Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I got given a crate of this , it 's Château Margaux , by the small , fat and lecherous owner of one third of Singapore .
2 The evidence produced included a transcript in English of Price 's evidence before the City Court of Gôteborg ; and it was not disputed that this evidence was admissible under paragraph 12 of the Schedule 1 .
3 Other measures announced included a reduction in the rate of income tax and a further immediate increase in the price of petrol .
4 I should think two years , you know , when the restrictions got lifted a bit , so it got better , yeah .
5 As a shareware library with monthly deadlines for our advertorial copy we need a reliable Communications package , unfortunately a custom program we used developed a bug and two hours before our copy deadline we were unable to send the data via our modem .
6 As a shareware library with monthly deadlines for our advertorial copy we need a reliable Communications package , unfortunately a custom program we used developed a bug and two hours before our copy deadline we were unable to send the data via our modem .
7 But criminal prosecution requires proof beyond reasonable doubt that the person charged committed the offence .
8 Research group Incomes Data Services said that 10pc of the 100 deals it monitored involved a pay freeze .
9 If the candidate replies that she/he helped run a youth club in the town where she/he lived before you can be reasonably sure that a large number of young people is not going to come as a strange new experience .
10 The use of files imposed limitations on the types of valid and reliable data that could be obtained ; data analysed represented a compromise between these limitations and what were thought to be useful indicators of the manner or style of assessment and service delivery .
11 Cecil King behaved liked a baron at the Daily Mirror in the 1960s , scolding the Wilson government and toying with the idea of political office .
12 The tests used covered a number of topics and were not specifically related to the curriculum .
13 But the economic trends which helped created the baby boom have subsequently ensured that it would have no successors , by drawing married women permanently into the work-force .
14 But he 'd heard every word .
15 Lumberjack had started barking and then , just as abruptly , stopped again , and in the silence he 'd heard a tree come down .
16 And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy
17 ‘ I 'd heard a programme about an Indian craftsman who made wooden elephants .
18 He thought he 'd heard a sound , there towards the end of the parapet at the top of the steps .
19 ‘ I mean , we 've never heard him DJing , we just really liked the stuff he 'd done with Primal Scream , and as for Fluke , well , we 'd heard a lot of really good things about them — plus they 're signed to Creation . ’
20 I 'd heard a lot about er af er I 've been in the Transport and General Workers ' Union as a shop steward and so forth like that .
21 Maybe she 'd seen the looks of fear in her children 's eyes as she talked to them , maybe she 'd heard a rumour that somehow she was to blame .
22 She had hauled herself out of bed about twenty minutes ago when she 'd heard the doorbell .
23 She 'd heard the landlady say how it was all over now bar the shouting .
24 He 'd heard the story from three other people questioned in the village .
25 A crowd of people who 'd heard the music and the laughter from outside stood in the doorway , smiling bemusedly .
26 I 'd heard the voice of an angel — and when a meeting was eventually arranged between David and myself , through NEMS ' who were handling both of us at the time , I expected a very pimply youth to be standing there .
27 He 'd been about to call him and find out what was going on in Brooklyn when he 'd heard the voice and the rapping on the door .
28 I 'd heard the name , who has not ?
29 I 'd heard the door spring open and the stairs groan as she made good her escape .
30 He called me a usurer , which was the first time I 'd heard the word , paid me back £1.20 after four weeks , paraded at weekends in his new shirt , and we were friends thereafter .
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