Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A past President of the National Consumer Credit Federation reported the way in which he had once been collecting himself , and in one building found his way blocked by three tearaways playing threateningly with knives . |
| 2 | The priest found his eyes drawn towards it and made a conscious effort to stop staring at it . |
| 3 | By restricting the right to vote to fully accepted church members , political power in Massachusetts was placed in the hands of the godly men who had led the expedition ; those who had joined the expedition merely in the hope of a better standard of living found their efforts justified by success because , despite some difficult times in the 1630s , the labouring population in the colony by the 1640s was fairly certainly more prosperous than they would have been if they had stayed in England , and about 20,000 people had settled in New England at a total cost of about £200,000 . |
| 4 | This form is called a medusa after the unfortunate woman in a Greek myth who was loved by the god of the sea and as a result had her hair changed by a jealous goddess into snakes . |
| 5 | Therefore absolute trust , which we placed eagerly with the likes of Clarkie and as a result had our faces rubbed in the dirt , can not reasonably be expected . |
| 6 | A MUSLIM woman who has not seen her bridegroom since the day of a registrar 's office wedding had her marriage annulled yesterday by a Scottish judge . |
| 7 | ‘ In the autumn we had a situation where the owner of a Wolsingham cafe wanted his staff trained . |
| 8 | Madame wondered how long it would be before Boy got his hair cropped short so that he looked just like the others . |
| 9 | But as Brian Harris , the Institute 's director of Professional Conduct , pointed out , the Disciplinary Committee had its hands tied because the transgression took place before a resolution raising the ceiling on fines took effect . |
| 10 | And during the next thirty years composers associated with the Académie set his poems , including a translation of the Psalms , to music in which , as Philip Sidney put it , ‘ every semibreif or mynom had its syllables matched accordingly with a long foote and a short foote ’ , not monodic but in harmony with each syllable sung simultaneously in all parts . |
| 11 | The police tear-gassed all the university dorms : people had asthma attacks and a girl had her wrist broken . |
| 12 | A papal Secretaria Apostolica in Rome for carrying on official correspondence had its functions defined by Pope Innocent VIII in 1487 ; and by the early sixteenth century a quite extensive and well-organised papal secretariat concerned largely with relations with the secular states of Europe had developed . |
| 13 | A woman staying at a local hotel returned to find her room ransacked and another motorist had her car broken into . |
| 14 | My husband got his project cut off two weeks ago , and I have n't had any relief since . |
| 15 | Chasing disappearing water out of the bath , a two-year-old got his hand trapped in the metal ring of the plug hole , each pudgy finger neatly jammed through a separate hole . |
| 16 | Going to his cabin one night the guilty engineer found his bulkheads papered with blue toilet paper and Bluecol stickers everywhere . |
| 17 | The lovely Mrs Wright , still on her knees , stirred sleepily and the Collector saw her profile mirrored in a pool of rainwater beside her . |
| 18 | The former Clipstone Colliery linesman had his progress impeded by a string of top-class seamers during a frustrating period on the Nottinghamshire staff , and considered quitting the game before Ken Higgs recruited him for Leicestershire in 1990 . |
| 19 | But the Lad had his eyes fixed on Fergus . |
| 20 | All infants in the regulated group had their cords clamped between 25 and 35 seconds after delivery ; positioning 20 cm below the introitus was possible in all but two cases . |
| 21 | Certainly the Man who had just opened the door of Woil 's cage had his attention distracted by the shout . |
| 22 | Mr Arsmtrong said : ‘ She said she thought he was going to start on her again so she went into the kitchen to get a knife and while her husband had his back turned she pushed the knife into his lower back . |
| 23 | But when my summer job ended my infatuation ended with it . |
| 24 | When the great day came her friends called for her . |
| 25 | More than half of those receiving Family Credit had their occupations classified as catering , cleaning , hairdressing and other personal services , clerical and selling . |
| 26 | The knowledge left her feeling shaken . |
| 27 | The 119 people who were wheelchairbound had their wheelchairs assessed for defects . |
| 28 | A mystic who refused to retract a statement accusing Tughluk of tyranny had his mouth held open by skewers while excrement was poured down his throat . |
| 29 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 30 | The crowding pushed Izzie and the Mason further and further forward until the parson had his back pressed against the altar . |