Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	On his death ten years later , he was succeeded as leader of the community by one of his companions , Abu Bakr , who later became seen as the first of a line of caliphs ( khulafa in Arabic ) .
2	The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist .
3	She 'd danced with a five of Palernians , all of them at once .
4	In successive seasons , he took United from the Third to the Second and into the First Division .
5	The Russians had withdrawn from the southern to the northern side of the harbour , but survived there until the end of the war .
6	That situation was to change when USAAC General Hap Arnold decided , based upon information he had received from the British about a new aircraft power source , to get the Air Corps involved in jets .
7	It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life .
8	Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses .
9	She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most .
10	The town had suffered from the worst of industrial enterprise and was now the recipient of a major twenty-million-pound clean-up .
11	Both the Board of Education and Ministry of Health were acutely sensitive on this issue , given the controversy that had raged in the 1930s over the issue of child malnutrition and ill health .
12	It had happened at the rampart by Dr Dunstaple 's house where Cutter had just shot a sepoy the moment before and seen him fall ; at the same instant he had caught sight of another sepoy levelling his musket and had said to the Sikh beside him : " See that man aiming at me , take him down . "
13	In fact Nathaniel had grown into a dissolute of considerable proportions by the time Dowd entered his employ , and could not have cared less what kind of creature Dowd was as long as he procured the right kind of company .
14	There were instances where young families had moved from an urban to a rural life and now wanted nothing else than a farming career .
15	To press his case , de Gaulle again employed the tactics of withdrawal and threatened resignation that he had used with the British in 1941 and 1942 .
16	Earlier in the year Jordan had called for the homeless to be set to work on a state-run farm .
17	The upper level of exposure for workers had reduced to a seventh of its level in the 1930s , for example .
18	Solutions had ranged from the ingenious to the bizarre .
19	The stranger had arrived in the dead of night , a sick man unable to walk unaided and noisily man-handled through the darkened house by several other men .
20	Physics realised 67 per cent ; History a promising 77 per cent ; and Mathematics was strongest of all , with an average of 77 per cent over three subjects : algebra I and II at 72 per cent and 80 per cent , geometry at 86 per cent and trigonometry at 70 per cent ; ( he admitted to us that he had opted for the latter at school , because it enabled him to evade Latin ! ) .
21	Jessica had dickered about wearing jeans — doing a Karen , she had mocked herself — but had settled for a button-through with a longish skirt to it .
22	Indeed , the year before , he had spoken at the Moot of his hope , according to the minutes , " for occupation in some form of national service without that official status which might shut his mouth , and that he would be free to take part in any work for the future that was possible .
23	In the December 1989 elections the UDI , the party closest to Pinochet , had emerged as the weaker of the two right-wing opposition parties , winning 11 seats in the House of Deputies and five in the Senate .
24	Educational Services Incorporated had emerged in the 1950's as a leading agent for curricular reform in the United States , and its development owed much to the concern and dynamism of some of the country 's foremost scientists and mathematicians .
25	All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists .
26	Mr Goddard said the ESC had apologised to the Civic for causing any inconvenience .
27	They had gone into the largest of the rock shelters , one which he himself used when he felt very bold and did not mind looking out over the vacancy of the Waste .
28	In all but seven of 38 WFS countries located in three major developing regions and having the requisite statistics , the mortality of infants whose mothers had migrated from a rural to an urban place was higher than of those whose mothers continued to reside in rural areas of that country , while statistics for 26 out of 36 WFS developing countries suggest that movement of a woman from an urban to a rural place increases the health hazards and reduces the survival chances of infants .
29	During the course of the 1929–31 government , MacDonald gradually appreciated that the hopes which he had entertained during the 1920s of eliminating the Liberals and winning over the whole of the progressive vote for the Labour party could not be achieved .
30	A survey in 1992 showed that chough numbers had increased by a third since the previous survey 10 years earlier ; 1,247 pairs were counted , compared with 950 pairs in 1982 .

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