Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe JTR helped pick up the pieces or did he watch the poor man 's agony from afar ?
2 Or had he got the old man all wrong ?
3 She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night .
4 Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists .
5 So I suppose it was frustration that led me to break the cardinal rule of any diplomat behind the Iron Curtain in the good old days .
6 It was this kind of evidence that led us to use the social network model in a systematic way : as Ballymacarrett is the most stable and well-established of the communities , we can conclude that the social conditions there are favourable to the emergence of a close-knit network structure of the kind often found in low-status communities ( Young and Wilmott , 1962 ) , and there is ample ethnographic evidence that a close-knit structure of this kind is capable of imposing normative consensus on its members .
7 Mark Roe explains the swing change that helped him win the recent Lancome Trophy .
8 Last year Philips petitioned Brussels for this price rise , without even telling Sony , the Japanese company that helped it develop the digital disc system .
9 As I hastened to go upstairs , I happened to encounter Miss Kenton in the back corridor — the scene , of course , of our last disagreement — and it was perhaps this unhappy coincidence that encouraged her to maintain the childish behaviour she had adopted on that previous occasion .
10 Then , in the last four years of her life , working with a small devoted group of students and collaborators , she succeeded in obtaining spectacular X-ray patterns of the virus that allowed her to determine the precise helical geometry of the protein sub-units , and , above all , to show that the ribonucleic acid ( RNA ) of the virus — the carrier of the genetic information , and hence the infectivity — formed a long single chain embedded deeply within the protein framework .
11 In the hush that followed they heard the back door slam .
12 The brontosaurs had long necks ( lower picture ) that enabled them to reach the high-growing conifers prevalent in the Jurassic .
13 England 's Jamie Spence and David Gilford contrived to lead the British assault on this £62,500 title at the halfway stage , but Montgomerie is now back among the infantry after a second-round 77 that enabled him to beat the halfway cut by just one stroke .
14 Against eight opponents — two of them , Akiko and Carson Bay , are his pacemakers — Arazi should have little trouble in confirming his booking to Louisville if reproducing the brilliance that saw him top the International Classification and America 's Experimental Handicap .
15 He led St Colman 's College to victory over old adversaries St Pat 's , Maghera in the MacRory Cup final with a marvellous individual performance that saw him become the first winner of the Iggy Jones Memorial Trophy .
16 Souness , who won more than 50 caps for Scotland in a playing career that saw him become the driving force in Liverpool 's domination of Europe , was fined £100 by the Scottish FA in January 1989 for comments to a referee after a Premier Division game at Aberdeen .
17 We did n't see the Seychelles scops owl , which is nocturnal and usually only seen if a tape-recording is played at night , nor did we get the little Seychelles white-eye , but I am not concerned .
18 First , in the brief sketch of the early history of radar in the United Kingdom , the earliest work on the detection of aircraft was done not at Bawdsey but at Orford ; Bowen 's middle name was not Gordon , but George ; and as a member of the Airborne Radar Group , I can assure the author that Bowen did not develop airborne radar ‘ single handedly ’ , nor did we develop the plan-position indicator .
19 Run by the parishes or by groups of parishes , workhouses never produced an output which even repaid the purchase of raw materials , nor did they meet the vaunted secondary objective of training the poor in the " habits of industry " .
20 Nor did she see the sudden eruption into the alehouse of two more men .
21 Nor did it remove the old ones .
22 Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something .
23 Nor did it provide the detailed information on local labour markets , particularly at the occupational level , that would have been necessary to make a fuller judgement .
24 Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’
25 The conquest of Egypt and Cyrenaica as far west as Euesperides ( not far from Benghazi ) by the Persian Kambyses did not entail the overthrow of the Battiads , nor did it interrupt the cultural traffic of Dorian Cyrene with Ionian Attica .
26 Nor did he ask the obvious questions which Harry would have found so difficult to answer .
27 ‘ It could have been major much earlier — I had the know-how and had already done the groundwork — but when I was racing there was n't the time , nor did I have the surplus energy to allow the business its head .
28 They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges .
29 Eckert did not know the real Arthur Hardy 's share in these juvenile expeditions , nor had he seen the then unpublished A Sportman 's Tale which amplifies the sustained friendship between these two Battersea Grammar School pupils .
30 Nor had he got the old dig back at Rubislaw .
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