Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This caused me to regrade double jacquard .
2 This caused him to invent Ambivalent Music , which you ca n't quite tell if you are listening to or not ( see Ambulance house music … )
3 When this happened she had one option ; there was only one other perch available : my fist .
4 This showed it to have formal negotiating agreements at ten of the principal ports of England , Scotland and Wales and at three in Ireland , and to have ad hoc local wage agreements at substantially all the rest .
5 This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers .
6 This enabled them to handle global constraints on the sentence .
7 Mr Fallon said this did nothing to help those people with mobility difficulties who wanted to park in the afternoon .
8 1 Did you enjoy reading more , or less ? 2 Did you read different kinds of book as you got older ? 3 Did you read comics ? 4 Did you read information books ? 5 Did you have reading tests ? 6 Did you have any favourite books or authors ? 7 Did you have any hates or fears to do with reading ?
9 In that year he began campaigning against the brutal system of forced labour employed by Leopold II , king of the Belgians , as absolute personal ruler of the Congo Free State , even though this forced him to leave Elder Dempster , where he had become head of the Congo department .
10 1 Did you enjoy reading more , or less ? 2 Did you read different kinds of book as you got older ? 3 Did you read comics ? 4 Did you read information books ? 5 Did you have reading tests ? 6 Did you have any favourite books or authors ? 7 Did you have any hates or fears to do with reading ?
11 How much did it cost last time ?
12 these , you know these national thing , all that they 're interested in from that manager of that shop is how much did you sell that week
13 How much had they loved each other ?
14 This would have been so easy had they dug narrow trenches , the practice of the past , as this method can produce only scraps of unrelated evidence .
15 His lectures would have been more lucrative had they attracted more women .
16 Sister Susan McGuiness F.C.J. Sister Madeleine F.C.J. and Bishop Kevin O'Brien all helped me to answer this question .
17 The multiple alignments whose fragments are shown in Figs. 3 and 4 allowed us to obtain optimized calculations of the similarity existing among the yeast , Drosophila , vaccinia virus and ASFV RNA polymerase subunits .
18 Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ?
19 Page 27 Buoyant Borland : Borland International said it expected second quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product .
20 Right come on Chris let's go , in fact run upstairs and put that on your bed quickly , come on , double away better put that woman 's gloves somewhere safe did you take that change that was lying there , well Matt I 'll need some for his dinner , oh , no alright Laura
21 That enabled it to boost pre-tax profits to March 31 to £101.4m from £65.7m in the previous 12 months .
22 The young veteran Ronald Ridenhour , whose conscience first led him to question former comrades , was racked by horror at discovering the crimes his friends had committed but felt no fear of official reprisal when he wrote to 30 Congressmen .
23 The wealth and power of the Victorian cities and the civic pride expressed in their impressive town halls , first enabled them to pioneer public services ; later it permitted them to build up teams of technical staff and take on a range of tasks of increasing complexity and sensitivity .
24 Little did they know that French , together with hard-working ARFU executive Bob Fordham , had been working for over 12 hours attempting to salvage the Wallaby tour after pre-tour conditions , such as the non-playing of national anthems , were inexplicably ignored at Ellis Park the previous day when South Africa celebrated its return to international rugby against the All Blacks .
25 She parked outside the high brick wall rather than driving on to the forecourt , and as if he sensed her reluctance to enter the house again he did n't attempt to invite her inside — but neither did he make any attempt to get out of the car , and they sat in silence in the light from an overhead street-lamp .
26 Thus to those conservatives who , arguing against the ordination of women , contend that Jesus ordained no ‘ priestesses ’ , it must be said that neither did he ordain any priests !
27 Did , did you at the time or in the thirties did you have any involvement with the Unemployment Claims Union or anything like that ?
28 However , economy being of prime importance , he included , he said , nothing inessential to the art of gardening that might increase the size and price ( eighteen shillings ) , but neither had he omitted any advice which might be deemed useful to the profession , ‘ so that upon the whole the work is rendered as complete a system of practical gardening as present knowledge of vegetation can supply ’ .
29 The Pope 's visit to Central America in March 1983 did nothing to alter this situation .
30 all in one and I think that 's horrible Did you see that car
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