Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 I was in , I was in the industry for thirty years before I realized or find out that it 's an Arabian craft .
2 Holme Marsh patchy , a draw below 30 prefered or blank a possibility .
3 And all the rime you knew that you would never take the risk of getting shot which this involved or have the necessary patience to carry it out .
4 It transpired that Hush Puppies were cornmeal fritters , seasoned with eggs and beer , and very tasty .
5 He dismissed that fear instantly , because there was no sign of an army 's passing .
6 Oliver David and others demonstrated that penicillamine , a chelating agent whose main therapeutic action concerns its effect in increasing the loss of lead from the body , produced a curative effect on hyperactivity in children , comparable with that of methlyphenidate .
7 Study 1 demonstrated that risk ratings were positively correlated with the time spent at a junction and the number of vehicles visible at a junction .
8 The February sales demonstrated that Pop Art is the school with the big problem , Lichtenstein , Warhol , Wesselman and others having soared in 1988–90 on Japanese and Swedish buying .
9 In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s .
10 He designed that look for Susan Foreman , and indeed arranged to open his shop specially for me one evening so I could be ready for the production day next morning .
11 I stood in that upper gallery where I first saw Dana and he cast that look upon me which was to make me his slave .
12 Undoubtedly influenced by the theology taught at Paris by the end of the twelfth century , he maintained that unchaste behaviour by the priest did not invalidate his orders .
13 The Unitarian minister and editor Edwin Chapman underlined that desire to overcome separation when in his thanksgiving sermon on Emancipation Day in 1834 he proclaimed that it was the Christian principle evinced by all the sects and parties which had brought on the victory .
14 Woe betide anyone who moved that bar forward without first indenting on stores .
15 He let that rest a while , then , ‘ Where were you ? ’
16 ‘ Do you remember , ’ a typical conversation might begin , ‘ that time back in December of '59 when Waimea was unrideable and Greg Noll caught that wave that must have been thirty-foot plus ? ’
17 Leonard avenged that reverse in New Orleans the following November in the notorious ‘ no mas ’ night of surrender which has haunted the Panamanian all the way to this bonanza .
18 TEENAGERS looking over Queen 's University today found that research there helped put a ferocious roar into Steven Spielberg 's Jurassic Park dinosaurs .
19 He found that support mechanisms and institutional settings are not key factors affecting research advance .
20 ( 1986 ) and Vernon and Fruin ( 1986 ) all found that field social workers , and sometimes residential workers , associated the provision of care for children and young people with failure , and thought that good social work practice meant avoiding the use of care , especially residential care .
21 They found that field social workers were on the whole critical of the residential experience .
22 After I 'd persuaded Hawkbit here to join us , I was just starting to talk to a few more , when I found that Toadflax fellow had followed me down the run .
23 If he loved Emmie , then , his love was only a projection of his need , and even if he found that need curiously weak and shameful , it was common enough .
24 In their own study which actually involved recording EEG/EOG measures of sleeping shiftworkers in their own homes using a portable tape recorder , they also found that sleep during the day was generally shorter than night-time sleep , and more frequently interrupted by awakenings .
25 A study by Peters ( 1988 ) showed a similar result comparing subjects ’ memories for a nurse giving them an inoculation with that for a researcher subsequently encountered , they found that face recognition was impaired for the nurse , another result suggesting memory impairment for an arousing event .
26 Odd-Knut found that record harder to defend , and ultimately gave up trying .
27 In support of this we also found that PGE 2 synthesis was increased in patients with dyspepsia compared with patients without symptoms although this did not reach statistical significance .
28 ‘ And after that , ’ Woolley said , ‘ you will come back here and stop the German air force from examining the hole which their artillery has just blown in the British Line , a hole about the size of Lancashire , and that will be the biggest waste of time of all , because the German Army found that hole an hour ago , and is now galloping through it as fast as its little legs will carry it , heading in the direction of … ’ he snipped the final toe-nail and straightened his leg to study the fault' … us . ’
29 Ben Gunn had told me his boat was hidden near the white rock , and I found that rock farther along the beach .
30 But , as one founder member of the League commented : " We demanded the right to vote but found that vote to be worthless " ( Transito de Ramirez , Los Angeles .
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