Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 2 | Fairbank 's contribution to handwriting made him known to a larger public . |
| 3 | The Archdeacon realised he had been carried away , cleared his throat and gulped the last of the sherry . |
| 4 | So in the end , even the chairman agreed I was right . |
| 5 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 6 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 7 | There was also substantial cross-group agreement on the selection of this feature , with most groups arguing that the 'summarising " nature of this sentence made it a strong candidate for an opening to the story . |
| 8 | The pope 's ardent desire for clarification and decision made it possible for judges to be used who were not always the bishops , in close contact with Rome , but abbots and other ecclesiastical officials . |
| 9 | The Bournemouth decision made it clear that the Unity Campaign 's success had been more apparent than real . |
| 10 | With the decision made she felt a kind of temporary peace . |
| 11 | One particular day , having struggled through an ugly crowd of protesters to the safety of the Welsh Office , the Prince announced he was going back out to talk to them . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe it was n't you who rode the winner but — yes , that 's it , the winner rode you . ’ |
| 13 | This partially revived me after the £1,314 price tag made me feel faint . |
| 14 | The price tag made her wince . |
| 15 | That was impossible , because the heat and the champagne made her feel dizzy , till she felt she could hardly concentrate . |
| 16 | She was tired , emotionally and physically tired , and the champagne made her cease to worry about whether she was right to allow the Burgermeister to cosset her with flowers and champagne . |
| 17 | The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA . |
| 18 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 19 | Notice that at so young an age he knew that ‘ the Rev. ’ was better than ‘ Rev. ’ But the book was not orthodox in divinity because father locked it up and would not let Michael 's sister read it . |
| 20 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 21 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 22 | Perhaps the presence of her young mistress made her desist from talk ; Emily would address her in high tones as a servant , no more , although the woman was her only companion . |
| 23 | Even old Stalin Nicholson might be exhorting Gary this very minute , over egg and chips , recalling his days as fastest hod-carrier in the high-rise development before the lumbago got him . |
| 24 | Howe 's reputation as an animal painter was made when Sir John Sinclair of the Board of Agriculture commissioned him to draw details of various breeds of cattle , and he went on to paint hundreds more pictures , mostly of horses . |
| 25 | Brenda ( seventeen , Jamaican parents ) commented that in Jamaica she had been teased as a " foreigner " because her Creole was not up to scratch : Oh , they call you all — " English gyal , come here English gyal ! " yeh , my sister 'ad it all , my sister ai n't English , my sister 's Jamaican , because she come over here when she was young , when she went back over there they were callin' her English gyal , the lot [ ] but when she , she ai n't forget nothin' , she can still speak it so she open her mouth and they say sorry [ ri ] ! |
| 26 | On this plate was depicted a map of the heavens , and holes along the line of the ecliptic made it possible for a representation of the sun to be moved at intervals of a day or two in imitation of its annual motion . |
| 27 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 28 | I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema . |
| 29 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 30 | Mickie then and there decided that if the opportunity arose he would team up with Raoul on future helicopter design . |