Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [n mass] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heirs of the executed and forfeited rebels lacked the means and the backing to use force to regain what their fathers had lost , and the enemies Edward had made in the extreme north by concluding a truce with the Scots were in no position to make their influence felt . |
| 2 | Omitting to tell his wife , he personally assumed financial responsibility for up to £11,000 and it was not until the house arrived at Wembley in March 1924 that he recovered the £6,300 that he had spent , and finally admitted to Lady Emily that he had been ‘ rather fearful of death before repayment as it would have hit me badly ! ’ |
| 3 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 4 | The mist also shrouded the fish and we thrashed away mightily , to no avail . |
| 5 | Dark clouds enveloped the aircraft and it began to bump through them . |
| 6 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 7 | It became the headquarters and shop window of the movement . |
| 8 | Including plays in the expensive and handsomely produced folio format announced the works as worthy of serious reading by serious readers . |
| 9 | He then produced the £15 and counted it out himself on the corner of the table , not letting the chairman or anyone else do so . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought for the £48 you got the sheep as well as the quota . ’ |
| 11 | I brought the duck I do n't want the duck so I said to her I got the duck but after good girl and she you 're alright with one thing and another and I said I told her I said I said to her when we were over there I said look , look you 're right if you like again so er warden came round |
| 12 | We refuelled , repaired the brakes and emptied some sand out of the aircraft , and the next day we checked the aircraft and weather and did some minor maintenance , returning to the hotel at 3.30 pm . |
| 13 | Aye everything was gi really fantastic the people that helped the people that gave to the strike , out of this world I know the help they had was really fantastic . |
| 14 | David Park , head of the Courtauld 's Conservation Department , described the works as of ‘ amazingly high quality ’ . |
| 15 | Despite the lack of comparative data marked decline in numbers since 1938 is assumed and likely , as Walpole-Bond described the species as ‘ quite common ’ . |
| 16 | Alan Soden told the court that he caught the fish because his family was desperate for food . |
| 17 | ‘ I dismissed the sheep and its proprietor , and had my room swept . ’ |
| 18 | And of course , when Jesus came and he healed the people and he spoke words of , of deliverance to those who are demon oppressed and he spoke words of that brought help to those who are blind and so on , there is of course , er , to the natural mind , a very natural explanation , it can all be explained away because you can not do these things ! |
| 19 | When the bells rang and the bishop blessed the people and her cousin , Gayane , went to church , holding a child by each hand , Astrik turned her waxen face away . |
| 20 | I remember once the late professor G S Stuart reminding us that , in relation to the death of Jesus on the cross , we do not know how deep were the waters crossed , or how dark was the night that the lord passed through ere he found the sheep that was lost . |
| 21 | It di we do n't get all the details in the story that Jesus tells of here , but it 's quite certain that it was n't just a case of wandering along a nice path until he found the sheep and then bringing it home . |
| 22 | On the day before the auction , Bob Spence inspected the Swordfish and his friend Claude Johnson helped to point out HS554 as the best one of the bunch — it was the only one of the seven that had an engine that could still be turned over . |
| 23 | When Eva first visited the corps as Territorial Commander Lord and Lady Thurso were there to receive her . |
| 24 | The Judge told the pair that having chosen to become involved in the evil activities of the IRA they now had to pay the price of their folly while those who had sent them out remained at large . |
| 25 | Council officers told the works and health committee that the scheme would help the many pupils that became involved in the food industry after leaving school . |
| 26 | Both told the People that Bremner had offered them bribes before and during a crucial league decider between Leeds United and Wolves at the end of the season in 1972 . |
| 27 | When Sapt told the people that Princess Flavia had accepted the King as her future husband , they were wild with happiness . |
| 28 | Britain 's top singer-impressionist told The People and friends he was planning to take the AIDS wonder drug AZT in a desperate fight against lymphoma , a rare and deadly form of cancer which he contracted four years ago . |
| 29 | Taking the traditional and un-Right-On view of child-bearing , Jackson told the staff that women needed time to recover physically . |
| 30 | He told the staff that the usual punishment for fornication was flogging , but in this instance the father had insisted upon death for his daughter . |