Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] accepted " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I began to serve more regularly I became more accepted amongst the older stalwarts of the service , my naval experience and general seamanship picked up on fishing craft and yachts standing me in good stead . |
| 2 | I only wish I 'd never accepted his ring … |
| 3 | One thing you see I had already accepted . |
| 4 | I was comfortable , I had just accepted things how they were . |
| 5 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
| 6 | ‘ And you 'd really accepted that they would marry ? ’ |
| 7 | Pushing aside the imposed conventions , the restraints and inhibitions she 'd always accepted as right and proper , necessary even , she pressed herself against him . |
| 8 | Experience that she had once accepted as belonging only to the dream-world of the cinema screen , really existed , was to be grasped at the cost of a little determination . |
| 9 | She had always accepted the unwritten law of the pop jungle — all publicity is good publicity — and no matter what the excuses , she needed the headlines as much as their writers needed her . |
| 10 | That night , Jessica Roberts found the ritual element she had always accepted in her high home life hard to bear . |
| 11 | Even so , the way they had just accepted their deaths made him feel odd . |
| 12 | Despite some initial uncertainty as to whether these accounts were correct , it became generally accepted ( e.g. by the US and British governments ) that chemical weapons had indeed been used by Iraq on the scale reported . |
| 13 | It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black , although there was little evidence for this belief . |
| 14 | However , through the 1950s and early 1960s it became widely accepted by biologists . |
| 15 | He 'd always accepted that no one did . |
| 16 | He had also accepted the gift of a jet ski from a construction company seeking public works contracts . |
| 17 | The CDU Minister President of Baden-Württemberg , Lothar Späth , resigned in January 1991 because of allegations that he had improperly accepted favours from businessmen [ see p. 37966 ] . |
| 18 | Robbe-Grillet showed himself to be willing to embrace this psychological/subjectivist mode of analysis as readily as he had previously accepted Roland Barthes 's imprimatur as the model chosiste . |
| 19 | He had already accepted the need for reunion of churches in South India and agreed with Archbishop Michael Ramsey 's view that risks should be taken for the sake of Gospel . |
| 20 | He had already accepted ‘ different paths to socialism ’ within the Communist bloc itself when he healed the breach with Tito in 1955 . |
| 21 | He crossed the road , willing himself to suppress the significance of what he had already accepted : there was no turning back . |
| 22 | Having been reassured on this point , he had grudgingly accepted Ellen 's explanation that she had been given leave to visit him to see how he was coping alone , and had promptly put his daughter and her companion to work . |
| 23 | For the first time , too , he writes with some bitterness about the customs of William I and Lanfranc which he had hitherto accepted without demur : |
| 24 | One month before the overdose , she told him she wanted to end the relationship and he had reluctantly accepted this . |
| 25 | In fifty-odd years of high regard for Englishwomen and awe of the fortitude and grace he saw in them , he had never accepted their defiling hats . |
| 26 | Then he remembered with a sinking heart that he had rashly accepted an invitation to spent the holiday with a colleague ant his wife who had , as they put it , ‘ taken pity on your loneliness at this so-called festive season ’ . |
| 27 | He wrote to Law to protest when he was offered only an under secretaryship. pointing out that he had only accepted the Chairmanship because of the offer of a cabinet post . |
| 28 | Asked why he had initially accepted the Sarajevo agreement , he replied that he had been isolated and that the EC mediators had insisted on acceptance as a precondition for diplomatic recognition , which was his government 's " main objective " in the short term . |
| 29 | He had graciously accepted an invitation to a drum at Lady Angela 's luxurious house in Belgravia , nodding affably to Lovat as he acknowledged the bows and curtsies of his future subjects . |
| 30 | Campaign , the advertising industry trade paper , noted that he had happily accepted the deletion of the suffix ‘ man ’ from his title of Chairman of News on Sunday Publishing plc . |