Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 2 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 3 | The monopolistic merchants found that they had insufficient capital to advance the loans required ; there was much evasion of the monopolies ; and the export trade itself was disrupted by the crown 's impressment of merchant shipping for war , and its political pressures on Flanders . |
| 4 | ‘ When I got to my door I found that I had this cement cock in my pocket . |
| 5 | They then got his notes out and found that he had malignant hypertension — just high blood pressure . |
| 6 | The mocking-birds were probably his best clue , since here he found that he had clear evidence showing that the populations of different islands were quite distinct . |
| 7 | John Gadsby who travelled across France in 1855 found that he needed two greatcoats and a large travelling wrapper to keep himself warm even though the carriage was supplied with hot footwarmers which were renewed at certain stops along the route . |
| 8 | Sally found that she had good abilities in this area . |
| 9 | She took out her wallet and found that she had six pounds and ten shillings which she placed on the chair by his bed ; ‘ Will that be enough to be going on with ? ’ she asked . |
| 10 | Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning . |
| 11 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 12 | Harvard 's experiments on bird tumours , for example , showed that viral insertion increased the expression of the myc gene — and Croce and his collaborators reported that they found increased expression of myc in Burkin 's lymphomas ( Science , vol 21 8 , p 983 ) . |
| 13 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 14 | Now he rose and they faced each other across the table . |
| 15 | She stopped and they faced each other . |
| 16 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 17 | Two days of warm spring weather opened the flowers of forsythia bushes in the neglected garden behind Merrill 's flat , and she hummed as she cut long stems of the starry yellow blossom . |
| 18 | Differently again , the overture to A Month in the Country conveys romantic nostalgia with deeper hints of passion which Lanchbery created when he arranged little-known music by Chopin . |
| 19 | The Minister does not know the figures , but I shall tell him what farmers in Orkney found when they made simple inquiries . |
| 20 | He excelled when he caught fine rays of sunlight dappling the surface of a lake . |
| 21 | Faldo conceded the French and Belgian Opens when victory seemed a formality and he bristled when I questioned these fallibilities during his march to triumph in the European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 22 | Surkov 's hand trembled as he lit another cigarette . |
| 23 | Trade unionists knew that they could only achieve a limited level of their ambitions through industrial means and they realized that they needed working class MPs to support them in parliament . |
| 24 | When , in 1884 , G. T. Clark [ q.v. ] published his Mediaeval Military Architecture in England , she realized that it contained false assumptions about the origins of the various mounds or mottes scattered over the British Isles . |
| 25 | She realized that she had some confusions of her own that needed sorting out . |
| 26 | Then came the moment when she finally realized that she needed professional help . |
| 27 | ‘ I presumed that you had another candidate — or should I say victim ? — lined up . ’ |
| 28 | Mrs Teresa Leinen , 25 , may be parted from Sean , three , and Ashley , one , within five days after the High Court ruled that she broke international laws . |
| 29 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
| 30 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |