Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 2 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
| 3 | There they rested before continuing in a slow trickle of delicious sensation to the neck of her blouse . |
| 4 | When the Japanese returned to investing in the 1960s , they first concentrated on Asian markets that had largely been ignored by earlier investors . |
| 5 | Table 4.6 takes all those who were able to give an answer at both first and second assessments ( third assessment is omitted as numbers able to give an answer on all three occasions were very small ) , and compares the action and control samples on : the number who admitted to worrying in the past month ; said they had been sad or depressed ; said they had often been lonely ; and admitted to being not very or not at all happy ( for analysis of all items in the depression scale used in the interviews see Lindesay & Murphy , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | The first minister he saw after taking in the new facts was Eden , in many ways his favourite at the time . |
| 7 | Galvanised by this exciting if slightly surreal achievement , fax in the US suddenly looked like developing in a new and radical direction : broadcast publishing . |
| 8 | The understanding reached between them and the catholic — nationalist lay leadership resulted in schooling in the future state being allocated to the domain of the church , in exchange for the legitimation of that state by the church leadership . |
| 9 | She was , however , also well-to-do , so she compromised by sitting in the open box next to the screened harem ones . |
| 10 | They sat outside shivering in a big green car for an hour and a half , and they ai n't been back since . |