Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They would phone people all over the UK , and read to them verbatim from a script worded as follows : " Hello . |
| 3 | The reasoning behind Cohen 's experiment ran as follows . |
| 4 | For milk the 2 per cent quota cut remained as proposed . |
| 5 | The youngster fell while playing on a haystack at his grandmother 's farm . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Beer consumption fell as compared to the pre-war period , and did not pick up again to 1945 levels until 1968 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The caption ran as follows : |
| 11 | There is an elegant staircase with a gate to keep the dogs downstairs and a page 's seat at the top of the stairs , where the boy sat until called to his duties . |
| 12 | The Committee considered whether to increase the grant to Farmers World Network , but decided to allocate the full balance of this year 's budget to this post . |
| 13 | Such was the speed that Dancing Brave showed when winning the General Accident Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket that some felt that the Derby — half a mile longer than the Guineas — might not be his race , but he took his chance at Epsom and started 2–1 favourite . |
| 14 | An unexpected failure occurred when communicating with LIFESPAN . |
| 15 | An unexpected failure occurred when communicating with LIFESPAN . |
| 16 | The first real scare came while flying over the Mediterranean . |
| 17 | On Jan. 24 , 1990 , a man carrying a bomb died while attempting to blow up the Istanbul stock exchange . |
| 18 | ‘ The Yugoslav Army has never fired on the people , ’ Col Budimir Mladenovic said when confronted by an angry Muslim villager who held in his hands the remains of an Army issue mortar shell . |
| 19 | Many famed scholars and sorcerers gathered at Hoeth and such an exchange of knowledge occurred as has not been seen before or since . |
| 20 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 the Crown Prosecution Service replied as follows : |
| 21 | The magistrate decided whether to try a case summarily or to set in motion the process of committing it to a superior court . |
| 22 | Whole trees in motion ; inconvenience felt when walking against the wind . |
| 23 | While the Morton serialisation ran as expected — with the headline Saint Diana — the other article indicated that Charles was a husband deeply wounded by his wife . |
| 24 | Even with delays while the Office of Fair Trading considered whether to refer these takeovers to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( it did not in the end ) the whole process had taken only until the spring of 1991 . |
| 25 | When the summit began as planned on March 10 , King Hassan protested in an open letter to the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi . |
| 26 | ‘ The trouble began when grandather Garland died about thirty years ago — in my father 's time — and left almost everything to Edwin . |
| 27 | A WOMAN died while swimming with Fungy the TV dolphin off the West Coast of Ireland yesterday . |
| 28 | He said the head of rescue services in each resort chose whether to call on help from Chambery . |
| 29 | He said the head of rescue services in each resort chose whether to call on further help from Chambery . |
| 30 | could I also remark to erm Councillor made as regards to the er any progress to er , to eliminate these er primary bends , which one of the most dangerous sets of road |