Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Acme Transport v Betts [ 1981 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 131 , at p134 , Cumming Bruce LJ said that the Court of Appeal " were indebted to the judgment and tact of Counsel in that neither of them sought to confine us by referring to authority on the meaning of other exemption clauses in other contexts " . |
| 2 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 3 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 4 | However , after a brief respite at Ossett everyone agreed to continue . |
| 5 | This year four of them agreed to set a low common external tariff instead . |
| 6 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 7 | Dr Robert Upshall said copies of the Green Party 's charter were sent to the three candidates but none of them agreed to sign it . |
| 8 | Election candidates in Darlington have failed to meet the Green challenge , according to Dr Robert Upshall , who said copies of the Green Party 's charter were sent to the three main candidates but none of them agreed to sign it . |
| 9 | The agreement was a verbal agreement only on the first day of the new year and the two of them agreed to share profits equally . |
| 10 | The upshot was that after much argument all three of them agreed to help out , and all five of us did manage to get to the church on time . |
| 11 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 12 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 13 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 14 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 15 | By the end of 1910 , complete plans for a standard ambulance train had been drawn up and sent to all the main companies , all of whom agreed to supply one or more in the event of war , to the Wolverton Works specification . |
| 16 | No , me got to sing |
| 17 | ‘ Jack and me got married very quietly yesterday afternoon . ’ |
| 18 | The Supreme Electoral Tribunal ( TSE ) announced on Nov. 13 that the parties of the eight remaining candidates , all of whom failed to secure a required minimum of 4 per cent of the votes , would lose their legal status . |
| 19 | The men were sullen and never met his eye ; but someone had to organise them , and no-one cared to oppose him . |
| 20 | The council wrote to warn infringing traders some of whom ceased to trade on Sundays as a result of the warnings . |
| 21 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 22 | Last time I went in everyone got called ! |
| 23 | ‘ Nearly everyone got invited . ’ |
| 24 | On Saturday everyone got paid . |
| 25 | The Brigadier appeared and , after much foot stamping and saluting , everyone got lined up and ready to move off , but not before the Brigadier insisted that there should be a bodyguard of four Commandos to protect the Piper . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , nothing got decided , we just provisionally concurred with each other . |
| 27 | The gentlemen in Virginia were in no position to do this ; they had very little money to spend in a gentlemanly way and no particular experience of colonization to give them any other claims to respect and obedience , as nothing got done and about 60 of the 100 initial settlers died in 1607 . |
| 28 | A lot of them failed to reach that desirable goal . |
| 29 | But although they both tried to smile still , neither of them failed to notice the past tense she had used for the word ‘ love ’ . |
| 30 | None of them got icing on today . |