Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd taken her courage in both hands , and told him of her true feelings , they might have had a chance to work something out . |
| 2 | STEWART Renton was amazed when doctors told him he had broken his leg in two places — and he could expect to be off work for three months ! |
| 3 | It was amazing that , after Reaney had broken his leg in '70 and missed both the Cup Final and the trip to Mexico ( as well as the famous end-of-season run in ) , Cooper broke his leg two years later ( at Stoke I think ) and missed the ‘ 72 Cup Final . |
| 4 | On his return to England he wrote : ‘ It was a journey that ought not to have been made ; it had broken my life in two . ’ |
| 5 | One was a young man from the shop-floor who 'd got a metal splinter in his eye and the other was a secretary who had caught her heel in one of the open staircases and twisted her ankle . |
| 6 | The effect was to make Richard more inclined to peace than to war : war , he was to tell Parliament in 1397 , caused great harm and unnecessary destruction to both kingdoms , a view almost certainly shared by his near contemporary , Charles VI , who had succeeded his father in 1380 , a year which also witnessed the death of du Guesclin . |
| 7 | She described how they had carried their water in those sheepskins , which they call jerbah . |
| 8 | The maggots had done their work in those sockets and moved to other pastures . |
| 9 | One incidental result of this was that Indirect Rule , the proud and mysterious creation of innumerable men-on-the-spot , upon which it was forbidden to the uninitiated to look , was transformed after years of scrutiny by metropolitan experts into a uniform system of local government , whereby Britain hoped to bring into the orbit of her unresented influence the non-traditional elements which had made their appearance in African society . |
| 10 | On the contrary she roused my indignation at the two conspicuously Christian aunts who had made her childhood in that dark house at Newport miserable . |
| 11 | He carried into 1972 the kind of driving which had made his reputation in 1971 , and if you study the fact-sheets for that year — the inaugural race at Paul Ricard in France is a good example — you will see Emerson well back on the grid and yet prevailing in the end to finish well enough . |
| 12 | A meeting of the SCS early in 1917 called for the dismissal of Lord Devonport , the first Food Controller , who had made his fortune in wholesale grocery and was vehemently opposed to cooperation : |
| 13 | Beveridge had presented his report in 1942 at a time when it was overwhelmingly agreed that there should be no return to the conditions of the 1930s . |
| 14 | Saatchi , the most spectacular collector of recent times and probably the most active collector in British history ( with the exception of King Charles I ) , had bought their work in greater bulk and more intelligently than any other individual or institution . |
| 15 | Chang had offered his resignation in early March after his wife and daughter had been implicated in the scandal [ see p. 38089 ] . |
| 16 | The militants had intensified their campaign in late 1989 , prompting the government to dispatch large numbers of troops to the state and to impose widespread curfews and press restrictions . |
| 17 | The mob had shown its power in 1766 when Charles III was driven by a riot to sacrifice his minister , Esquilache , ‘ out of love for the people of Madrid ’ . |
| 18 | And yet , in the preceding century , the legend had played its part in stimulating inquiry into the geographical distribution of species . |
| 19 | The feminist and , increasingly , the lesbian community had become my haven in this country . |
| 20 | She sensed that the man opposite her had spent his lifetime in such small acts of kindness . |
| 21 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 22 | The country 's rulers were , after all , running scared : the American colonies had declared their independence in 1776 in dangerously democratic terms ; the writings of Tom Paine were being disseminated far and wide ; and , most threatening of all , there was every chance that the Jacobin ideas of the French Revolution of 1789 might take firm root in English soil . |
| 23 | Frank , who was serving his fifth term in the House and was one of the country 's most liberal federal legislators , had acknowledged his homosexuality in 1987 . |
| 24 | Tethlis 's heart was filled with a terrible cold hatred for the children of Naggaroth , for they had slain his family in one of their many raids . |
| 25 | An hour later she had ordered a taxi and Paige had waved her goodbye in some bemusement . |
| 26 | Mike had finished his Coke in three large gulps and now sat turning the glass around in his hands . |
| 27 | Waterloo Boy had unseated his rider in this event two years ago and finished second last year . |
| 28 | At the same time , military service had taken its toll in many American Boardrooms : inevitably , far fewer returned than had originally joined up , their ranks thinned by death on active service , by the desire to stay on in uniform and by retirement . |
| 29 | George Barker had taken his place in 1940 but had escaped to the United States before Pearl Harbor , for he had been followed everywhere by the ‘ thought police ’ , the sinister kempeitai , who suspected him of being a communist spy . |
| 30 | And then I m I exchanged in twelve months cos I was lucky I had put my name in two places to get a car . |