Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [verb] and [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty per cent is insignificant , the sixty per cent was still owned by the man and his company , and somebody in the organisation , I know this sounds fairly tall , had said go and get this company to do this , because it works for us , Commercial Union . |
| 2 | There were many times when I wondered why I had agreed to research and write this book — it was anything but straightforward — more like doing a jig-saw puzzle without seeing the picture . |
| 3 | She could see him as a prototype for the border entrepreneur trapped here in the decline and fall of this precarious city , the market-stallholder , the baths attendant , the potter , the vegetable grower , any one of the native opportunists who had rallied to serve and exploit this hothouse community of time-expired settlers and pay-happy leave-men . |
| 4 | She had finished knitting and sewing all its little garments , had arranged its fine hair , and was now busily engaged in slipping them on . |
| 5 | The convoy originally had planned to split and take some of the aid to Gorazde , another government enclave , but after being blocked by a crater in a mined road to Gorazde , all trucks headed down the twisting , snow-covered route that UN officials feared was also mined and finally arrived in Zepa to a tumultuous welcome . |