Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 2 | Young Jack thought he was hard , thought that having a few blondes and getting a few legs broken made you a man , but underneath it all he was soft , a little boy . |
| 3 | Richard Gutch , chief executive of the charity Arthritis Care , said : ‘ What I 've heard astonishes me . |
| 4 | Posh Porky knew exactly when and where she was born and never stopped reminding us all that she was nearly a year younger than anyone else in the class . |
| 5 | While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two . |
| 6 | On board training is given to enable us to promote staff who show ability and aptitude . |
| 7 | In a country of 17 million people , around one million actually travelled to see them as they journeyed from city to city . |
| 8 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 9 | He had not seen her all day and badly wanted to say goodbye , but there was no sign of her in the crowd that had gathered to see them off . |
| 10 | ‘ It is important that they do not allow the depressing things they have heard to affect them ; that they do not take them home with them . ’ |
| 11 | Even if the government backs legislation ( and even more so when it does not and the Houses find themselves confronted by a Private Member 's Bill ) no Bill will ever be passed which offends against the deeply held beliefs of Members , unless amended to accommodate them . |
| 12 | many and I 've stopped eating them at Christmas when I brought them and I started eating them again . |
| 13 | The tiny Regency houses had no doubt been listed to spare them the attentions of developers ; from the state of the paving stones and the grass-studded cracks in the roadway , it seemed that the town council too had passed them by . |
| 14 | It was this , his wife had said , which he had intended to gas her with , using the fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 15 | This payroll management service has been developed to enable us to convert salaries , wages and pensions from gross to net pay in accordance with statutory requirements . |
| 16 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 17 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 18 | Much of the machinery is in working order and I was so fascinated to see it actually in operation that I was late getting back to the bus ; driver sitting with engine running , and the eyes of every accusing fellow passenger upon me . |
| 19 | ‘ Because I never saw him before Monday and I have n't stopped seeing him since . |
| 20 | Humphreys 's behaviour , concedes Calvert-Smith , ‘ obviously presented a most unpleasant spectacle ’ and no one has suggested that McLean had intended to kill him . |
| 21 | The Supreme Court in Toronto backed his claim that he had not intended to kill her . |
| 22 | Wightman told police he hit his girlfriend 's head against the bathroom door or wall , but said he had not intended to kill her . |
| 23 | If the kidnappers had intended to kill them both , the cellar would have been the place . |
| 24 | He was certain the brutal oriental intended to kill them no matter what assurances he might give to the contrary , because of the trouble each had caused him . |
| 25 | Safety from Angel One , whom he felt sure had intended to kill them , had n't it been for Grant 's timely arrival . |
| 26 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 27 | There not offices best calculated to enable us to perform effectively . |
| 28 | Acorn says that major shareholder Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is wholly supportive of its strategy and the plans developed to implement it . |
| 29 | He said , as all drivers say , that when he ceased to enjoy racing , he would stop ; he did not say that he had stopped enjoying it , it was simply evident . |
| 30 | Mr Reynolds seldom succeeds in women : Mr Ramsay is formed to paint them ’ . |