Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Everyone agreed that investiture by lay rulers conferred no spiritual power : it did no more than put a prelate in possession of the rights , lands , and secular dignities of his new office .
2 Everyone agreed that tinnitus was worse when they were tired , particularly when they were mentally tired rather than physically tired .
3 No-one made any block-bookings at all , ’ she said .
4 She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ?
5 He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him .
6 Nothing made any sense . ’
7 What was there to be so glad about when nothing made any difference ?
8 nothing got some tissues
9 Nearly everyone made some kind of a contribution .
10 Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money .
11 Had any of them made any approaches to her ?
12 None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture .
13 ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded .
14 They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation .
15 Lots of them tried several times before succeeding .
16 Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial .
17 They needed each other , them complemented each other , they were bound together in a joint world order that defined the period 1948–1989 .
18 My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids .
19 Potential side effects were noted by 47 ( 2.2% ) patients , some of whom reported several symptoms concurrently .
20 Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all .
21 So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist .
22 But , you see , I asked that question , the final one , the only one that mattered , a long time after .
23 I asked that question , it has not been answered .
24 I asked many Goans if they disliked the freakish visitors , and their verdicts were almost unanimous .
25 I asked both bodies to get together if they needed further information from British Coal they should secure it .
26 SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up .
27 After the third call Morris said to Bob , ‘ I asked some people to step round . ’
28 It turned out , when I asked another student about her , that she spent most of her time organizing the Drama Society and almost never came into the department .
29 I asked another teacher , ‘ Well , what do you think ? ’ she said ‘ You were wrong to shout back at her full stop !
30 I I know the question about rent was mentioned but , I 'm just talking generally now , I asked this question to another housing association how do you justify rents of sixty pounds and above for accommodation and social housing ?
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