Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had we but known that money was so scarce , RW&P would willingly have sent round the collection box to gather money to compensate the RFU in return for keeping the England jersey white ( or , for that matter , the WRU for keeping the Welsh jersey red ) . |
| 2 | The other children were clean and decently fed , but this one had a smell of the gutters about him and looked like he could do with some good food to fatten him up . |
| 3 | I 'd teach him if wanted but er |
| 4 | Her wide interests , her humanity and her warm personality made her as loved as she was respected . |
| 5 | The Control of Pollution Act 1974 provides that where any damage is caused by poisonous , noxious or polluting waste which has been deposited on land , any person who deposited it or caused or knowingly permitted it to be deposited is civilly liable for the damage , provided that his act constituted an offence under section 3(3) or section 18(2) of the Act . |
| 6 | However to judge by the veteran abolitionist Lushington 's intervention in the 1831 debate the powerful demand for immediatism from abolitionists in the country was still somewhat muffled in parliament ; he approved of it if understood as , measures immediately brought in now and adopted which might lead to the gradual extinction of slavery' ; Buxton had avoided completely talking of immediate emancipation . |
| 7 | Adrian Gowers , 28 , of the Isle of Sheppey , Kent , is accused of burglary , taking a mechanical digger without the owner 's consent , driving it while disqualified and driving without insurance . |
| 8 | As one of my colleagues put it when asked if he had enjoyed the workshop , ‘ I was too busy working out whether , and how , I could apply the concepts in my own school . ’ |
| 9 | But its conception of the international economy is different from that of world-system theories because it sees it as created and conditioned by the rivalry between different nation-states . |
| 10 | We should take it as settled that drivers are liable only for such damage as has been explicitly stipulated in clear statutes , so that drivers and potential victims can insure and otherwise plan their affairs accordingly . |
| 11 | Draw a rectangle around it as shown and cut out all three triangles , ( numbered 1,2 , and 3 on the diagram ) . |
| 12 | But you can take it as read that you have the contract . ’ |
| 13 | Let us take it as read that Hawkwind started quite a few trends in their time . |
| 14 | The press took it as read that Kylie was indeed an anorexic — again something that she has always denied . |
| 15 | I could fill a book with the other similar comments which were written on the questionnaires but I think we can take it as read that the trials proved beyond doubt that if you followed the diet moderately strictly you could definitely lose inches from parts usually untouched by normal dieting methods . |
| 16 | Mitzi , who was Brown Owl 's assistant , told them when asked that there was no limit to the number of bridesmaids a bride could have , but that two or three was most usual , for various reasons that she explained . |
| 17 | He admired some of them as determined but ordinary folk . |
| 18 | well item one is the minutes of the A G M nineteen ninety two if there are any queries , may I have them now or I will take them as read and sign them . |