Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 2 | Howard Kendall has fined him and said that it 's all over . |
| 3 | But Basil got summonsed for wounding — an inspector in a tram-car had seen it and went and gave evidence against him . |
| 4 | One of the crucial changes brought about by Mrs Thatcher is the attitude of those who have made it and believe that others can do likewise , or , if they fail to do so , are judged as having not really tried . |
| 5 | Local elections confirmed the trend and their historian has interpreted them as showing that " by 1913 , the Conservatives had rarely been stronger in the Councils of the land , or indeed more poised for success in the forthcoming general election " . |
| 6 | A single order may not be sufficient for this latter aim , and it is advisable to go back to the shelves some months after the new stock has reached them and decide whether a further order is necessary . |
| 7 | On 4 August 1989 solicitors acting on behalf of the relatives wrote to the coroner repeating the facts as I have summarised them and requesting that an inquest be held to inquire whether or not the death had been caused or aggravated by failures of the emergency services to respond to the calls and to attend in proper time . |
| 8 | He 'd thought that when Nisodemus had summoned him and asked if there was any paint in the quarry , only now the quarry was being called the New Store . |
| 9 | But then when Narouz had himself raised it and indicated that he had changed his mind , it had suddenly come to seem a good idea . |
| 10 | Her son , who had scarcely known her but felt that his own throne was conceivably under threat so long as she lived , made no great show of grief when the news was brought to him . |
| 11 | If you could go to her , genuinely sorry for the hurt you had caused her and knowing that you had come to terms with your conflict about the difference in your ages , then maybe she might be willing to consider starting again . |
| 12 | She has made much of statements made by Neville , and has quoted him as saying that ‘ the weapons of revolution are obscenity , blasphemy and drugs ’ and as further saying during the OZ trial that the whole point of pornography was to promote promiscuity . |
| 13 | He said he knew the tablets would not have harmed him and admitted that he had taken them to make his wife see how much he needed her . |