Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging .
2	They immediately commissioned me to photograph this expensive restaurant nearby .
3	I had a number of telephone conversations with him , and an interim letter dated 7 January in which he suggested , or asked me to suggest several possible dates .
4	Referring back to that list of priorities led me to address this thorny issue once more , only this time less from the point of view of a recording being merely compared with other recordings ( or some mean recorded standard ) , than the level of execution which the scores themselves would appear to invite .
5	That got me doing some serious thinking .
6	That had changed tremendously , so easy it was to get into the country , that I went in and out of the border about three times , because having got into Yugoslavia , I realized I had some Italian currency , so I drove out again , spent my Italian currency , and drove back again .
7	It was then that I realised I needed some first aid training . ’
8	You may have suspected something when you caught me using that heavenly perfume you bought for Mummy 's birthday .
9	However , substantial investment in new technology together with an increased market share in the UK and the North American markets helped them to offset these initial setbacks and produce a stronger finish to the year .
10	In addition to the financial and statistical information already mentioned they had available two reports , one on Conferences , the other on Leisure Facilities in Hotels .
11	Take Henry I , for example , the king who never smiled again , our teacher told us , after he had lost his only son and heir , in the White Ship : then they found he had twenty-four little baskets scattered all round the country .
12	As luck would have it , Jean-Claude found he needed some old scores he had put to one side as they were too heavy to bring along with everything else we had had to load on the motor cycle .
13	Olson adopted a public choice methodology but used it to produce striking anti-pluralist criticisms in the tradition of elite theory .
14	‘ It helped us make some critical decisions about the drilling and completion of the well , ’ he says .
15	I could hear myself groaning like an old pig ! and the doctor told me to use all that energy I was expending on the noise to push with !
16	Terry said yesterday : ‘ The doctor told me to get some fresh air , so I thought I 'd take the dog for a walk .
17	‘ And when she noticed I had two other children with me she laughed and said she knew what a handful they could be . ’
18	Constanze , thoroughly alarmed , forbade him to do any more work on the Requiem until his health improved .
19	She said she wanted to warn the Shah , but her husband forbade her to do any such thing .
20	Ben forbade her to do any such thing .
21	I noticed they had some Philippine mahogany doors in Do It All
22	But John McQueen learnt it had more serious effects .
23	He could n't read , he assumed it said twenty cubic metres which it usually does .
24	‘ What made you choose that particular shop ? ’
25	And what made you choose this particular part of
26	‘ Jacqui and Meik told me he made you do some dreadful things . ’
27	‘ No reason , ’ she said , ‘ just the same polite curiosity that made you ask all those questions about Simone and André .
28	‘ Then what in hell 's name made you come all this way in weather like this ? ’
29	You do n't think I expected you to have two hundred pounds on you , do you ?
30	For our competition in January , we asked you to answer three easy questions and complete the tie breaker : ‘ JR would love a Texas TravelMate because … ’

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