Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they went for a drink everybody was calling them scabs and if they went anywhere then , some some had their cars sprayed with paint and oh they had everything done , they were all against them . |
| 2 | Some had their passports seized . |
| 3 | ANOTHER had his head submerged in a kitchen sink by a nurse who was ‘ testing his breaking point . ’ |
| 4 | One of five officers was kicked unconscious and another had his nose broken after a prisoner slipped his handcuffs to lead the assault . |
| 5 | One of five officers was kicked unconscious and another had his nose broken after one of the prisoner slipped his handcuffs to lead the assault . |
| 6 | Three had their convictions quashed by the Appeal Court earlier this year — the fourth had his appeal turned down and is still serving a life sentence . |
| 7 | Nearly half of these had their contributions paid in whole or part by their employers , a third having them paid in full . |
| 8 | Many admitted their departments discriminated against over 65s as a matter of policy . |
| 9 | It was the same with the herring gutters that was here , I mind them working on the pier down here , and they all had their fingers tied up with Clotes There was the skill that work in this . |
| 10 | Honoré de Balzac , Charles Baudelaire and Karl Marx all had their heads examined . |
| 11 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 12 | Scott Taylor , Jeff Hopkins , Parkinson and Kevin Dillon all had their names taken before Parkinson got his marching orders for a foul on Bob Taylor . |
| 13 | They all had their hands tied behind their backs and one prisoner was in his underwear . |
| 14 | For example , we decided to pay attention to the way we looked so we all had our hair cut short — except Wally — and took to wearing Hush Puppies and jeans , a kind of mod look — which was odd considering that Malcolm had a shop which specialised in teddy boy gear . |
| 15 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 16 | And many had their skulls smashed when riding on top of a carriage because they ‘ came into collision with a bridge ’ . |
| 17 | Many of the dog-whelks sampled on the shore there in October 1981 had their shells encrusted with the tubes of spirorbid worms , which suggests that they had spent the summer below the tidemarks to escape the heat . |
| 18 | However , William IV considered his faith pledged to the enactment of a statute similar in essentials to the Whig Government 's Bill . |
| 19 | Three had their convictions quashed by the Appeal Court earlier this year — the fourth had his appeal turned down and is still serving a life sentence . |
| 20 | It was clear by February that Frederick would allow no compromises ; he returned six prisoners to the city , five of whom were blinded , while the sixth had his nose cut off . |
| 21 | Forty-six other prisoners convicted for association with Bouiali were pardoned by Chadli in November , while a further five had their sentences reduced by five years . |
| 22 | The males fell into four categories : nine had their tails cut off and a longer one stuck on ( with quick-acting glue ) , nine had a shorter one stuck on , and , as controls , nine were left intact , and nine had their own tail cut off and then immediately glued back again . |
| 23 | Looking back it may appear surprising that the militancy of the seamen in 1911 had compelled the Federation to alter its stance at all , so impregnable had its position appeared to be . |
| 24 | Two had their limbs cut off , including one of my friends . |
| 25 | I saw you two had your heads bowed and I was pretty sure it was n't religious devotion . |
| 26 | Each set of four had their reins held by a ‘ driver ’ , so once on stage there was no way that a message could be passed to a colleague should anything go amiss . |
| 27 | Both kept their eyes fixed firmly ahead . |
| 28 | ‘ Mr Smith senior had his wrists bound with a tie behind his back . |