Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 2 | She assumed that , having had time to think things over , he was going to come back with the decision to tell Marc everything that had led up to this crazy engagement of theirs . |
| 3 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 4 | It only reminded her of how she and Trish had hooted with laughter when they 'd seen the engraved invitations that had gone out in three languages for this evening 's showing . |
| 5 | It also stands accused of murdering the much-loved area around the old Bull Ring market that had grown up in piecemeal fashion over the 800 years since Birmingham was granted a market charter in 1150 . |
| 6 | She seemed to be following instincts that had welled up from some deep , secret place that nothing — and no one — before had ever touched . |
| 7 | In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’ |
| 8 | Right off the bat Dan agreed , detailing this as the one criticism that had come back from American TriAxis users . |
| 9 | And got split up into different little workshops and dwellings . |
| 10 | But he was a bit of a womaniser and got mixed up in some scandal ; I never knew the whole story . |
| 11 | To finance the French war effort in 1949 had cost them , in US terms , $500 m. — which was greater than the estimated French budgetary deficit for the year — and had eaten up over two-thirds of the annual total of US aid to France . |
| 12 | Confidence in the government was further lowered by public accusations by Merbah 's predecessor as Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi ( who resigned from the FLN central committee on Oct. 16 ) , that President Chadli Bendjedid had known about a US$26,000,000 corruption scandal involving state contracts , which was currently subject to a parliamentary inquiry , and had covered up for senior ministers involved . |
| 13 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |