Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
| 2 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 3 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 4 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 5 | Back at the village post office he 'd sorted out the usual junk mail which never made it past the door of the shop and found that he was left with one real , honest-to-God letter . |
| 6 | The man who 'd turned up the sexual voltage after their night out , only to be found embracing his secretary at precisely the time they 'd agreed to meet today … |
| 7 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 8 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 9 | They 'd got out the best china and crystal glasses , the damask napkins , the ebony-handled knives . |
| 10 | If she 'd had only the clerical level of interface that she was supposed to have , she 'd never have found it . |
| 11 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 12 | He 'd pulled up the first spring weeds from the flower-beds , little shoots of dandelion and dock and Scotch grass . |
| 13 | We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time . |
| 14 | Ross , who 'd taken over the industrial empire founded by his father , Sir David Wyndham , had been planning to develop and broaden the company 's overseas operations . |
| 15 | The difficulty factors noted covered both the general size of the number concerned and , more importantly , the need to put in spacing zeros to establish the place value of a digit . |
| 16 | Gradually a mixed bag of cossacks , exiles and peasants settled the area , and as the natives became pacified so the military flavour declined . |
| 17 | Lat searched his own eyes and saw reflected there the mingled emotions that haunted his mind . |
| 18 | After a night of endless fun — rounders followed by Cluedo , Cheat and a visit to the Clumber Park Social Club where Ken performed a striking rendition of Wild Thing on his guitar — I felt burnt out the next morning , but everyone else was raring to go . |
| 19 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 20 | Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen . |
| 21 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 22 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 23 | Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing . |
| 24 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
| 25 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 26 | Groups spoke of ‘ strategies ’ and making ‘ career moves ’ ; the jargon of the Harvard Business School had banished forever the Utopian cliches of Woodstock , and the anarchist ones of punk . |
| 27 | Mickey had rang up the social worker and he had taken the bairn . |
| 28 | Numbers were small ; but a final case study approach revealed that for people who lived alone , had no informal carer who could manage all necessary care ; and had a high level of cognitive impairment , the Home Support Project was likely to prolong home care beyond that of those who had received only the usual services . |
| 29 | The British Market Research Bureau had examined how the sexual habits of homosexuals had changed between 1986 and 1989 . |
| 30 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |