taken it to deeper levels , failing totally to appreciate that mass audiences enjoyed westerns purely because they provided escapism . |
9 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
10 | He was only interested in himself and his business , and had married her under false pretences . |
11 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |