Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Mr. Osborne stated that he and Mr. Stewart met as requested by the last meeting and made a selection of Thirty-six Books a list of which he had now pleasure of laying before the Meeting for their approval , but the Meeting found that they would need to curtail the list to Twentythree so as not to exceed the ammount of two pounds . " |
| 2 | From now on it will refer to products validated as working with all Sparc-compliant hardware and software , not just Sun . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nuttall 's happening did n't go as expected , when he became jammed in the bath in which he had placed himself , and Latham fainted while trying to drag him out . |
| 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 | 38 Engineer Regiment from Claro Barracks , Ripon , search a lake where a light aircraft crashed when hit by flying wreckage . |
| 7 | As a former category A authority , Westminster SSD is one of five the DoH categorised as having a high incidence of HIV . |
| 8 | Certain categories of losses may require closer investigation to ensure the loss occurred as stated e.g. spillage of liquid in video recorder , camcorder accidentally left on seat of train , etc . |
| 9 | It was known that many European plants and animals flourished when introduced into areas such as Australia , thus fuelling the imperialist assumption that the products of Europe — including the human products — were destined to rule the world . |
| 10 | ‘ They have a lovely day for it , ’ Lucy remarked while staring through the kitchen window . |
| 11 | Several ex-conduit cars survived as works cars , such as car 8 seen here on New South Promenade c. 1926 . |
| 12 | Of these only the CLC ( Cheshire Lines Extension Railway ) and LYR Derby Road sheds survived as working depots into the 20th Century , although until the 1980's , the WLR shed existed as a workshop by the Windsor Road/Hampton Road footbridge . |
| 13 | In a solid South Bank Show ( LWT ) on Jimi Hendrix , Eric Clapton swore while describing his feelings when the guitarist died . |
| 14 | Bailey 's Jamaican informants did when providing her with examples of JC for her book , Jamaican Creole Syntax ( 1966 ) . |
| 15 | He screwed up his face as Dickie did when repulsed . |
| 16 | They would phone people all over the UK , and read to them verbatim from a script worded as follows : " Hello . |
| 17 | The reasoning behind Cohen 's experiment ran as follows . |
| 18 | For milk the 2 per cent quota cut remained as proposed . |
| 19 | and the 11.00 on 17th May reported as having only six passengers . |
| 20 | The occultist , thanks to Carl Gustav Jung as reinterpreted by Madam Blavatsky and Theosophy , believe it is the animal and earthly nature of man . |
| 21 | The youngster fell while playing on a haystack at his grandmother 's farm . |
| 22 | The meeting was organised by Susan McHugh , a mother-of-two , who was sickened by the Warrington incident in which three-year-old Johnathan Ball died while shopping for a Mother 's Day present . |
| 23 | If the purpose of the march was to force the French to battle it failed ; Charles 's council debated whether to go on the offensive against Gaunt 's army , but in the event their belief in the military superiority of the English was still sufficiently strong to inhibit them from offering an open challenge , and they agreed to pursue the usual defensive tactics . |
| 24 | As the UN Security Council debated whether to intervene , most New Yorkers appeared to be knuckling down to what they do best : driving gratuitously badly and yelling at each other . |
| 25 | Beer consumption fell as compared to the pre-war period , and did not pick up again to 1945 levels until 1968 . |
| 26 | Gay artist Philip Core died whilst fighting in court the Customs seizure of materials he had sent to his London home during a trip to America . |
| 27 | Barman Mike Wheeler slipped whilst attempting to catch the picture , badly slashing his wrist on the broken glass and at the same time dropping his lighted cigarette into a box of Buxtons Tripe and Strawberry Flavoured Crisps . |
| 28 | Turner did while houseguesting at Petworth . |
| 29 | One of the first things Colin and Sue Ross did when taking over Chetcombe was to refurbish the bedrooms in pretty Laura Ashley papers and fabrics , and to put them en suite . |
| 30 | But given that Poidevin turned 33 just days before the World Cup final , will the national selectors prefer to look for a long-term leadership continuity as both Australia and England did when appointing Farr-Jones and Will Carling respectively ? |