Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the war over and M. Guérigny back from the front , the brother and sister became intoxicated with the experience of freedom . |
| 2 | The Victorian block of flats where Christine Mills lived had been painted a dark green a decade ago and the wood of the frames now showed through in parts , black and rotten . |
| 3 | Within the past year a small fire in a large Victorian house only fifty yards from my workplace watching helplessly while the building became engulfed before the brigade arrived from Leicester and Wigstone , five and six miles distance distant . |
| 4 | Ben got busted so Pru took the kids to Glasgow to live with her Mum . |
| 5 | More recently , at a Roman Catholic retreat , where we were asked to use no book other than the Bible , the personal daily direction given became a memorable means of the Holy Spirit 's teaching , healing , and guiding . |
| 6 | The crucial events around which the case centred occurred at a dinner party given by the General , when Aitken and some others were present . |
| 7 | However , the recent study by PA Management Consultants Ltd found that in themselves the analyses of the cases examined had not produced hard evidence to support the hypothesis that co-operatives would find it very difficult to compete in capital-intensive production : |
| 8 | Taylor was at pains to stress that Robson 's decision to retire had nothing to do with pique . |
| 9 | It was an unhappy end to a great career , but Jackie 's decision to retire had been taken long before : in April . |
| 10 | The presence of Egyptian and Jordanian delegations hinted at a possible rift in the ranks of the " front-line " Arab states ; according to some commentators the Jordanian decision to attend had greatly displeased the Syrians . |
| 11 | Many farms had old , labour-intensive buildings but the lack of money to invest had prevented improvement . |
| 12 | Administration of bFGF given did not significantly affect the lesion area or the gastric blood flow in rats treated with aspirin . |
| 13 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 14 | The enactment of the hunt and the practice of imitative magic to ensure success at the kill became fossilized as a widespread and regular feature of the seasonal festivities . |
| 15 | Yeah , I went out with Shelley , with Warren a few times read read yeah ? |
| 16 | The hon. Gentleman will know , or at least his advisers will know , that regulation 72 was originally introduced in April 1987 to provide for the unlimited payment of arrears of benefits in cases where an error in the determination of entitlement to benefit had been made by an official of the Department . |
| 17 | The legal entitlement to benefit came to be governed by secret codes circulated within the Ministry and designed to ensure uniformity of decision making by benefit officers , who like their counterparts under the national insurance scheme , made decisions on claims to benefit . |
| 18 | The blow to the Education Bill proposals for all schools to become grant maintained came in a survey for BBC Wales . |
| 19 | And if it be thought that Mr Hunte retains a soft spot for Pakistan ever since he and Garry Sobers had a stand of 446 against them at Sabina Park 34 years ago , we have ascertained that he made clear to the 1992 management that any further offence would be met with punishment noticeably more severe . |
| 20 | And last night his colleagues and family had no doubt that a decision to prosecute drove Mr Stewart to his death . |
| 21 | Investigators from the Mine Safety and Health Administration ( MSHA ) report that in many cases dust had been vacuumed or blown out of sampling devices prior to being sent to inspectors . |
| 22 | Supermarkets , including Tesco 's store in Banbury and the Co-Op in Kidlington , were also found to be selling ham , which experts say had a high risk of food poisoning . |
| 23 | The sky was soon dark and the sound of heavy bombs exploding died away , to be replaced by shells passing over the orchard from the British guns down by the river Orne . |
| 24 | The matter would then have been dealt with in the ordinary way , after all counsel involved had been consulted . |
| 25 | In the RAF 's first attack on the runway at Port Stanley , carried out by a Vulcan V-bomber which flew from Ascension Island , only one of the 21 bombs dropped hit the runway . |
| 26 | Membership of the National Deaf Club tended to attract those deaf people of a certain social standing , and included S. Bright Lucas ( who was the first President ) , wealthy businessman A.J. Wilson , the artist Thomas Davidson , the editor of the British Deaf Times , Joseph Hepworth , explorer and photographer Henry Newton-Lowry , and the type of activities pursued tended to reflect the membership : chess , table-cricket , tennis , badminton . |
| 27 | Decimalisation meant that a major revision of the payroll system was needed and the limited time scales involved resulted in the acquisition and implementation of a payroll package called " COMPAY " . |
| 28 | Britain 's willingness to compromise had been far less marked . |
| 29 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 30 | Pong met Saw Maung , who was reported to have reiterated Myanma 's readiness to increase co-operation with Thailand on trade , fishing and tourism . |