Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still using the flashlight , he perched the case on his desk , took out his key ring , used the two keys which unlocked the specially reinforced bottom right-hand drawer . |
| 2 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 3 | Somehow he made the softly growled question sound incredibly intimate . |
| 4 | On the Hebridena crag of Strone Ulladale , the North Wales based team of Noel Craine and Bob Drury made the long awaited second ascent of The Scoop . |
| 5 | He read the neatly typed letter … |
| 6 | Only in June 1989 , when the highest authority of the land became the newly elected Congress of People 's Deputies of the USSR and when the draft of the new law on the press provided for the abolition of censorship , did Novy Mir publish Medvedev 's story for the benefit of its 1,600,000 subscribers . |
| 7 | The Hacienda was n't the only place , but it became the best known , obviously . |
| 8 | The third was inhabited by small people , half a dozen of them at various times ; of whom Pat Billon , 2-foot 10-inch ( 85-cm ) tall , became the best known and most publicized . |
| 9 | In 1990 Hawke asked the newly created Resources Assessment Commission to adjudicate on the issue ; the report , filed in 1991 , recommended that mining should not be prohibited on environmental grounds , but it pointed out that the Hill was sacred to an Aboriginal group , the Jawoyn people . |
| 10 | The closer he got the more agitated the two girls became , as if he 'd sent a wind on before him which made them flutter . |
| 11 | ( Skokov had worked in the defence industry ; Filatov was seen as reflecting the views of the Supreme Soviet Chair , Ruslan Khasbulatov , who was increasingly antagonistic to the government 's reforms ; and Rutskoi , also critical of the government , had influence among the army and led the newly formed and already influential Civic Union — see p. 38974 . ) |
| 12 | Segun Ogundimu , who had earlier withdrawn from the race , voiced the widely held belief that " the moneybags have hijacked the parties … |
| 13 | And it fortified the widely held misapprehension that an industrial co-operative was of its nature unmanageable . |
| 14 | It bordered the much reduced archbishopric of Ohrid on the south , but Tetovo and Skopje were within its jurisdiction . |
| 15 | In 1875 he entered the newly established University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , where his contemporaries included many other nationally-minded young Welshmen . |
| 16 | The Peacock Throne taken by Nadir Shah at the sack of Delhi in 1739 and later removed to Persia embodied the strongly developed Mogul taste for precious stones . |
| 17 | This year 's keynote speaker is Robert Venturi , who designed the recently opened Seattle Art Museum . |
| 18 | Just about to explode with fury , she suddenly caught the oddly constrained , heavy note of tension in his voice . |
| 19 | Yet we can understand the bewilderment of a passing nurse as she caught the softly spoken words : |
| 20 | Central supervision of the Poor Law operated both through the regional inspectorate who supervised the locally elected administrators , the Boards of Guardians of each Poor Law Union , and submitted annual reports to the LGB , and also through circulars or memoranda to the Boards of Guardians . |
| 21 | It also mentioned the increasingly documented use of slave labour and the routine torture of prisoners and detainees . |
| 22 | But that was no longer true at election time : as the election approached the highly educated became less interested and the less well educated became more interested ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 23 | On the verge of bankruptcy in December 1974 , Leyland approached the recently elected Labour government for assistance . |
| 24 | The talented crew of Voysey , Newton , Baillie Scott , who created the beautifully put together houses of that period , evidently also had the gift of persuasively selling their ideas . |
| 25 | While Beth regarded the beautifully laid table , Cissie stood opposite , her big blue eyes proud and smiling . |
| 26 | There was both a majority and a minority report , and the latter provided a well argued critique of the system . |
| 27 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 28 | It provided a much needed patch of light in an otherwise sombre room lit only by two silk-shaded sidelamps . |
| 29 | In the two ballots held on May 17 it was discovered that some voters had voted twice , and Scalfaro , the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies since April [ see p. 38870 ] , ordered that the voting regulations should immediately be amended ; deputies would be handed a single voting slip as they entered a specially constructed voting booth . |
| 30 | The mass of silver hair framed a perfectly formed face , though the lips seemed thinner , the eyes above the high cheek bones cold and unsmiling . |