Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still early , and the rain I 'd heard forecast the previous night was looking about ready to drop . |
| 2 | A rather tasteless melange of Wellington and Edith Cresson , Nelson and Trafalgar seemed designed to provide the missing edge and allay the self doubts . |
| 3 | The horrible truth was slowly dawning on me : I 'd been so preoccupied with finding things like Wellington boots and torches , not to mention boning up on my Enid Blyton , that I 'd forgotten to read the small print . |
| 4 | The planning principles adopted included keeping the common circulation areas and services central — all-internal kitchens and bathrooms back on to the spinal corridor which occupies the central strip of the former nave space ( Fig 45 ) . |
| 5 | Tonight , with Marlin working until nine and a late dinner planned , she 'd decided to spend the early evening assigning and wrapping the presents she 'd accumulated on her various Fifth Avenue sorties , sweetening her labours with wine and music . |
| 6 | They then seemed destined to suffer the same fate as Jack Handy 's firm : a sharp decline due to financial extravagance and a lack of closely controlled management . |
| 7 | All the books that he 'd bought to fill the stripped pine shelves , and never read . |
| 8 | She 'd had to wait the best part of a month at Holmsly Manor , and then everything had happened at once . |
| 9 | But 5 year old Amy Harding would have found the trauma of having a surgical collar even worse if she 'd had to make the long trip to Gloucester . |
| 10 | It would have been a different story if they 'd had to find the key money for the flat themselves . |
| 11 | If he 'd wanted to lift the whole car , I think he could have . |
| 12 | I 'd hoped to get the poor man writing again . |
| 13 | He 'd tried to sell the Holy Relic , St Vladimir 's Cross . |
| 14 | As soon as she 'd finished breakfast the following morning , Ellie went in search of Mrs McMahon . |
| 15 | She 'd finished tying the orange wrap now and turned to me . |
| 16 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 17 | As in the aftermath of abolition there were signs of a consolidationist ’ outlook at least amongst some of the older generation of reformers and those parliamentarians like Buxton who felt bound to support the legislative compromise solution of 1833 . |
| 18 | At this distance , we may find Balboa 's antics in the surf laughably pretentious ; but at the time the sighting of the Mar del Sur , as he felt compelled to christen the new sea , was a formidable discovery indeed : the implications of its swift and secure passage into the hands of Spain were profound in the extreme . |
| 19 | Last month , after checking with the experts in Moscow , we felt compelled to publish the disappointing news that Ivan the Terrible 's library has not after all been found , whatever Pravda and The Times might say . |
| 20 | Mike Teague felt compelled to punch the wild Tinnock away and was in turn punched . |
| 21 | But de Gaulle never felt compelled to recognize the military hierarchy which existed before 18 June 1940 except when it suited his interests to do so . |
| 22 | And once you got started typing the main part of the letter , you were alright then ? |
| 23 | Nevertheless , members of the government , prominent economists and the official press continued to make statements which appeared designed to prepare the Soviet public for the presentation of drastic proposals for economic reform . |
| 24 | He avoided those parts of Paris where revellers had gathered to celebrate the New Year out of doors with drink and dancing . |
| 25 | It was with Rohde that Nietzsche had intended to spend the forthcoming year in Paris on what might have amounted to a non-classical refresher course . |
| 26 | Pravda reported that most of the ‘ thousands ’ of letters it had received asked the simple question : ‘ When is the war going to end ? ’ |
| 27 | I suggested that the evidence seemed , in the context of language as rescue , to promise a whole new set of preoccupations , to a point where even those undertakings Stephen had given to rework the stiff clay of his race , even these can seem unduly influenced by his still being among them . |
| 28 | In Mexico in the early 1980s these networks had joined to form the National Council of Popular Urban Movements , with their main demand being that every poor family had a right to a piece of land for a dwelling ( Cockroft 1983 ) . |
| 29 | All EC governments had undertaken to give the European Commission , by April 1 , detailed plans for achieving the EC 's target date for stabilising carbon dioxide emissions : by the year 2005 for us , and 2000 for the rest of them . |
| 30 | Baker , whose key tasks in the State Department had included supervising the Middle East peace process , was succeeded in an acting capacity by his deputy , Lawrence Eagleburger . |