Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , the Zuwaitina canteen milk seemed to everyone concerned an instance of just such a letter-of-the-law possession , The realization that it was an issue of constitutional principle came slowly , when the Jordanian 's lawyer ( Abdulsalam Abdulhadi ) outlined his defence . |
| 2 | Some loved him , others hated him , but everyone respected what little they ever found out about this strange ‘ refusenik ’ who was part of no group or establishment , yet managed to affect so many people 's lives . |
| 3 | Everyone respected him . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , everyone envied her . |
| 5 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 6 | Although nothing became of this beyond an agreement that there were widely different views on the matter , that same year the Government of Australia proposed that the so called cull grenade should be banned . |
| 7 | I find it arrogant to compare New York and Cologne ; it 's true nothing became so inflated here , but also things were not so colourful , so deep . |
| 8 | Everyone argued about the jury . |
| 9 | ‘ La Loge ’ had been up very recently , and with nothing sold lately at anything like $12 million , it is hard to say what it is now worth . |
| 10 | nothing recommended to Goodey in that particular cause is of any good . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got nothing planned . |
| 12 | So no-one got it right , pollsters , reporters or bookmakers . |
| 13 | Off he went with Mort , beaming happily , so delighted to be flying again , and yes — you 've guessed it — Flt Lt Mort 's plane was shot down in flames and no-one got out . |
| 14 | Tours were organised by Dr Marchbank and conducted by the Librarian , Miss Wright and Ms McGrath , with the help of Miss Cowan and Mrs Booth to round up stragglers and ensure no-one got lost . |
| 15 | Everyone beamed at her . |
| 16 | Later still , living in Canada , travelling in the United States and working with Americans , I came to understand that not everyone lived history in the same way ; that for many Americans , history was only a bunch of dead stories . |
| 17 | Here everyone lived en famille ; there were swimming parties , excursions by boat , and in the evening charades or drawing-room dances . |
| 18 | The houses on the road did n't have numbers ; they all had names , and the postman knew where everyone lived . |
| 19 | No-one wanted to know , unless they could get rewrites where everyone lived happily ever after and stars of The Cosby Show had the lead roles . |
| 20 | She was all for a bit of ducking and diving , that 's how everyone lived in her estimation , but from what she had gleaned recently about her sons , it was a completely different lifestyle they were after . |
| 21 | Everyone lived together ; there was no privacy . |
| 22 | This meant that everyone lived near to one another , and they copied each other exactly . |
| 23 | He told her that he was going to continue writing to her , nothing deterred by her cold reply or rather lack of a reply . |
| 24 | Nothing deterred them . |
| 25 | George was a Sheffield man , and proud of it , accent and all , although everyone agreed that if George was dressed in a loincloth and turban he would make a very impressive hillman of the Khyber Pass , with his dark hair and very tanned skin . |
| 26 | Everyone agreed it was a fine picture , a breezy blend of wit and taste . |
| 27 | ‘ What about motor cars ? ’ — but such pseudo-theological objections to Koranic purity were , everyone agreed , below the general level of discussion . |
| 28 | Everyone agreed that ‘ socialist' ’ should be removed but the debate exacerbated nationalist tensions between Czechs and Slovaks . |
| 29 | He liked numbers ; they were funny little squiggles and he liked the way everyone agreed when an answer was right although he did not understand why . |
| 30 | Apparently , not everyone agreed , or perhaps did not get what they considered to be their fair share , for eventually the Backless baron was transported to Australia , no doubt to become another ‘ Wild Colonial Boy ’ . |