Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left led I would say an uneventful life , but I 've been very happy you know , ups and downs . |
| 2 | ‘ I promised I 'd find the right man to save Swift and then marry him . ’ |
| 3 | To show the general principles involved I will describe the different stages in the making of the copy of the chair illustrated , a Chippendale style fruitwood armchair . |
| 4 | As we approached we could hear the real Chairman of the Ontario Jockey Club welcoming everyone to the adventure and we could see Zak and the other actors waiting for him to finish so that they could get on with the mystery . |
| 5 | ‘ We intended to sponsor the match ball but we found we could afford the whole match . ’ |
| 6 | Earlier in the decade ‘ propaganda ’ among a few chosen workers had been rejected in favour of mass agitation as revolutionaries found they could articulate the detailed grievances of workers in specific factories and print them in agitational leaflets . |
| 7 | The new company promised it would provide a better service to the North , including a news service specifically for South Durham , Teesside and North Yorkshire . |
| 8 | As the core cooled it would form a solid outer shell , and as this shell further cooled through the Curie temperature it could retain today the magnetic field of the remnant liquid iron core within it . |
| 9 | He knew that whoever found it could rule the new world . |
| 10 | The company had special display boxes made which would take the complete range and this was distributed to the homes of leading food writers and journalists . |
| 11 | I believed I should consider the Anglican Church not fully Christian in that it discriminated against women ; though I wanted to worship there . |
| 12 | To do that , he has to get a new constitution adopted which would abolish the existing parliament . |
| 13 | She imagined she could feel the short curly hairs of her silken bush standing on end , and knew her cunt lips would be hanging partially open as if in invitation . |
| 14 | The grant was voted more because Charles ended disputes over land titles running over the previous twenty years than because the West Indians believed they ought to support the English Exchequer , but a permanent colonial contribution to the home government was — at least for England — a new and interesting departure , though one that had no sequel . |
| 15 | The Maronites believed they would control the new state . |
| 16 | A quarter of non-executives believed they should have the last word on mergers ( 10% of chief executives agreed ) and a fifth ( compared with 3% of the bosses ) thought they should approve major borrowings and loans . |
| 17 | Clients who rang one licensed dealer and asked , for example , whether they should sell British Airways shares , assumed they would receive an unbiased opinion . |
| 18 | As the recession deepened [ see below ] , the Hawke government began 1991 some 18 percentage points behind the opposition in opinion polls , raising questions concerning Hawke 's future as leader , particularly as Keating had let it be known at a National Press Club dinner in December that he believed he would make a better Prime Minister than Hawke . |
| 19 | At the time Mick Doyle was coach to a successful Leinster side and he believed he could do a better job than McBride . |
| 20 | A detective-sergeant told Belfast Magistrate 's Court that when Hill was formally charged he replied ‘ no ’ to all four charges , but he said he believed he could connect the accused to the offences . |
| 21 | The detective chief-inspector said he believed he could connect the accused to the charges . |
| 22 | The RUC officer said he believed he could connect the accused with the charges . |
| 23 | In January 1972 an SDP member , one born east of the Oder-Neisse , also defected and the CDU leader , Rainer Barzel , believed he could win a constructive vote of no confidence against Brandt . |
| 24 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 25 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 26 | If we believed it would have an adverse effect on claims , we would discourage people from buying timber-frame . |
| 27 | Keir Hardie favoured the general strike , not as an instrument of class struggle and revolution , but because he believed it could make a valuable contribution to maintaining the peace of bourgeois Europe . |
| 28 | It showed 42 per cent believed it could prove a useful catalyst for improving social conditions with 45 per cent against . |
| 29 | During a match when a player goes down injured he must make the same decision but this time in the thick of the action with the crowd chanting and the referee looking at his watch . |
| 30 | Charles feared for the unity of his dominions under the threat of Protestantism , and it seemed he might call a national synod in Germany which would not only undermine the authority of the papacy , but in the interests of political unity approve theological positions Rome could never accept . |