Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main purposes of o of a consortium is actually looking at the health needs erm it 's impressions that I 've I actually got o on a number of occasions that I 've er I think involvement in assessing health needs but I 've actually answered anywhere er , and I 'd very interested as to how or what kind of input erm we will be looking to on that ? |
| 2 | This may have indicated that wives had attended courses more frequently in the past and , therefore , felt less inhibited when in mixed company . |
| 3 | They had all disappeared except for one of the bigger branches that bent and pointed a little his way and seemed now to come and go before his very eyes as drifting mist obscured it . |
| 4 | The besieger had become the besieged , and Matilda had only escaped because of the gallant rearguard action of her half-brother , Robert , Earl of Gloucester , as they fought their way out of their castle before they were starved out . |
| 5 | When the sun rose on Cheddar Cliffs — as the gorge was invariably called — he found a scene which justified superlatives , and which travellers had long regarded as among the most remarkable natural sights in lowland Britain . |
| 6 | Dalgliesh had already sent while at Bramshill for the reports of the inquests on Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers . |
| 7 | But she knew that Lizzy appreciated her turning up , and that her reputation as a DI had not suffered because of her being a mother . |
| 8 | Liz agreed to contact some old friends that she had not seen since before the break-up of the relationship with her boyfriend . |
| 9 | Thus in Weiner v. Gill ( 1906 C.A. ) although jewellery sold on approval was subsequently re-sold by the buyer , the court held that property had not passed because of an express statement in the original contract that property was not to pass until the seller was paid . |
| 10 | Ivan Masek , chairman of the Screening Commission of the Czech National Council , emphasised on Jan. 3 that Richter had not resigned because of collaboration with the former secret police ( StB ) . |
| 11 | The previous year , he had left the attic at 8 a.m. and had not returned until after 11 p.m. , having failed to tell me that he was intending to spend the day with Maman , and why . |
| 12 | She felt again that same deep chill , that same sense of horror she had always felt when in the presence of such venom , as if she were discovering that evil really did exist , that liberal attitudes were vaporous , that filth could find its way into the universe and be embodied and spread relentlessly , terrifying those it infected . |
| 13 | Toby had partly under-performed because of nerves and lack of examination technique . |
| 14 | No wonder she had n't wakened till after half-past nine ! |
| 15 | Miss Malabedeely had looked embarrassed , discovered on her knees like that , but it had n't mattered because of her niceness . |
| 16 | Always used to receiving admiring glances from men , Laura had n't known whether to be pleased or not when the doctor had completely ignored her — clearly having eyes only for Julie . |
| 17 | The latter had evidently enquired as to whose command Stirling 's detachment came under and Smith informed him that it was his , but that L Detachment would revert to GHQ control on completion of their current tasks . |
| 18 | Chile and Argentina were both offered barter deals , involving the exchange of Chilean nitrates ( demand for which had recently collapsed because of German development of synthetic substitutes ) and Argentine agricultural products for Soviet crude oil , along with assistance in the setting up of their own national refineries . |
| 19 | When she died ( about 1925 ) , she left instructions in her Will for her body to be buried in this green paradise about which she had heard so much , and yet which she had never visited except in her dreams . |
| 20 | Even during the war-time emergency itself , women with children under fourteen were never conscripted , and evidence from the Ministry of Labour files suggests that interviewing panels behaved with greater leniency towards those married women who had never worked than towards those ( predominantly working class ) women who had . |
| 21 | With microwave ovens , Manila and the flu epidemic suddenly dominating the news it was as if the event had never occurred except in Sir Anthony Meyer 's imagination . |