Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-four black militant organisations were subjected to ‘ tax surveillance ’ as part of International Revenue Service ( IRS ) harassment , and FBI agents placed bogus documents into the hands of Panther members which led them to suspect each other of being police informants ( McAdam and Moore , 1989:281 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 3 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 4 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 5 | After five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after the lost election of 1979 , he says he found himself wearing this Shirt of Nessus . |
| 6 | Would n't you agree it 's just about time that somebody helped you to restore some kind of order into your life ? " |
| 7 | When at last she lifted her head , she found herself facing three pairs of curious , slightly embarrassed eyes . |
| 8 | Eminent Victorians and gardeners who visited her by now famous Munstead Wood home found her wearing two pairs of spectacles . |
| 9 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 10 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 11 | The rescue co-ordinators include Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals abandoned plans to use whale song on Sunday , when Mr Goold found he needed stronger amplification of his recordings . |
| 12 | Doctor Tinsley , my old medical man , absolutely forbade me to lift any kind of weight , not so much as a shopping basket . ’ |
| 13 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 14 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 15 | And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling . |
| 16 | Really I suppose much the same way as those parents whom we interviewed who had some sort of educational knowledge or understanding of their own , since we 're both involved in education . |
| 17 | It seemed we needed thirty copies of everything , stamped and signed at least twice . |
| 18 | Before they came we removed all trace of our connection to television , rearranged the office furniture a bit , and hid a camera in a bankers box . |
| 19 | He broke two of my teeth extracting them but he says they 're out clean , when I told him to take another X-ray of it . |
| 20 | God has n't given Paul an injection of energy and told him to face all kinds of circumstances . |
| 21 | However , she realised the wisdom of his words , but hunger and the sound of the lunch bell caused her to discard all thoughts of a long soak , and instead of running a bath she stood beneath the soothing waters of a hot shower . |
| 22 | The court appointed Robert Ramsay , a Western Australian accountant , as trustee , and directed him to recover any assets of the Bond estate . |
| 23 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 24 | He advised us to treat any claims of recovery with caution , and he forecast sluggish demand over the next 18 months . |
| 25 | A breed book advised us to get another Yorkie of the same sex , and so we acquired Ollie as a young puppy . |
| 26 | It just made you ask different sorts of questions . |
| 27 | It was the emergence of the Chinese Lesbian Group which allowed me to start this process of healing and accepting myself . |
| 28 | Recently , Sir John Thomas 's group from the Royal Institution , London , has used an instrumental arrangement at Daresbury that allowed them to capture both types of information on the same sample while it was actually undergoing a chemical change . |
| 29 | The nurses also encouraged him to drink 1 litres of fluid a day and gave him steam inhalations every 4 hours . |
| 30 | This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament . |