Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Failing a test was defined as being seen or heard to carry it out incorrectly ( eg to say the time was twenty past nine when the watch indicated a quarter to four ) , or being unable to attempt it ( eg being unable to answer when asked to identify a particular coin ) . |
| 32 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 33 | You are lucky enough to have Bella here to teach you , and your mother also , and as you know , I have undertaken to instruct you in history , since I am the one who has seen such a lot of it , as it were face to face . |
| 34 | He believed the order had been given to kill him by the DO . |
| 35 | But then , from what I hear , that 's overrun with bairns ; they 've stopped gathering them in from the streets . |
| 36 | that one was intended to go I expect yes that one was intended to go |
| 37 | She had intended using them herself . |
| 38 | Aimed at network operators and telecommunications providers , the resulting products are intended to enable them introduce new value-added services and products . |
| 39 | The Certificate in International Freight Movement Documentation from the LCCI is intended to enable you to do this . |
| 40 | The first is that the possibility of a revolution occurring in a country where capitalism was poorly developed made him aware of the problem of setting up too rigid a sequence for human evolution . |
| 41 | Perhaps she had intended to restore it to working order but with increasing age had n't been able to summon the energy or enthusiasm to cope with the disturbance . |
| 42 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 43 | She had originally intended to resell them but found she had grown attached to them and had built shelves in her sitting-room . |
| 44 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 45 | I said I was not commencing duties until the next day as my girlfriend worked in Richmond and I had arranged to see her , which I had , by phone . |
| 46 | Erm actually I 've spoken to Ian at erm Newark TEC , and he 's already arranged to see me tomorrow afternoon . |
| 47 | There was a spare one lying around We 'd finished u er stopped using them during the war some time during the war . |
| 48 | The superintendents … have at least stopped using it in a noisy and disagreeable way |
| 49 | One of ACE 's claims is that members will be able to develop systems based upon the same building blocks which are sufficiently differentiated to enable them to go after separate market niches . |
| 50 | So fascinated has he become that he 's painted nothing else in all that time . |
| 51 | But Claire Fraser was out there and he had undertaken to find her and persuade her to come home . |
| 52 | An important element of any compensation payment is the damages intended to compensate you for the injury itself , and the effect it has on you and your lifestyle , both today and in the future . |
| 53 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 54 | Then the boy said , very formally : ‘ I am honoured to meet you . ’ |
| 55 | Then , in a lilting yet hesitant voice that betrayed his unfamiliarity with English , he added , ‘ I am most honoured to meet you , Lady Fei . |
| 56 | ‘ I am honoured to meet you , the brightest gem here . ’ |
| 57 | Her eyes had flown to meet his , then dropped at his sarcastic comment as her cheeks became stained with an ugly red . |
| 58 | But no , the kids had stopped laughing they all say she 's trying to tell me off ! ! |
| 59 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 60 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |