Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Allen Abramson , a London University anthropologist who has studied initiation rituals , said that most societies used them to mark important developments in a person 's life , and that they often involved pain or privation . |
| 2 | Whipping round , he found himself facing four figures in black military style combat gear and carrying guns and flashlights . |
| 3 | Carter and Cureton 's entries on " style " seemed to match the first brief and I found they complemented each other in interesting ways . |
| 4 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 5 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 6 | The third qualifying round altered the seeding in such a way that arguably the best sides in the tournament , Namibia and Zimbabwe , found themselves playing each other in the quarter-finals . |
| 7 | ‘ Next thing we were playing support on a Mary Black tour and from doing folk club gigs for maybe 100 customers I suddenly found myself doing 20 nights in a row in front of 2,000 people or more . ’ |
| 8 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 9 | I noticed nothing to suggest this insight in Frontenac 's version of the story . |
| 10 | I told you to put some orange in there . |
| 11 | This contrasts sadly with the experience of an elderly woman I met who suffered three bereavements in quick succession . |
| 12 | These have been included in the FRED because respondents stated they found similar material in the discussion paper helpful . |
| 13 | When he was shadow Secretary of State and I challenged him to have this debate in the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs , he said , " We soon will . " |
| 14 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 15 | I also heard He spent some time in charge of North East Counties side Tadcaster Albion but did n't last long . |
| 16 | Graciously the principal did apologise for the ferocity of his attack but that encounter prompted me to produce this leaflet in defence of the Word of God and the integrity of some very important person who are in effect made out to be liars if the theory of evolution is true . |
| 17 | Barrett , who has recently scored two impressive first round stoppage victories in Italy , decided he needs more experience in the welterweight division and feels he made a mistake in challenging Manning Galloway too soon for the WBO welterweight crown last July . |
| 18 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 19 | This controversy and the importance of intestinal carnitine handling prompted us to investigate carnitine concentrations in malabsorption . |
| 20 | As the denomination most solidly based in the countryside , they also realized they had little choice in the thousands of new streets with their red and yellow brick terraces that were covering England 's acres . |
| 21 | It led him to spend endless hours in the House of Commons , far more than any Prime Minister for many years before , far more than any of his successors . |
| 22 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 23 | Some feeling like that which had attacked Jim Nesbitt last year and made him marry that girl in Durham , who , to his mind , had nothing going for her . |
| 24 | When the water boiled she made more tea in the silver pot , refilled the milk jug , found clean cups and a plateful of almond biscuits , and carried the tray back to the terrace . |
| 25 | It was that same song from the Dietrich film she had watched at Rocamar , and as she sang she found new depths in the words . |
| 26 | It hurt him to see such changes in her . |
| 27 | The Japanese seizure of Manchuria in 1931 went relatively unchallenged by the Western powers as an intra-Asian affair , but as Japanese ambitions grew they aroused growing concern in nations further afield , notably the European powers with territories in Southeast Asia , and the US with its Pacific interests . |
| 28 | You know , I always thought they put anti-bonk pills in the coffee . |
| 29 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 30 | In 1990 Chevallier won a Northern Arts travel award which enabled her to spend six weeks in New York . |