Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [conj] [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This uninhibited tourist did not look like the Frankenstein monster whom many Americans had expected and some of them began to wonder if they had got Khrushchev and his modest and dignified wife wrong . |
| 2 | Although he had been brought up in a brothel , Katherine had ensured that neither of her children knew the true function of the house , and while they might suspect where some of here money came from — especially Patrick — they were in no position to argue about it . |
| 3 | The inquiries of Crown agents had revealed that some of the royal forests , such as Morfe , had become valueless as hunting-grounds through long neglect . |
| 4 | Since the Government 's own inspectors had said that half of secondary school children were being educated in substandard buildings why did he not cancel the CTC programme and use the money to repair Britain 's crumbling schools ? |
| 5 | They had agreed that each of them should have carte blanche , no questions asked nor opinions given , unsolicited . |
| 6 | Isolated press reports at the time had noted that most of these forces were from the Nuer tribe , and their victims had been mainly from the Dinka tribe , of which Garang was a member . |
| 7 | I 'd like to know who cut the strings of her tennis racket too , the first formers looked at one another , it certainly is queer the way things have been happening to poor Mary Lou lately , even her prayer book had disappeared and some of her pencils had gone . |
| 8 | Unlike the first one , which had found that many of the coalfields had not been mapped , this one reported that the existing maps were seriously out of date . |
| 9 | Earlier , the Pakistan Times of March 13 had confirmed that another of his sons , Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi , had been dismissed as federal Minister of Communications , reportedly for contacting the government 's political opponents . |
| 10 | But long intervals had elapsed since many of these offences were committed . |
| 11 | I had suggested that some of our guests might enjoy a post-wedding , post-reception , post-dinner nightcap in our hotel room . |
| 12 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |