Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barwick , 40 , of Cornforth Avenue , Middlesbrough , admitted poaching last October . |
| 2 | The official receiver has been called into the firm , which ceased trading last June . |
| 3 | The only feature of the city shared by rich and poor alike was the atmosphere , and as time went on the manufacturers stopped living next to their mills , as Robert Thornton does , and retreated further and further into the suburbs . |
| 4 | The German economy stopped growing last summer and is now in deep recession , with industrial output in the year to March down more than 10% . |
| 5 | The beloved cross-terrier , found sitting next to his master 's dead body on Saturday afternoon in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , was judged to be too ill by animal experts . |
| 6 | The G7 nations began pressing last year for international laws aimed at protecting the world 's forests , but North and South have remained divided over should foot the bill . |
| 7 | Peter de Savary 's crew discovered climbing last year , although it appears he off-loaded the place on another property speculator in the summer without bothering to tell anyone ! |
| 8 | Thomas , from Blackhall , County Durham , and 15-year-old Joanne Lackenby began dating last Christmas and saw each until May . |
| 9 | The survey found that half of the UK 's knacker businesses have gone bankrupt since they began charging last July . |
| 10 | MORE than 500 , UNISON members began voting last week to decide on industrial action over the government 's 1 . |
| 11 | With OEM deals already struck at Hewlett-Packard Co and Silicon Graphics Inc , Natick , Massachusetts-based Atria Software Inc , developer of ClearCase , a Unix software configuration management system which began shipping last month , has raised $4.1m in a second round of venture funding : two of the firms , Marix Partners and Sigma Partners were original investors in Atria back in 1990 , they 're joined by Highland Capital Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures . |
| 12 | Developers kits began shipping last November ( UX No 362 ) when HP promised to have the end-user version ready by June . |
| 13 | The announcement of the measures comes more than three months after publication of the Holman report , ordered following last August 's event , when several racing boats drove at high speed in fog-shrouded Torbay — two hitting a holiday beach . |
| 14 | Homebase avoided joining last year 's discount war initiated by Texas and B & Q. Instead we responded with a strong special offer programme supported by more regular national newspaper advertising and more aggressive point of sale material . |
| 15 | fight to the last man They started firing first . |
| 16 | Er the r the steering committee consisted of eight members , one form each constituency , and we started meeting last November . |
| 17 | ‘ I started boxing last November and I really like it . |
| 18 | He sold it in 1989 to John Kluge , the richest man in the US , whose wife fancied living next to Balmoral . |
| 19 | See you when you started crying last night there was no need for that Matt , nobody can what do you want me to do please you when you kick , that was three things you kicked over in the space of minutes |
| 20 | More detailed recommendations included giving first priority in language teaching to English . |
| 21 | They started fighting last time Star Eye were here . ’ |
| 22 | But er when I as soon as I was fourteen I walked to and started working next day . |
| 23 | We went steaming first to work up an appetite . |
| 24 | She was in a lift and the lift would n't stop at the right floor but kept going first up and then down , past the numbers she wanted . |
| 25 | no , we 're just talking about when I did last week remember when I went teaching last week and you went to Ian 's house did n't you ? |
| 26 | When , inevitably , we were asked to do it again , we altered it to make it the third article after the four-legged item and kept varying first and third . |
| 27 | The couple went missing last month . |
| 28 | He made telling first half stops and saw his forwards come close to securing three points . |
| 29 | The hay you left lying last night will spoil when the rain comes . ’ |
| 30 | Then he slid off her and they remained lying next to each other , his arm still under her neck . |