Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , the Zuwaitina canteen milk seemed to everyone concerned an instance of just such a letter-of-the-law possession , The realization that it was an issue of constitutional principle came slowly , when the Jordanian 's lawyer ( Abdulsalam Abdulhadi ) outlined his defence . |
| 2 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 3 | Back at her flat , though , she made herself a cup of tea and was able to give her thoughts free rein — all of them centred on Naylor Massingham . |
| 4 | A passenger sitting next to me flung a coin into the river with great enthusiasm . |
| 5 | Badger gassing , the infallible and humane method of killing them recommended by Lord Zuckerman was stopped on the grounds that it was fallible and inhumane . |
| 6 | Some loved him , others hated him , but everyone respected what little they ever found out about this strange ‘ refusenik ’ who was part of no group or establishment , yet managed to affect so many people 's lives . |
| 7 | Everyone respected him . |
| 8 | To illustrate the way many of them operated he cited the case of a widow who in 1894 borrowed £50 from a London loan bank on the security of her furniture which was valued at £250 . |
| 9 | Take a drive in the country during the hedgehog season and you will see the remains of thousands of them splattered across the roads . |
| 10 | I spent the next few days talking to Cabinet colleagues — all of whom shared my view that the demand was preposterous — and then went to see the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics . |
| 12 | Corbett thought it was mere drunken bravado when one of them lunged across the table and uproar ensued as food , cups and flagons of wine and ale were sent sprawling . |
| 13 | The four of them lived in one house with the father of the two men . |
| 14 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 15 | The huge majority of them lived in rented houses in North Oxford . |
| 16 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 17 | For five months , the two of them lived with her mother in Brighton . |
| 18 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
| 19 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 20 | The four of them lived together and Lee kept her counsel and Hosanna stayed in contact with the spirits and Larry larked around and looked longingly at himself in convenient reflecting surfaces . |
| 21 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 22 | With them lived Miss Hatherby , Lady Wardley 's sister . |
| 23 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 24 | Indeed its members often denied that they belonged to any ‘ group ’ ; they were , they said , primarily friends , with certain family connections , who found some definition ( and their group name ) from the district of London where a number of them lived . |
| 25 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 26 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 27 | They had two rooms in which five of them lived … |
| 28 | James Weenes , in a conversation he had with the wife of a London weaver in September 1690 , expressed his opinion that William was " a Dutch Dogg and an Usurper " , who " like a Villain came and took the Crowne from the head of his Father " , and also that " the nobility was a parcel of Rogues and all of them lived as high as Kings . |
| 29 | This could help to give substance to what is meant by the spiritual dimension , for both of them lived out the kind of character expressed in the middle column of Table 6.1 . |
| 30 | Exhausted and without much hope for the future , she gradually slipped into a permanent state of depression , which made life even more difficult for Josh , although neither of them realized this . |