Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd helped set up a new research wing , which was due to be officially opened in a fortnight 's time . |
| 2 | I 'd helped to start up a mixed-sex Lancaster Gay Switchboard and learned a lot from radical faggots . |
| 3 | did not accept that the Vice-Chancellor had intended to lay down a rigid limitation on the exercise of the court 's discretion . |
| 4 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 5 | The session was short , the smile fading from the face of the accused as Mrs Balanchine described in detail how the car had come storming around a blind corner and swung in close to the wall where they were waiting to cross . |
| 6 | Successive government reports since the late 1930s had recommended setting up a national film bank , but it was only in the wake of the 1948 production crisis that the government seriously contemplated making funds available to the industry . |
| 7 | ( B ) The conference had decided to set up a national assembly composed of 123 members based on the number of constituencies existing before 1969 with a speaker and two deputy speakers . |
| 8 | On May 9 Albie Sachs , a civil rights lawyer and member of the ANC legal and constitutional affairs committee ( who returned to South Africa on May 4 after 24 years in exile — see also p. 36073 ) , revealed that he had helped to draw up a 1985 code of conduct outlawing torture , but acknowledged that detention camps still existed . |
| 9 | Balfourier 's ‘ Iron ’ XX Corps had now reached the front in its entirety ; two further corps were on their way , and a third standing by ; Haig , with rather ill grace , had agreed to take over a further sector of the line from the French , so an adequate supply of reinforcements seemed assured . |
| 10 | Pitt had refused to hold back a single soldier intended for service overseas or to recall any vessels serving on distant stations , but he ordered a further 34 sail of the line to be commissioned and , during that dangerous summer , increased the number of seamen serving in home waters from 18,000 to 35,000 . |
| 11 | Gen. Asparukhov alleged that Mishev had attempted to set up a secret arms deal with Macedonia . |
| 12 | But at the word ‘ walk ’ Sally had started putting up a tremendous performance , and the party broke up . |
| 13 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 14 | The court found that Papandreou 's government had failed to carry out a 1987 EC request that investigations be made into ITCO 's activities . |