Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine who accompanied him to a play disputed this , but it was true . |
| 2 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |
| 3 | The future of a derelict quarry has been thrown into doubt because of a planning decision made half a century ago . |
| 4 | The Brixton Gang Rape case produced several complaints to the Press Council which upheld most but not all of the complaints . |
| 5 | Mind you , Go West got all the publicity , but the 100 000 000 mark could have been reached by plenty of contenders in the factory . |
| 6 | ‘ At the same time , the midfield was overrun in the second half and the defence made some horrendous errors . |
| 7 | My first book , When Sixpence Was A Fortune , has reached many corners of the world — a lady told me her sister read some of the poems to an audience of exiled Scots in New Zealand and half the folk there ‘ wiz greetin' ’ ! |
| 8 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 9 | and then time went along until it was September and September the third I was in church when the vicar announced that war has just been declared . |
| 10 | No archbishop equalled that . |
| 11 | The illegal settlement housed some 30,000 displaced people , mainly from the south of the country . |
| 12 | The front-page story lacked most of the details with which Tracey had supplied her , and amounted to little more than a rewritten version of the PA copy she had seen . |
| 13 | At its best , this genre produced some of the extended song-cycles of Pink Floyd but at the other extreme were dozens of overblown ‘ concept albums ’ dealing with elves or spaceships and played on synthesizers and other electronic equipment . |
| 14 | The chairman asked each candidate to give a one sentence reason why people should vote for them . |
| 15 | Exactly same jeans , same jeans , same t-shirt got same colour hair . |
| 16 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 17 | The drug produced little or no Parkinsonism ( tremor ) , acute dystonia ( abnormal face and body movements ) or akathisia ( restlessness ) . |
| 18 | Pot-growing and planting in good soil near sea level made all the difference . |
| 19 | Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) . |
| 20 | Your sister got some did n't she |
| 21 | Nicholson had feared that his hurdling star might be tapped for speed on faster ground than he likes and around this sharpish track , but Mighty Mogul passed this major test with flying colours . |
| 22 | So The Scotsman asked several leading businessmen whether they thought the economy really is on the mend . |
| 23 | The exploration of the American west revealed many such areas , and efforts to preserve them had begun at an early stage . |
| 24 | The duo face competition from at least five bank-led consortia , all vying to operate the network , which should be up and running by 1995 , with the licence award expected this autumn . |
| 25 | Finally — perhaps one should say continuously — there is the comparison between conductors ; and here again , rather surprisingly , Davis 's tried and proved expertise made less impression than the new but not dissimilar touch brought by John Nelson . |
| 26 | Like the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings [ see pp. 38510-11 ] , the Smith case encapsulated many salient features of the debate concerning the nature of sexual violence against women , and the wider contemporary issue of gender relations within US society . |
| 27 | Mr. Gordon never had a look in after Brown Owl met that pilot . |
| 28 | The decline in the birth-rate from the mid-1960s and the developing economic recession made many of these plans redundant , but the counties of Humberside and Avon remain . |
| 29 | Although there had been correspondence with the Beddington and Wallington Council about the low bridge in Manor Road , Wallington , the new routing avoided that too . |
| 30 | The sub-standard systems Earth Central had seen fit to install in the Base made some weird noises at the best of times , but this … . |