Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie and Fred worked hard all day , aided by the vociferous Bessie Chandler , whose tales about the trials and tribulations of her friends in the buildings where she lived became painful ongoing sagas . |
| 2 | The time they shared became special now , where before they had been free and easy . |
| 3 | And we got payed seven and sixpence for each body we carried , you see ? |
| 4 | He became devoted most of all to Mary Evans , the eldest daughter , and believed that he loved her . |
| 5 | A budgie found found this morning in the Bobsmill area it 's yellow and green , two nine three eight two five two nine three eight two five can you call after four o'clock and er last one a cat found in Standhill Road in Carlton found last night it 's black and white and it 's got a pink collar on , five two six six seven one five two six six seven one . |
| 6 | Unless they 've sent for two lots and used used this address for one . |
| 7 | The men and women whom they encountered showed neither hostility towards their new enemies nor enthusiasm for a great patriotic war : |
| 8 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 9 | Then someone dragged me along to learn meditation , which I found did most of the things advertised for it — you feel more focused and it reduces the interminable mental chatter that stops you getting to sleep at night . |
| 10 | A Christian bishop was bound to look in the Bible for precedents for his mode of action ; and what he found had many remarkable analogies with his own predicament . |
| 11 | Most of the key actors mentioned had close connections with Dicey , as a pupil or colleague , and to some extent they formed a fairly distinctive group of conservative libertarians . |
| 12 | The building he proposed had two internal courts , and externally three stories of superimposed Corinthian columns , an arcaded first floor , a central porte-cochère and , as The Builder pointed out , detailed elements derived from Vignola . |
| 13 | Yet the schools in which this coming together of parent and teacher in the service of children occurred had immense benefits . |
| 14 | One of the music schools which Mr Dorman visited had 2,100 pupils . |
| 15 | Apart from sexual partners and children born to infected mothers , not one person out of more than 12,000 people studied became infected . |
| 16 | The dishes he filled seemed indistinguishable to my eye from run-of-the-mill cottage pie except they were rather blacker round the edges than is normal , and they were accompanied by the garnish of a quarter of a raw tomato , two cucumber slices , a sprinkling of cress ( or maybe lawn clippings ) , and a tired , pre-chewed lettuce leaf without which no British pub meal is complete these days . |
| 17 | in the second half Wimbledon threatened to run away with it but Judge saw them off more than once and then United came good again with a late charge … |
| 18 | The equaliser Darlington 's endeavour deserved came two minutes before the break . |
| 19 | Indeed certain specimens of O. abyssicola studied showed intermediate characters between the two . |
| 20 | The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address . |
| 21 | Freud had always supposed that the various forms of innate behaviour he explored had biological bases to them . |
| 22 | But those who obeyed had little enough to focus their blinkered eyes upon by 1929 . |
| 23 | If only I 'd had three more years . |
| 24 | The patients studied had active ulcerative colitis affecting at least the left side of the colon . |
| 25 | The local authorities surveyed had outstanding debt in excess of £100 million ( as a proxy for capital intensity ) and the health authorities were those that had ( then ) recently undertaken major capital projects . |
| 26 | The situation appears to be similar in UK public libraries , where a survey by Capital planning Information found that one-third of 32 library authorities surveyed had some form of selection policy . |
| 27 | Mark Stein then replaced Martin Foyle and United had two good chances ; in seventieth minute , a great move involving Magilton and Simpson , set up Durning . |
| 28 | United had one more chance six minutes before the end when Martin Foyle did well to turn on the ball ; in the edge of the penalty area he hit a shot low and hard towards the corner of the net but it just drifted wide of the far post and United 's chance had gone . |
| 29 | in division three Hereford are at home to Northampton … the last time these two met it was a demolition derby United had four sent-off … it finished one all on goals lets hope its 11 all on players tomorrow |
| 30 | them and they came had this little pancakes were dishes of er there was a dish of the sauce that |