Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [noun] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also used to bursting into unexpected crescendos of sound when Ingrid 's voice cracked or Freddie lost his pitch , and infilling with fiddly bits when some backstage hitch caused long pauses . |
| 2 | On Feb. 13 Shin Kanemaru , the head of the Miyazawa faction , commented that many Japanese had forgotten that Japan owed its prosperity to the American market . |
| 3 | It has been claimed that Aindow allowed himself to be struck on the leg to support the false story that he had been hit by the car . |
| 4 | It is reported that Edison set it recording and spoke ‘ Mary had a little lamb ’ into it . |
| 5 | Fifa , Italia '90 and the English FA are all agreed that the hooligan element among English fans could be better contained if England played their opening games on an island . |
| 6 | At school , more than half ( 54pc ) said they had been bullied and 45pc thought their teachers could not cope with the bullies . |
| 7 | It was wider than it had looked and Fenella thought she had been right to think it led away from the road , deeper into the hillside . |
| 8 | Nothing was resolved and Athelstan felt he had failed to take a decisive role . |
| 9 | Awford was booked and Barnes set his sights 20 yards from goal . |
| 10 | The SOC government had been set to release some 400 political detainees and POWs on Jan. 3 but the move had been cancelled after Fresard denounced it as " a pure propaganda piece " . |
| 11 | Financial disaster was temporarily averted when Barnato put his money in and replaced Bentley as chairman in 1926 . |
| 12 | Whilst I was wondering just what I might buy with it , the problem was solved when Mum bought me a grey shirt . |
| 13 | A man as highly educated as Augustine changed his mind about them in the course of his life . |
| 14 | This theory holds that , although human society originated as Freud described it in Totem and Taboo , subsequent social evolution led to repetitions and expansion of that primal trauma which , although on a smaller scale than the original one , nevertheless share something of its traumatic nature and crucial consequences — particularly for the subsequent evolution of the superego . |
| 15 | First , the curt instruction to make a mayonnaise ‘ a la main ’ , though this proved much easier than expected when Eric started us off with three egg yolks and a healthy dollop of strong French mustard ( tip of the year for this amateur chef ) before adding the first drop of oil . |
| 16 | He and Richard had sensed that Emor had its own self-generated laws of existence , and that these laws must never be broken . |
| 17 | Erm , you may have heard that vandals destroyed our community seat on the Long Dobbs Lane last week . |
| 18 | A product lawfully made or service provided which complies with Community essential standards must therefore be allowed free entry into all the Member States of the Community . |
| 19 | The teacher had noticed that Martha held her books almost at arm 's length . |
| 20 | Her father took some persuading but eventually accepted that Alexandra had nothing to do with organizing his trip . |
| 21 | It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result . |
| 22 | Her cousin Liz had always said that Ross reminded her of a ferocious , hungry lion gliding smoothly through the tall grass of life , looking for his supper ! |
| 23 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
| 24 | Jesus , in such a statement , is held to be unique , if only through the fact that this is the human of whom it must be said that God raised him . |
| 25 | The Metropolitan Police have said that Courtney offered his services — but he was turned down for any work . |
| 26 | He had seen that Charity loved him . |
| 27 | At eight Maggie had not known that her grandmother was famous , but she had seen that people had something in their manner when they looked at Rachel ; later she learned that something was respect . |
| 28 | The criterion of simplicity could itself be referred , as it was by Newton , to a God who had ensured that nature did nothing in vain or , as it was by Michael Faraday in the nineteenth century , to a God who had ensured that the book of his works would be as simple to comprehend as the book of his words . |
| 29 | Mann said it could be done and Denega drove him to the chapel to see ‘ if the small cracks in the facade could be enlarged ’ . |
| 30 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |