Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pers pn] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Dugan has claimed that she never had sex with clients .
2 It was claimed that he repeatedly called for the ‘ total westernisation of China ’ and incited people to ‘ change the true colour of the party ’ ( China Now , Winter 1986/87 : 6 ) .
3 Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself .
4 It is reported that he never performed an operation without washing his hands .
5 It was quite still for the breeze had dropped and he vaguely registered that the women seemed to have gone .
6 and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was .
7 All that might be allowed for in this context was that individual cases might be considered if I particularly pressed " , and it has to be added that this was in full accordance with the AFHQ instruction of 7 March which stated that " it is not the policy of she British Government to encourage any of those persons who become a British responsibility to put forward claims that they are NOT Soviet Citizens " .
8 A DOWNS Syndrome sufferer was attacked when he accidentally bumped into a man , a court heard .
9 I 've realised that you neither required nor merited consideration .
10 Mrs Frizzell eased herself — it could not be said that she exactly pushed — through the crowd so that she was next to Mrs Hnatiuk , while Maxie stopped to talk to clients .
11 The Dounreay nuclear plant , the largest nearby industrial commercial operation , has said that it only discharged 1.8 kilograms of cadmium over 10 months last year .
12 It has to be said that he also invoked this oath against his barons when it suited him to do so , as in 1301 : it served against the laity no less than against the clergy .
13 I I have feelings about it , I I I mean , my , generally my experience I do n't know I have n't discussed with other members but er , when I the panel that I er , allocated to erm and I was telephoned , could a make , and certain dates were made and I finally made one then I was told , oh no that 's not convenient !
14 times for auctioning though was er when shops went bankrupt , er especially chocolate shops , cos then we had a good time after he 'd done because we usually got loads of chocolate which was a luxury . .
15 It was said before she fully realised what she had wished for him .
16 Selkirk stopped speaking and Corbett saw de Craon flinch at what the Scotsman had said as he quickly assessed the alternatives open to him .
17 For the salvation offered by God to men and women … took on , from the Old Testament Prophets onwards , the privileged form of a nuptial mystery : for God the Chosen People is seen as his ardently loved spouse …
18 At San Vicente Hospital , when I went to give birth , I met a young woman who had been coerced and she only had three children .
19 We felt that really needed to be considerably punchier to attract attention and we would have thought that it really needed to be ‘ New Launch gets Canbord council market a tough new policy ’ .
20 There was uproar when the Navy discovered the mines and Stirling had to own up , only to be told that they often dropped small depth charges at random into the harbour and if they saw anything suspicious sprayed the area with machine guns .
21 It was told that it consistently ridiculed ordinary people .
22 And at a time when Furtwängler was out of fashion in Britain and America it was not unusual to be told that he rarely managed to play two successive bars in the same tempo .
23 Robyn has been told that he once had a beard , and he is forever fingering his chin as if he missed it .
24 I am told that she always looked attractive and very well turned out even at this particular time …
25 It was alleged that they unlawfully arrested Llewellyn Lovelace in Milton Keynes six years ago , and then altered his statement to make it look as if he had come forward voluntarily .
26 The SFO had alleged that they secretly arranged for their own companies to buy shares , thereby raising the take-up level announced to other investors .
27 She stroked the lapel of one of John 's old suits , a Prince of Wales check that he had bought before they even met .
28 Her mother had died when she most needed help in her development , with all the problems of adolescence .
29 Such ‘ feminising ’ factors have been foiled by two other inventions , that of separate sexes ( many animals and some plants have abandoned hermaphroditism , perhaps because half the hermaphrodites were feminised and it therefore paid the remainder to turn into pure males ) and genetic sex determination .
30 We were also convinced that unless we could get the politicians and so called ‘ medical experts ’ to start exercising their minds , then the people in communities like ours would continue to die before their time and our children would be damaged before they even got a chance to live .
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