Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sheer numbers involved also ruled out this technique . |
| 2 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 3 | Finance ministers Theo Waigel of Germany and Michel Sapin of France said after talks in Bonn that close co-operation between their two countries had successfully fended off speculative attacks on the franc . |
| 4 | Although President dos Santos had long expressed his willingness to form such a government , the agreement marked a significant policy change for Savimbi who had hitherto ruled out political co-operation with the MPLA-PT . |
| 5 | The son of a Saxon clergyman turned schoolmaster , Boelcke was now twenty-five , had already shot down nine planes and was the youngest to win the ‘ Pour le Mérite ’ . |
| 6 | During these years plague had ravaged through the whole of England , and had already wiped out whole parishes , and in particular the parish of Dode . |
| 7 | Our Investigation Department were not dragging their heels in this respect and had already pulled off several coups as a result of painstaking groundwork with contacts abroad and in the UK . |
| 8 | It was more than possible that Zhukov had already taken off more prints for himself . |
| 9 | The lowest price submitted for the work , £232,024 , was from John Kelk of No. 13 South Street , Grosvenor Square , who had already carried out some work for the Government , but is better known as a railway contractor . |
| 10 | Before the 1964–70 Labour government made it Department of Education and Science policy , a number of local authorities had already set up comprehensive schools . |
| 11 | I had already coughed up forty bucks at the door . |
| 12 | Hard and sharp as a flint , from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire ; secret , and self-contained , and solitary as an oyster . ’ |
| 13 | Gerry Skelton , Borders district secretary of the TGWU , said that when the benefits agencies had mistakenly paid out extra money to claimants they had not been prepared to wait four years for the cash to be handed back . |
| 14 | In expanding their empire , the British had habitually sought out local agents through whom to impose their authority , and though these arrangements often broke down after the initial period of contact , sometimes they did not . |
| 15 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 16 | By the time we reboarded the pavilion , after barely an hour 's play , in deference to the rising tide , we had probably soaked up more liquid than the pitch . |
| 17 | So far chemical methods had failed to produce purification , and it had also turned out that matter precipitated from dirty water would not make fertilizer of great value . |
| 18 | He had also clocked up 34 years as a retained firefighter when he retired from that job two years ago . |
| 19 | He had also carried out several town planning improvements in London , but early in 1856 with the appointment by Hall of Henry Arthur Hunt ( 1810–89 ) to the new post of Surveyor of the Works and Public Buildings , he found that his duties had been drastically curtailed . |
| 20 | The Iraqis had also carried out widespread looting and had caused serious damage to the country 's infrastructure . |
| 21 | They had even packed up further provisions in the picnic basket Brian had happened to bring , so that they would have sustenance to help them on their way : Taunton , Wellington , Tiverton . |
| 22 | It was much more , he thought as he moved the boiling pan off the stove and on to the floor , trying to ignore the unholy smell of bleach that came off it as it sloshed against the sides of the vessel , that he had simply woken up one morning and realized , to use a phrase a friend had used about someone else 's wife , ‘ what he had got hold of ’ . |
| 23 | On May 28 , President Cesár Gaviria Trujillo stated that he had virtually ruled out any possibility of reaching an agreement with the guerrillas , and that the actions of the armed forces were aimed at " wiping them out " . |
| 24 | Jordan 's patrol , passing that way the night before , had been spotted , and had then shot up some trucks . |
| 25 | D'Alembord had quite given up any attempt to dance . |
| 26 | Equally important are economies of scope : big firms can use the materials and processes employed to make one product in the manufacture of related goods , as Japan 's consumer-electronics companies did in the 1970s , using the same factories that had previously churned out cheap transistor radios to manufacture televisions and videos . |
| 27 | In a report on the fighting on April 10 , Lao National Radio stated that government forces had recently carried out two campaigns against " bad and vandalistic " elements in the north-western province of Bolikhamsai . |
| 28 | He had recently taken over this region , which had previously been subject to the Ptolemies in Egypt . |
| 29 | He had uneasily come to terms with the fact that Connors had been more than vague , had actually held back vital information . |
| 30 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |