Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes you 're right I 'd forgotten that boat trip . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry I had to throw old Rex to the wolves back there , ’ he said , without a trace of conviction . |
| 3 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 4 | Foreign investment in India remained at a low level during the 1980s when compared with similar international investment elsewhere in south and south-east Asia , despite the introduction of liberalization measures in 1985-86 which had boosted industrial investment and output . |
| 5 | After this she began to hear strange sounds and melodies ‘ that she could not well hear what a man said to her at that time , unless he spoke the louder . |
| 6 | The announcement that the society lacked the cash to fund its operating costs surprised few who had followed that institution 's relatively quiet descent into insolvency . |
| 7 | Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones . |
| 8 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |
| 9 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 10 | Later this evening , we 've a true story of an American ex-con who decided to fight organised crime by himself . |
| 11 | For this we needed to win quick ball in the loose where Tordo was excellent . |
| 12 | This one seemed to drop that side of the table , too . |
| 13 | The downside is a familiar one : notchy and sticky gearchange , mushy brake pedal , rough and vocal engine ( this one had done 4000 miles yet would still not rev to the red line ) , wind noise at speed and , of course , the seats . |
| 14 | In Section 3.7 we managed to get simple expressions for the magnetic field far away from the ring and in the vicinity of the axis . |
| 15 | To do this he had bought some loudspeakers from the government and the sparks had damaged them . |
| 16 | In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction . |
| 17 | At 30 he had amassed enough knowledge of transcendental experience systems to make him a contender for the job of running what was regarded by many as one of Europe 's best Transcendental Operations Modules . |
| 18 | In 1905 , at age 48 , he walked 200 yards , ran 200 yards , cycled 200 yards , rowed 200 yards and swam 200 yards , all in under a total of eight minutes , and in 1903 he had swum five miles in the Thames ( two of them against the tide ) . |
| 19 | This was a distinct motivation from that which had offered free places in the old endowed grammar schools and which had allowed a small measure of upward mobility for the bright working-class child . |
| 20 | Among their little exercises in search of conclusions was that which involved asking 55 schoolchildren to list expressions meaning stupid person . |
| 21 | And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’ |
| 22 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 23 | It was intended that there should be assessment of the mother , but by August 1991 she had missed three assessment appointments . |
| 24 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 25 | At the age of twenty-eight she had awakened one morning to the realisation , clear as dawn , that to hope for things did not necessarily bring them about , that there was no earthly reason why she should be happy , healthy and husbanded . |
| 26 | In 1991 we decided to end this duopoly . |
| 27 | During 1991 they had recruited 109 graduates and were expecting to recruit a similar number in 1992 . |
| 28 | In December 1991 he refused to sign those parts of the founding charter of the Commonwealth of Independent States that guarantee respect for human rights . |
| 29 | By 1660 he had completed rabbinical studies and by his own account sought the ‘ wisdom of medicine ’ at the University of Leiden . |
| 30 | Out of that she had to pay all expenses , including animal feed and coal , which left around five pounds a month for food . |