Example sentences of "[noun prp] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As a former category A authority , Westminster SSD is one of five the DoH categorised as having a high incidence of HIV . |
| 5 | ‘ They have a lovely day for it , ’ Lucy remarked while staring through the kitchen window . |
| 6 | In a solid South Bank Show ( LWT ) on Jimi Hendrix , Eric Clapton swore while describing his feelings when the guitarist died . |
| 7 | He screwed up his face as Dickie did when repulsed . |
| 8 | and the 11.00 on 17th May reported as having only six passengers . |
| 9 | The occultist , thanks to Carl Gustav Jung as reinterpreted by Madam Blavatsky and Theosophy , believe it is the animal and earthly nature of man . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Turner did while houseguesting at Petworth . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | For several years after his first release Bunyan hesitated whether to publish Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 16 | After a more detailed and refined analysis of their results , Brown and Levin concluded as follows : ‘ The evidence clearly suggests , therefore , that the aggregate effect of tax on overtime is small ; it may perhaps add about 1% to the total hours worked , since , on balance , tax has made people work more rather than less overtime . ’ |
| 17 | We can now calculate the mass of AgCl(s) produced as follows : |
| 18 | Coleridge fainted when told at a reception in Malta , and tried to get leave to return . |
| 19 | Unlike one of those characters whom Charles Dickens described as taking ‘ Night Walks ’ in The Uncommercial Traveller , the well-to-do , clever , suitably married man who Should society sit by and allow ‘ characters ’ who chose to be loose with their money to get away with it ? |
| 20 | There were three Gifford Tates recorded as auctioned during the year : ‘ The Swanpool at Falmouth signed and dated 1938 … oil on canvas … £17,550 ; The Loire at Amboise … 1963 … £12,610 ; Helford Village , near Falmouth … 1973 … £21,200 … ’ |
| 21 | That was a lesson Stephen learned while playing in a succession of bands in London during the late '70s and , crucially , when he made his entry into the world of professional recording . |
| 22 | When they had left , Julia wondered whether to say anything or not , but David seemed to have no such inhibitions . |
| 23 | Hazel wondered whether to send one of the rabbits to find out . |
| 24 | Reid J. reasoned as follows . |
| 25 | Selkirk … . 16 Boroughmuir .. 9 EVEN with three replacements permissible it is not always possible to cover the loss of a key player , as Boroughmuir discovered when suffering their third defeat in four years at the hands of Selkirk , this time by a 16-9 margin . |
| 26 | Of course , these single-employer estates are not closed social fields : indeed , social networks extend outwards from the estates to include other colleagues employed by the same company who live elsewhere in Dunrossness , and perhaps also include a few Shetlanders perceived as having an equal social status . |
| 27 | The concluding section of the final report for Ashdown began as follows : |
| 28 | Not once is Jesus recorded as challenging the oppression of women . |
| 29 | Although therefore most advocates of a confessional approach have taken on board quite a lot of the criticism against old-style RE understood as indoctrinating , narrow , academic and meaningless to the vast majority of pupils , they have not gone far enough in meeting certain objections . |
| 30 | The study of hospital patients by Ferguson and MacPheal concluded as follows : ‘ The ex-patients who showed the heaviest mortality at early ages , the strongest tendency to relapse and the poorest record in point of early return to work were the group of unskilled labourers . ’ |