Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , Silvia had been right ; he really cared about winning that race . |
| 2 | He said problems arose for covering last Wednesday 's match because of the kick-off time of 8pm and the Spurs v Feyenoord European match which ITV had networked . |
| 3 | To see Portillo as the chief axeman even sent shudders down the spine of some Tory back-benchers who argued for keeping large areas of the welfare state out of the Government 's review , particularly health and pensions . |
| 4 | ‘ My mind wandered off at four-love , ’ she admitted after winning nine games in succession from 1–1 to easily take the first set and forge a 4–0 lead in the second . |
| 5 | The cashier grumbled about changing Swiss money , but made a calculation that was to his advantage on the rate . |
| 6 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 7 | Smith , 29 , was already serving a 30-year ban when he crashed after drinking four pints of lager , the court at Leicester was told . |
| 8 | A man died and a woman was seriously injured in a stolen car which crashed after catapulting six feet off the ground into a telegraph pole . |
| 9 | A COOKSTOWN man was remanded on bail when he appeared at the local Magistrates Court yesterday charged with handling stolen goods valued at £20,000 . |
| 10 | Philip Coates , 20 , of Ann 's Terrace , Darlington , and Andrew Hull , 21 , of Bartlett Street , Darlington , appeared before town magistrates yesterday charged with stealing two garden troughs and a chimney pot . |
| 11 | His Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) has been split into sections , each charged with assisting one area of industry . |
| 12 | Karen Noddings , 18 , of Emley Moor Road , Darlington , appeared before town magistrates yesterday charged with making false representation to obtain social security benefit . |
| 13 | Paul Lowe , 27 , and William Young , 21 , both of Rochdale , were each charged with carrying offensive weapons . |
| 14 | A BUSINESSMAN appeared in court yesterday charged with soliciting another man to murder his wife . |
| 15 | And when they saw the star , they rejoiced with exceeding great joy . |
| 16 | However , there is disagreement amongst Marxist feminists about whether the oppression of women is simply a consequence of an unjust economic system or whether the oppression of women is universal , but modified under differing economic conditions . |
| 17 | It also helped in identifying important variables which had not previously been thought to be particularly interesting . |
| 18 | In a study supported by the King 's Fund a further , larger , sample of general practitioners recorded the problems they encountered in arranging acute admissions to hospital . |
| 19 | From the loan 's spread a bank endeavours to make some return on its capital resources ( approximately 4 per cent ) used in funding each loan , provide for any subsequent bad debts and meet administrative costs of the lending department . |
| 20 | So that 's all got to happen and can we expect that the improvements that have been made now to the syst to the management of this process will not give rise to the same delays that occurred in getting this system flight safe . |
| 21 | But while Whitehall changed from organizing public expenditure on an annual basis to a five-year rolling programme , the House of Commons was still authorizing expenditure on the old twelve-month pattern . |
| 22 | All of which contributed to making happier Q.T. days . |
| 23 | In the pub , after a meeting devoted to tasting home-made wine , Nigel and Simon were asked what they thought was the basis of conservatism . |
| 24 | There appears to be far more concern in anti-racist policies to alter the behaviour and attitudes of white personnel , compared with the attention devoted to altering male behaviour in schools . |
| 25 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 26 | Those are the figures that the NFU found on making simple inquiries . |
| 27 | Professor Sir David Cox of Nuffield College , Oxford , an expert on — among other things — Aids statistics , no doubt had uppermost in his mind the Prime Ministerial axing of the Lifestyle Aids survey when he referred to increasing political pressure and lamented the sinking reputation of official statistics . |
| 28 | Although the French waterlily hybridiser Joseph Latour Marliac concentrated on producing hardy varieties it is believed that he used the semi tropical waterlily N. mexicana to create some of the popular varieties available today . |
| 29 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought my game was going to disappear so I just concentrated on getting solid pars and dropped only one more shot , ’ he said . |