Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser . |
| 2 | Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War . |
| 3 | ‘ Has Mr MacKay left yet ? ’ she 'd enquired of the startled receptionist . |
| 4 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 5 | If anything went wrong in any part of the world he always said " That 's because you got rid of the little man " . |
| 6 | ‘ If you got rid of the hereditary right to vote you would lose 85 per cent of the problems . |
| 7 | And nationalisation : that was great because it got rid of the old bosses . |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 9 | And his , and he got rid of the beautiful eagle erm you know , reading desk and he got rid of the Bishops 's erm , chair , the Bishop 's what do they call it ? |
| 10 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |
| 11 | But it was rumoured that the Palace was enchanted by what it had heard of the planned event and wished to make a non-committal gesture of support while not embroiling itself in politics . |
| 12 | In two important maize-growing areas , fewer than half of those interviewed had heard of the increased price , and in an area where the Government was keen to encourage a substantial increase in local production , less than one in ten had heard of the new prices . |
| 13 | In two important maize-growing areas , fewer than half of those interviewed had heard of the increased price , and in an area where the Government was keen to encourage a substantial increase in local production , less than one in ten had heard of the new prices . |
| 14 | Only five women out of 50 knew about Mr Milburn while 14 of the male interviewees had heard of the Labour candidate . |
| 15 | I had heard of the many mercy missions of the ruler 's private planes . |
| 16 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 17 | They were slanted somehow , and he recollected pictures he had seen of the early ancestors of the Manchu . |
| 18 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 19 | The Foreign Office requested an assessment from the War Office in December 1949 to clarify or confirm the analysis the Foreign Office had made of the respective strength of the two sides . |
| 20 | The following evening Daphne asked her what she had thought of the young officer she had met at the Opera . |
| 21 | Speaking of the Commonwealth at the time of Dunkirk in 1940 , Churchill had talked of the old lion with her lion-cubs about her , and a lion that had beaten a unicorn must have ancient strengths that Modernism and Bloomsbury alike between the wars had failed to acknowledge or to note . |
| 22 | Rostov sorted through the physical descriptions which Burun had supplied of the principal members of the court and knew that he was addressing Va'na Khatun , once a slave and concubine , but now the wife of Arjun and grandmother to the wife of Burun 's own son Jotan . |
| 23 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 24 | And what a month it 's been , ’ mused Breeze , and she made a peep-hole too , and looked out at the sodden fields where leggy lambs were standing in groups , obviously wondering what had become of the lovely sunshine their mothers had told them about . |
| 25 | Weinberger 's stated position was that he had disapproved of the entire operation . |
| 26 | Erlich , rookie Fed , had demanded of the local police that they get a man up there , up to the nests , that they get each of the nests down , that they sift each of the nests on the very long chance that the storks had lifted a fibre of torn clothing to bind a nest wall . |
| 27 | She had never-quite-known what Dorothy Tuckey , and Magill and Tatham had known of the real loneliness of the hunted . |
| 28 | However , Rico was himself arrested on Dec. 10 for allegedly inciting public disorder , by claiming in the press that there were major problems still unresolved in the Army , that he had known of the intended rebellion , and that he had made a mistake in not preventing it . |
| 29 | Certainly , however , if the owners had known of the secret intention , they would not have consented . |
| 30 | He would be able to tell them that he had disposed of the offending creature and was in no danger . |