Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Item — somehow de Craon was involved in all this and had bribed the unwitting Father Reynard . |
| 2 | Eagle Trust claimed that WS had originally believed that the equipment was for petrochemical use , but in March 1990 the management had become suspicious and had informed the British authorities . |
| 3 | 's headed er ball down , just inside the penalty area on the right hand side was picked up by , skipped past a defender , used the ball well , picked out , the Pisa defence was n't in position , was and a r really fierce shot into the roof of the net and did n't have a chance to save at all and had got the important early breakthrough . |
| 4 | The once dominant Lotus 72 had lost its edge ; Chapman was developing the 77 and had abandoned the 76 . |
| 5 | A substitute had been required , therefore , in haste — and Daniel , who had never reached France or Italy after all but had spent the last two years at the London office of the Chartist Northern Star , had seemed as good a choice as any . |
| 6 | Sixteen teachers commented on this absurd situation , six more than had mentioned the social context of the previous question . |
| 7 | It must have seemed a pardonable exaggeration in the political rhetoric of a young man who had joined the British Fascisti Ltd on 6 December 1923 and had seen the brave hopes of the movement degenerate into a crackpot collection of factions and rivalry by the 1930s . |
| 8 | During the study period six patients with pain and ultrasound scans strongly suggestive of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis were not assessed by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ; each had a Karnofsky score of less than 40 and had entered the terminal phase of AIDS ( multiple unresponsive opportunistic infections , very low CD4 counts , profound weight loss ) , and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was either contraindicated on respiratory grounds or inappropriate ethically . |
| 9 | He also enjoyed staunch support from both Salisbury ( 12 ) , who stayed 82 minutes to help add 73 for the seventh wicket and Tufnell , who was 10 not out at the close and had become the fourth England player in the match to better his previous best Test score . |