Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [vb pp] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These woods gave cover to the herds of wild deer which for centuries had provided sport for the kings and nobility , guests of the Berkeley family at the nearby castle . |
| 2 | If this figure applied to the county as a whole then the criticisms which were used to attack progressive methods were quite unjustified ; far too few schools had embraced Plowden for them to be having the catastrophic influence which their detractors attributed to them . |
| 3 | Distraught with grief and shock , rejected by her own mother and father , Melissa had been taken by the warm-hearted Craigs into their own home ; the small matter of illegitimacy had been discreetly dealt with by a statutory change of name and a wedding-ring , and the bereaved parents had found consolation for the loss of their only child in caring for his son . |
| 4 | Twelve consortia and seven individual companies had submitted bids for the four main contracts under phase 1A of the project by the deadline of April 20 , 1990 . |
| 5 | But it emerged at the meeting , held in Yokohama , Japan , that only seven of its 47 member governments had prepared strategies for meeting this target . |
| 6 | In about half the countries in the world governments had imprisoned people for their beliefs , while more than 100 governments had resorted to torture or the maltreatment of prisoners ; thousands of people had " disappeared " or were extra-judicially executed in 29 countries , most notably in Sri Lanka , Brazil , El Salvador , Guatemala and Peru . |
| 7 | Officials had recommended £450 for the Band D rate but councillors decided that the figure should be reduced . |
| 8 | The Moors had ruled Granada for over seven hundred years and this was their monument , the gardens where nightingales still sang and the beauty of the Alhambra — ‘ the red castle ’ . |
| 9 | This meant that by last night individual investors had written cheques for at least £4.8billion , with counting still to finish . |
| 10 | Following the talks in July 1989 between Vietnam and US officials regarding a plan to resettle in the USA former officials of the South Vietnam regime [ see p. 36816 ] , it was announced on Jan. 5 , 1990 , that 156 former Vietnamese re-education camp inmates and their families had left Vietnam for the USA . |
| 11 | European firms had sold technology for the project , as had " front " companies based in the United States . |
| 12 | This community of some 25,000 Albanian Moslems had fled Greece for Albania in October 1944 . |
| 13 | Two patients had experienced diarrhoea for 25 and 27 years respectively , which had remained unexplained . |
| 14 | No patients had taken antibiotics for at least one month before endoscopy . |
| 15 | Showbusiness and sporting stars had donated items for the auction and a sweatshirt given by Ian Botham which he had worn during his charity walk from Aberdeen to Ipswich fetched £33 . |
| 16 | Monique explained that she and the children had undergone psychotherapy for a year . |
| 17 | The giants had taken Tara for their own and when Tealtaoich and the others had fled to the Forest Court , Nuadu had gone with them , neither quite one of them nor quite not one of them , but feeling a cautious kinship with them and discovering , with cynical amusement , that they were looking to him to lead them back . |
| 18 | By 1915 , 74 local authorities had obtained permission for 105 schemes . |
| 19 | The competitors who had entered all three parts of the competition had usually designed all three parts together , and in some cases had shown drawings for the different parts on the same piece of paper . |
| 20 | Complaint was made that there was no free election of knights of the shire , and that those elected knights had taken bribes for appointing tax-collectors in it . |
| 21 | The hunters had drawn straws for their positions of the evening , which in order of desirability were : sack man , head man , tail man and middle man . |
| 22 | Unlike Roman Catholics , who had to come to terms with the use of the vernacular , Anglicans had used English for four hundred years . |
| 23 | Both groups had claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on Antonio Rios , former president of the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela ( CTV ) and a leading member of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , who had recently resigned from his post to face trial on charges of influence peddling . |
| 24 | Investment in canals had brought prosperity for many shareholders and there was similar enthusiasm to invest in the railways . |
| 25 | For the first class she had just taken two soft pencils , and she had sketched while the others had mixed watercolours for the still life of a bowl of apples , oranges and pears . |
| 26 | Many of Prince 's records had attracted publicity for their sexual lyrics , and the circumstances of the record 's withdrawal added fuel to the fire . |
| 27 | ( The ‘ also ’ refers to the fact that the magistrates had made rules for the county gaol close by . ) |
| 28 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
| 29 | In the England of Edward I , if the great feudatories had refused payment for fear of losing caste , by the reign of Edward III all were ‘ now prepared to accept wages for military service ’ . |
| 30 | In education , the Tories had erected ladders for children to climb . |