Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Nathan said that once he was jailed , members of the Knesset planned to try to call a special session . |
| 2 | cleani , co cos I got caught pulling a little girl 's pigtails . |
| 3 | He studied again the letter he had found in the wallet , then got to work making a careful copy of it . |
| 4 | He swore his family to secrecy and tried to continue living a normal life , making regular stage appearances and several movies . |
| 5 | Considering he was four over par after the first three holes of the New Orleans tournament , Faldo 's 11 under for the remaining 69 on a course he found demanding looks a useful dress rehearsal for the first of the year 's majors . |
| 6 | At this stage I stopped searching to have a little think . |
| 7 | Officers went to Doncaster to interview a lorry driver after he reported having seen a young girl whose appearance was similar to Moira 's , in the company of two other lorry drivers the day after the Lanarkshire schoolgirl disappeared . |
| 8 | All reported having had a wonderful day and causing much comment and amusement wherever they went . |
| 9 | Earlier an El Al spokesman had refused to confirm reports that the aircraft which crashed had suffered a mid-air engine fire in late July . |
| 10 | But not all the people involved have made a conscious choice to create this unit . |
| 11 | She 'd intended to make a sharp retort , but even to her own ears her voice sounded tremulous , full of longing that had n't been satisfied . |
| 12 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
| 13 | After they 'd decided to restore a 200-year-old country cottage on the outskirts of Stroud , Gloucester , housewife Amanda Rawson and her husband scouted around auction rooms looking for furniture to suit it . |
| 14 | Described by Nixon as " a third-rate burglary " , this incident seemed destined to become a mere footnote in history . |
| 15 | While all her instincts balked against becoming too enmeshed with Vitor , she seemed destined to fight a losing battle . |
| 16 | And we used to have a little card , when we went to church we 'd got put a little star , in the squares , and if we did n't go we got a good hiding . |
| 17 | And having l your mother and father left er , your parents had left you with such low money in the early stages you could n't In any case you could n't My friend was a nurse , but you 'd got to have a special background . |
| 18 | Now she 'd got to have a double punishment , still she would soon put it about that Elissia and Daryl had planted the spider in Mary- Lou 's desk . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 20 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 21 | ‘ He made out that he 'd gone to take a nostalgic look at it , and of course he never said he 'd tried to get in , or that he 'd been before … |
| 22 | I think he 'd tried to make a certain birdie but he 'd really come unstuck . |
| 23 | A great white shark , believed to have killed a 31-year-old scuba diver on his honeymoon in Australia , was spotted today . |
| 24 | She wanted to eat her cake and have it , put Georg away in a little box for the future , when she 'd finished having a good time . |
| 25 | Even a week of sitting there , supping in the beer by a kind of osmosis through the atmosphere , and eating solid sandwiches , seemed to have deposited a tiny roll of fat round his waist . |
| 26 | Donaldson side-stepped to avoid two solicitors in conversation , youngish men who seemed to have made a conscious effort to propel themselves into a facsimile of late middle-age . |
| 27 | She seemed to have made a rapid improvement in health since I last saw her . |
| 28 | Generally , these cash buyers seemed to have made a fair assessment of their chances , in that they were unemployed or already had great difficulty matching small incomes to their outgoings . |
| 29 | He seemed to have clinched a seventh victory with his partner , Jean-Louis Schlesser , putting the icing on the cake of their shared world championship . |
| 30 | Fertiliser use is apparently very limited because of cost in spite of such grants and the RP seemed to have to peddle a narrow course between not stimulating significant agricultural change but allowing enough development to support a viable local economy . |