Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So instead of a slap on the wrist I got promoted to high-flying executive symptoms . |
| 2 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |
| 3 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |
| 4 | ‘ He told me he 'd got in touch again the moment he 'd heard that you 'd decided to soft pedal a bit on work and so could be open to having a boyfriend . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That was why I wanted to speak to you — to find out , if during your time together , she 'd managed to corrupt you . ’ |
| 6 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 7 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 8 | The wife stated that she had succumbed to undue pressure from her husband to sign the documents and that he had misrepresented their effect , in that she had believed that the security was limited to £60,000 and would last for only three weeks . |
| 9 | Since the marks on Mary 's body were not necessarily inconsistent with Thornton 's claim that she had consented to sexual intercourse , and since the times on the morning in question when Thornton was seen walking home to Bromwich suggested he could not have been with her when she met her death , the jury found him not guilty . |
| 10 | The shape of the parcel she put on Michael 's make-up table showed that , for him at least , she had graduated to full-size bottles of champagne . |
| 11 | Bonham Carter said she had resorted to legal action as a last resort . |
| 12 | Often in the past she had listened to other women talking about their young men and she had tried not to dwell on what they said . |
| 13 | It had been far easier to keep it tidy , she thought , in the days when she wore it pinned up ; the style she had taken to suited her better and made her look and feel years younger than she was but it was a terrible nuisance . |
| 14 | Vicky , however ( for in that long night 's talking we had moved to Christian names ) , was not daunted . |
| 15 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 16 | The history , culture and knowledge of these people were denigrated and the contributions they had made to European thought forgotten . |
| 17 | ‘ I want to know what tax concessions the Government believed they had made to British Aerospace . |
| 18 | They would recall how they had reacted to key moments : ‘ It was brilliant . |
| 19 | He even intimated that they had tried to corrupt him by sending female temptresses to seduce him in his Cambridge rooms . |
| 20 | Once or twice he 'd gone to great lengths to deceive me but , more often , he 'd taken little trouble to cover his tracks . |
| 21 | Police charged Lashley after he 'd confessed to fellow inmates in prison while he was serving 18 years for rape . |
| 22 | He 'd returned to flying duties gradually , working as an instructor , not directly involved in any action . |
| 23 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , allegedly found a way to pay for the thousands of hours he spent connected to transatlantic computer networks . |
| 24 | We bought our 1920s terraced house two years ago because of the size and character it offered compared to new houses of a similar price . |
| 25 | More importantly , it put paid to public faith in the League . |
| 26 | But in the madrigal it had led to heightened tone-painting of individual words and phrases , a practice which Zarlino 's own pupil , the Florentine lutenist and singer Vincenzo Galilei ( c. 1520–1591 ) , father of the astronomer , ridiculed in his Dialogo della musica antica e della moderna ( Venice , 1581 ) . |
| 27 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
| 28 | By 1909 it had spread to domestic African pigs . |
| 29 | It had happened to other freelancers , she knew . |
| 30 | By the end of the year he had converted to twin-engined fighters , joining 252 Squadron to fly Blenheim IVFs and Beaufighters . |