Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One knitter I know who found she 'd created this situation ( inadvertently , she admitted ) solved the problem by knitting epaulettes . |
| 2 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 3 | They found they had to aid each other to achieve coupling , or they would slip apart to achieve nothing . |
| 4 | ' … so that the end of the week he found he 'd lost two stone . |
| 5 | Using the ME-6 through a valve combo I found myself trying to squeeze more tone out of all the distortion settings , something I do n't ever remember trying to do with BOSS 's DS1 compact distortion pedal which , for some reason , I assumed the overdrive on the ME-6 would emulate . |
| 6 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 7 | During a five-day smog in the Ruhr area of West Germany in January 1985 the authorities believed they had achieved overall emission reductions of about 30 per cent , including 14 per cent of sulphur dioxide from power stations and 40–50 per cent of oxides of nitrogen from traffic ( Lubkert , 1989 ) . |
| 8 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 9 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 10 | Bums believed he had answered political demand : ‘ The people are really … satisfied with the new constitution they have gained ’ , he told the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association , adding , ‘ It is no good trying to hurry the Africans . ’ |
| 11 | I really believed he did love this suede . |
| 12 | It seemed he had lost all interest in that too . |
| 13 | ‘ What made you want to go this time , then ? ’ |
| 14 | Mr Goldring claimed she had injected one baby with potassium . |
| 15 | We wish to know only who paid you to try to kill this gentleman . ’ |
| 16 | At night , at certain seasons , it glowed like fire , sometimes it seemed but the portal of a well-lighted hall ; and one old stone-breaker declared he had heard wonderful music issuing therefrom , the like of which he had never heard before ; while on one occasion he had seen troops of gaily-dressed elfins repairing thither , some on foot and some in carriages , and they all went into this mysterious hall . |
| 17 | Transport costs cut into that favourable balance ; the Company reckoned it had to sell Indian cotton textiles at 2½ to 3 times their Indian price to cover costs , and dividends were not normally above 7 or 8 per cent a year . |
| 18 | ‘ It was hell when I discovered you 'd left that morning without saying anything to me , not even an angry goodbye ! |
| 19 | But when they discovered she planned to marry fellow student Willie Armour , they gave the prize to a young man in the year below . |
| 20 | Later we discovered she had hit some obstruction and lost an engine — hence her strange behaviour . |
| 21 | From this , Mrs Lamport discovered she had misread one name and her researches into Mrs Piggott were scrapped while she took up the new challenge in the name of Mrs Pigou , a theatre-goer of French origin . |
| 22 | Anyway , they all sensed they had to make this work . |
| 23 | But when he heard what had happened that morning his face darkened and he turned angrily on Sam . |
| 24 | Despite the problems in local government , the municipal elections and the general elections that preceded them have provided legitimate government both locally and nationally . |
| 25 | I decided I 'd caused enough mayhem for one day . |
| 26 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |
| 27 | Shortly afterwards Nigger decided he had had enough heat for one day . |
| 28 | Chris decided he wanted to marry 32-year-old Heather before he even set eyes on her . |
| 29 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 30 | The independence of the pro-nuclear experts having been challenged , the DUC decided it needed to mobilize outside expertise to back up its position . |