Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] of the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 2 | And nationalisation : that was great because it got rid of the old bosses . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were slanted somehow , and he recollected pictures he had seen of the early ancestors of the Manchu . |
| 5 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 9 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |