Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US dollars thus became owned by the exporters to the US . |
| 2 | Convinced of the rightness of his policies and fearful of the consequences of economic decline , Mosley became attracted to the forms of activist mass politics in an attempt to rejuvenate society . |
| 3 | I have seen a couple of determined ones peck the leg off their defeated adversary , but most were unable , or did n't think of it , and got caught by the rats during the night . |
| 4 | FIREMEN had to release a baby yesterday after her leg became trapped in the bars of her cot . |
| 5 | A number of dogs found poisoned on the shores of a small highland lochs may indicate that Scotland 's large deepwater lakes have been affected by phosphate and nitrate pollution . |
| 6 | They rotted quietly , like the dropped fruit you found hidden under the leaves of the tomato plants . |
| 7 | It turned out there was a military call-up in New Zealand , which he avoided by feigning epileptic fits ( a device he subsequently found described in The Confessions of Felix Krull , by Thomas Mann ) , but which had the beneficial effect in his case of getting him placed on national assistance , an invaluable windfall for a poet . |
| 8 | So I got caned on the palms of my hands . |
| 9 | Bernice , the Doctor 's rather overbearing friend , seemed fascinated by the paintings on the walls . |
| 10 | He seemed fascinated by the details of Robert 's conversion . |
| 11 | This area — even if he had been a total stranger to the city , and know nothing of its history , would have immediately advertised itself as the red-light district — even the very air seemed tainted by the smells of cheap perfume and sex . |
| 12 | The heat was intense and the humidity so heavy that the setting sun seemed crushed into the mountains like a piece of squashed orange modelling clay . |
| 13 | Things did go wrong … she 'd trusted in the powers of justice and compassion before , and she 'd lost her mother … she 'd trusted Mortimer with her friendship and he 'd betrayed her … trusted Guy with the whole of her heart and soul last night and all the time he 'd been laughing behind her back at the ‘ sexy redhead ’ from Chesters … |
| 14 | Some of her own childhood seemed trapped in the pages on which she had dribbled chocolate and , years ago , marked specially loved pages with sweetpapers and scraps of hair-ribbon . |
| 15 | She 'd stood there , shivering with the cold , her already ragged clothes ripped further by the rough handling she 'd endured at the hands of the militia . |
| 16 | He 'd attended to the brakes on the Saturday , but then , feeling unhappy with the alignment of the wheels , had started work on them . |
| 17 | These bacterial factors seemed related to the conditions of epithelial damage . |
| 18 | He remembered how she 'd sung for the passengers on the ship and how they 'd all liked her . |
| 19 | ‘ It probably wo n't be as bad as you think , ’ said Penry briskly , and launched into a description of the house he 'd bought on the banks of the River Wye near Builth Wells . |
| 20 | ‘ But the other , the man , the forensic pathologist thought he 'd died from the effects of nerve gas . ’ |
| 21 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 22 | The numbers of seats secured approximated to the quotas of first preference votes expressed and the only exception to this was the special case of North Down ( see below ) . |
| 23 | He looked as though he 'd stepped from the pages of a history book . |
| 24 | I was up afford dawn getting all ready , setting the china , both ours and what we 'd borrowed on the trestles in the orchard , helping Gideon to put the casks of beer in the yard , ready for the men to fill their harvest bottles , and fetching water from the well for the tea . |
| 25 | My father would explain how he dreamed about the ill and how , for instance , in the case of Bobby Bowen 's hand , paralysed after a pit accident , he 'd worked on the fingers for days without success until , in a dream , the answer had come . |
| 26 | She 'd rifled through the contents of her wardrobe twice , groaning disgustedly as she discounted one garment after another . |
| 27 | In St Erconwald 's church , Athelstan had just finished the Mass for the dead and was now blessing the corpse of Tosspot , an old drunkard who 'd lived in the cellars of the Piebald Horse tavern . |
| 28 | Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels . |
| 29 | It became mingled with the tales of a folk who lived in the east of your world ; they called it Adam 's Paradise . ’ |
| 30 | Imperial competition with Germany , embodied in an escalating naval race , became interlocked with the enmities between the continental powers . |