Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 2 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 3 | Presumably some of those who were still loyal to Richard kept him informed of the deteriorating political situation , and of the contacts between his brothers and the rebels . |
| 4 | She looked over , and saw him sprawled over the inbuilt mini-heater vent . |
| 5 | I had them processed at the one-hour place , cost me a fortune but … |
| 6 | How many times had I prayed for the impossible ? |
| 7 | And Colin had his done about the same time . |
| 8 | Royal watchers said it was significant that Diana had not mentioned Morton by name , nor had she referred to the main allegations in his book . |
| 9 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 10 | Had she looked at the living Rachaela as now Rachaela looked at Ruth ? |
| 11 | Had she opted for the wrong values ? |
| 12 | Would it have been better had you gone to the other jobs ? |
| 13 | What had they said at the last ? |
| 14 | Why had they gathered in the shadowed space ? |
| 15 | Had they succeeded for the first time in outstripping the rumours of their coming ? |
| 16 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 17 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 18 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 19 | It snatched at Cardiff and he tried to twist away from it , pain like fire stabbing into his chest where the thing had him gripped with the other claw . |
| 20 | In 1919 , a stroke left him paralysed down the left side , confused , unable to read or dictate , and staring vacantly into space . |
| 21 | Had he written about the great hunt , the rites of the warriors ? |
| 22 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 23 | The charges were eventually dropped after an investigation , but had he stayed with the Scots Guards his career would inevitably have been wrecked . |
| 24 | Had he come to the wrong crossroads ? |
| 25 | What had he meant about the last couple of lines of her notes ? |
| 26 | Labour 's Shadow Chancellor John Smith responded , explaining why the great poet would definitely have joined Amnesty had it existed in the 18th century . |
| 27 | I think the first time I saw Day At The Beach they had it written on the wrong strings . |
| 28 | It was almost certainly acquired by George III who had it bound in the present red morocco , gilt tooled binding which has been reproduced for the facsimile . |
| 29 | Waterston , never interested in personal glory , did not try to claim priority , but J. W. Strutt , third Baron Rayleigh [ q.v. ] , rediscovered the paper and had it published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1892 , with an introduction which belatedly gave Waterston due credit . |
| 30 | Hopeless with that on because of course , he 's been wearing a pullover all the time and initially he had it clipped on the right hand side of his belts and of course , with that switch where is it ? |