Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 2 | For some reason I was unable to fathom , all the girls in my class at secondary school headed for Aviemore each weekend with the singular task of losing their virginity . |
| 3 | He described with horror this fish 's ability to paralyse anyone who came near it . |
| 4 | A list of the 14 nuns who demonstrated in March this year gives their ages between 18 and 32 , with an average of 23 . |
| 5 | On the other side of the trade ledger , the booming domestic economy drew in 15% more imports last year than it had done in 1989 . |
| 6 | As one rose in society this problem , paradoxically , became more acute as the possibilities of domestic service or involvement in a family enterprise were reduced Although writing remained an outlet for women 's talents , many women who published were attacked as whores . |
| 7 | I draw the Government 's attention to the Home Office standing conference on crime prevention , chaired by James Morgan , which reported in August this year . |
| 8 | It was not until they moved to Brisbane that life became settled enough for a house to hold much significance . |
| 9 | Total revenues generated from Series 3 sales rose to £18.2m this year from £1.9m last , including £2.5m sales from peripheral products . |
| 10 | Somewhere at the back of her mind , it occurred to Bernice that Bishop was giving her an awful lot of rope . |
| 11 | I recently heard of a family who invited to church some friends who were staying with them for the weekend . |
| 12 | Talking about DOS , although there are no firm figures , it 's also a fair bet that there are still machines running DOS 2.1 and 3.2 , never mind 4.01 and the myriad other flavours DOS has gone through , their owners reasonable happy , but beset by problems that DOS 5.0 sorts out . |
| 13 | The idea here is similar to that used by Tanberg many years before , namely to fill a beaker with water and pass an electric current through it by connecting a battery to two terminals that are dipped into the liquid . |
| 14 | Staff will recall that Penny Carter , a casual part-time member of staff in Foreign Books , appealed for money some time ago to support an evangelising trip to Russia . |
| 15 | UNPROFOR convoys trying to reach other towns came under fire several times ( and on Nov. 6 returned fire ) but on Nov. 19 broke the seven-month siege of Tuzla and on Nov. 28 the eight-month siege of Srebrenica ( the biggest Moslem enclave in eastern Bosnia ) ; both towns were full of refugees . |
| 16 | The goal deluge at St James 's Park brought home the need to counter the effects of the new offside law which came into force that summer and which reduced from three to two the number of players required to be between an opposing attacker and goal when the ball was last played . |
| 17 | Twenty nine per cent were worn below the legal limit of 1.6mm of tread , which came into force this year , and 54pc were below the old limit of 1mm . |
| 18 | MORE than 19 million employees will pay £3 a week less in national insurance contributions and more than two million pensioners will be able to work without reducing their state pension entitlement following changes which came into force this month . |
| 19 | At present the convention , which came into force this month , only provides for an exchange of information , consultation , research and monitoring . |
| 20 | Courses for training both residential and casework staff were organized rapidly so that when the 1948 Children Act came into force some influx of trained staff was anticipated to staff the new children 's departments . |
| 21 | A decree permitting the free formation of parties came into effect that month [ see p. 37402 ] and was followed by the formation of a number of new parties . |
| 22 | The invitation to become deputy Lieutenant came in June this year , he still does n't know why . |
| 23 | Enoch also had an apprentice , George Watson ( 20 ) , who came from Wentworth several miles to the east . |
| 24 | As a roving correspondent he came to Europe that year , and several large conferences were covered by him . |
| 25 | The plaintiff had originally brought the action also against other defendants , seeking relief in the same terms as against the fourth and fifth defendants , but before action came to trial those defendants Norfolk Line Ltd. , Kent Line Ltd. , Transit Freights Ltd. and Britholdings Ltd. , ceased to be parties to the action . |
| 26 | Perhaps since she came to London many men had kissed her . |
| 27 | I mean , I had n't heard anything of you since you came to dinner that evening and … well , went off rather hurriedly . |
| 28 | Herodotus ' History can be seen as a sermon on the text that Spartans and Persians , even in their great period of conflict , gradually came to value each other 's qualities:2 at first ( Hdt. i.153 ) Cyrus the Great scoffs at the Greeks who come together in a market-place to cheat each other ; by the end , the exiled Spartan king Demaratos is shown ( vii.104 ) lecturing a clearly impressed Xerxes on the subject of Spartan deference to law . |
| 29 | Soon he came to value this practice very much . |
| 30 | Montenegro 's young and go-ahead leadership , which came to power this year amid furious popular dissatisfaction with the ‘ old men in grey suits ’ , sponsored the gathering of Nicholas 's surviving relatives — the first ‘ royal reunion ’ organised by a Communist government . |