Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meeting in the southern Peruvian port of Ilo , President Jaime Paz Zamora signed an agreement with his Peruvian counterpart , Alberto Fujimori , on Jan. 24 , which would grant Bolivia , landlocked since it lost territory to Chile in the 1879 War of the Pacific , access to the Pacific Ocean . |
| 2 | CHILDREN in danger of growing into young criminals should be identified and helped before they start school , a leading academic said yesterday . |
| 3 | By being uncooperative , a person might very well make the task of the constable more difficult , but it may he doubted whether he commits obstruction . |
| 4 | Much of this written work can be done alone , but some of it is best achieved in collaboration ; it might be that the purpose of the drama is to work together to produce documents , for example : The letters written by the sailors on the Mary Rose as they left port ( had they been able to write ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose , ’ she ventured as they neared Water Gypsy , ‘ you 'll have to go back to the beechwoods this morning . |
| 6 | He was frightened and trembled when he saw iron bars because of his earlier experience of detentions . |
| 7 | He winced as she dabbed disinfectant on the cut and covered it up for him . |
| 8 | These Awards are intended to encourage schools and local agencies to work together in involving young people in sport , and keeping them involved when they leave school . |
| 9 | ARGENTINA 's new Finance Minister , Mr Antonio Erman Gonzalez , has quickly plunged into the free market economics President Carlos Menem promised when he took power in July . |
| 10 | I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas . |
| 11 | Do you remember Uncle Charles Lane building a bomb-proof wall outside the kitchen ? — and how you were so excited when the raids came because it meant Pop and I were able to stop work and play idiotic games with the three of you ? ! |
| 12 | Then he added before she had time to answer , ‘ I expect you have an English lesson pretty soon — especially since you did n't have one this afternoon ? ’ |
| 13 | His first professional contact with the Royal Navy came when he joined Navy News in 1969 . |
| 14 | John had made a few 1st Division appearances with Charlton , but undoubtedly the climax of his career came when he captained Palace to promotion to that premier division of world soccer at the end of 1968–69 — and then maintained his high level of performance by helping to keep the Palace in the top flight for the two remaining seasons in which he stayed with the club . |
| 15 | But the struggle must have taken its toll on her , until the time came when she needed help herself . |
| 16 | We were getting on great and at the end they asked if we had drink at home . |
| 17 | Half the people asked if they had sex with the radio on were listening to the Radio 1 star , just voted Britain 's top DJ . |
| 18 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 19 | When I said I was , she asked if I had access to the satellite telephone , the only means of making an international call since the phone system had been destroyed in January . |
| 20 | My social worker who gave me advice asked if I wanted adoption or fostering , and I said fostering ( it was a white family ) . |
| 21 | I was soaked from lying in manky bog-like horrids , stalking some half-witted bird around lava lagoons , and John asked if I want tea . |
| 22 | She sat down without a word and shook her head when Whitlock asked if she wanted coffee . |
| 23 | Daddy what happened if you go glug glug glug glug glug ? |
| 24 | Two patients withdrew because they claimed intolerance to the trial tablets . |
| 25 | Sarah 's ordeal happened after she left school in Portsmouth . |
| 26 | The front door opened before she had time to walk up to it , and there was Philip , smiling a welcome to her , and behind him was her daughter-in-law . |
| 27 | They duly applauded when he quantified electrochemistry in his famous laws of electrolysis , and when he proved experimentally that electricity from a condenser , a battery or an eel was the same . |
| 28 | What happened when we dripped acid on marble chippings on a carbonate ? |
| 29 | ‘ When you mention epilepsy people straight away think of the major fit grand-mal , they do n't think of absence seizures , ’ said Mrs McLeod , whose first fit happened when she had polio as a child . |
| 30 | ‘ What happened when you left school ? ’ |