Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly , they were able to offset totally any child-minding costs they incurred while going out to work . |
| 2 | and finally spare a thought for the Oxford boat crew they sank while competing in Turkey … choppy conditions on the Bosphorus were to blaim |
| 3 | Even more valuable has been the friendship and help she found while attending a young women 's support group . |
| 4 | FIREFIGHTERS yesterday freed a four-year-old who trapped his thumb in the bracket of a car wing mirror he found while playing . |
| 5 | Ironically , bearing in mind the casualty statistics of rear gunners , ‘ Jacko ’ was the sole survivor of the crew — perhaps because the aircraft crashed while flying too low over enemy territory . |
| 6 | On June 7 , 1989 , a DC-8 aircraft belonging to Surinam Airways crashed while trying to land at Zanderij airport . |
| 7 | A similar problem was also found with sentence 13 , whereas sentence 12 crashed while printing the bracketed parses . |
| 8 | A Russian AN-8 transport plane crashed while landing at Chita airport , east of Lake Baikal in eastern Russia , on Oct. 30 , killing at least 14 people . |
| 9 | On 8 January 1989 , at Kegworth , 47 people were killed when a British Midland 737 crashed while attempting an emergency landing . |
| 10 | Graeme Thompson crashed while lying fourth two laps from the finish in the 250cc race won by Nigel Bosworth . |
| 11 | The badly damaged aircraft limped back to Sicily where it crashed whilst attempting to land and was destroyed . |
| 12 | Somehow she doubted whether sharing with Sandra the fact that she already did regret the day she 'd first laid eyes on Matthew would be helpful to anyone . |
| 13 | Another of Joni 's masterpieces , the ‘ Madonna and Child ’ ( fig.4 ) in the style of Matteo di Giovanni , which Perkins also listed as belonging to Lehman , is a similar case . |
| 14 | From now on it will refer to products validated as working with all Sparc-compliant hardware and software , not just Sun . |
| 15 | Jamie Blandford admitted things were different for him than for his predecessors , most of whom he described as living in blissful ignorance of the world . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State therefore made some changes which he described as clarifying and amplifying the Council 's recommendations . |
| 17 | Unlike one of those characters whom Charles Dickens described as taking ‘ Night Walks ’ in The Uncommercial Traveller , the well-to-do , clever , suitably married man who Should society sit by and allow ‘ characters ’ who chose to be loose with their money to get away with it ? |
| 18 | Although we shall appeal frequently , in the course of this book , to the insights of sentence grammarians , including those working within a generative framework , we shall avoid as far as possible the methodology which depends on what Lyons ( I968 ) described as regularised , standardised and decontextualised data . |
| 19 | The group had earlier threatened to attack French , United States and United Kingdom targets in the city in revenge for what they described as planned Western aggression against Iraq . |
| 20 | He presided over far-reaching changes , including the abolition of censorship , in a programme which he described as aiming for " socialism with a human face " and which came to be known as the " Prague Spring " . |
| 21 | Apricot really stole a march on the competition last September with a couple of new PCs it described as optimized for workgroup operation . |
| 22 | But a plea for formalised plea bargaining by Bar Council chairman , was strongly repudiated by his successor , , a strong civil rights activist , who told the Criminal Law Solicitors Association conference , ‘ I can think of no greater avenue for injustice than plea bargaining ’ , which he described as mixing ‘ quantum with liability ’ . |
| 23 | Like Schleiermacher , Coleridge rejected any attempt to prove the truth of religion by appeal to rational , philosophical proofs : this seemed to him completely to miss the character of faith , which he described as having to do , not with theory , but with life . |
| 24 | It referred disparagingly to ’ comprehensive conformity ’ and bemoaned the departure of grammar schools , which it described as having taught rigorously , maintained discipline and specialised in the production of excellence . |
| 25 | Mr Justice Harman refused to grant an injunction in favour of the plaintiff and strongly criticized the use of an American contract which he described as having odd and inept phrasing . |
| 26 | It described as exaggerated the FMLN 's claim that it controlled 5,000 sq km of territory — a quarter of the country . |
| 27 | All the above types of violation of a person 's autonomy involve what Kant described as treating the person as a means to someone else 's end , and not as an end in themselves . |
| 28 | Wölflinn wrote Renaissance and Baroque in 1888 , which in the preface he described as follows : |
| 29 | Protein sequences were obtained from proteolytic digests of GGF-I , GGF-II and GGF-III , purified as described ( A.D.J.G. et al. , manuscripts in preparation ) . |
| 30 | Human TBP , used for affinity-chromatography , was expressed in E.coli and purified as described ( 12 ) . |