Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 2 | In another case , the Court of Appeal held that a prosecution had been properly discontinued when a defendant had taken out a private prosecution for perjury against a witness who had given evidence against him at committal proceedings . |
| 3 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 4 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 5 | Labour had taken on a flagging government in the midst of the longest recession since the last world war . |
| 6 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 7 | Full of new hope that maybe our rethink might be working he struck into what appeared a solid fish , although this was a little misleading as the cat had picked up a little weed and once freed she quickly surrendered . |
| 8 | Colorado-based Miniscribe filed for bankruptcy protection in January 1990 when it emerged that its senior management had carried out a massive fraud . |
| 9 | The museum had taken over the northern end of the building but the main hall of what had been Damiani 's factory , with its vaulted roof and tunnels , was in semi-derelict condition , leased on occasion to a firm of Iranian-born Jews who dealt in Persian art . |
| 10 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |
| 11 | But our judge might be able to guarantee this by making plain that he intends the new rule to govern all future cases , and that the exception for Elmer was made possible only by the fact that no judge had laid down a similar rule before Elmer committed his crime . |
| 12 | Every few blocks , a building or two had been gutted , walls standing , roofs collapsed , as if random artillery shelling had taken out the commercial heart of the city , leaving a few lucky businesses to struggle on until the next round . |
| 13 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 14 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 15 | ‘ The team had put on a marvellous display out in Georgia and I thought we 'd get a few more than 6,000 . |
| 16 | Each period had thrown up a different set of relationships , different influences and different pressures on newspapers . |
| 17 | Already the forest had taken on a menacing gloom . |
| 18 | His eyes had immediately darkened , and his entire body had taken on an aggressive stance . |
| 19 | By the mid-1950s the Cold War had taken on an inexorable logic in Europe , which made divisions hard to break down . |
| 20 | Jabril , it said , had allegedly had Iranian financial backing , and the Lockerbie attack was thus interpreted as a revenge attack after the US navy had shot down an Iranian airliner in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] . |
| 21 | The name had taken on an ironic , almost malicious air . |
| 22 | The last one 's meat had run out the previous day and if the new one 's meat was not salted within a day or two , there would be no pork or bacon for at least a month . |
| 23 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 24 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |
| 25 | This should do much to ease the burden the arms race had put on the Soviet economy . |
| 26 | This squad also exploded a store of mines which the Germans had not laid behind the beach — an extraordinary piece of dilatoriness for them , although they were probably complacent , in part at least , because their propaganda had written off the British . |
| 27 | Months of raw sewage had passed down the scarred pavement outside and a thin layer of grass — a bright , sickly , unreal green — had crept over the doorstep and into the building . |
| 28 | The Politis editor , Mr Jean-Paul Besset , said his magazine had carried out a long investigation into dangerous waste dumping , including the discovery in 1983 of barrels of earth impregnated with dioxin from Seveso that were illegally shipped to northern France by an independent contractor . |
| 29 | Easy Rider made its name in the middle of this melée and specifically at a time when the whole counter-culture movement had taken on an explosive , manic air . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the paper had taken on a new cub reporter in the person of Matthew Smith , a tall gangling young man who was to go far in his chosen field . |