Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , he left behind a potent series of myths — the rock ‘ n ’ roll rebel , the sensitive poet , the sexual athlete , the Lizard King — and a body of work that would influence musicians who had n't even been born when their hero was buried and his gravestone gained its first layer of graffiti in Pére Lachaise cemetery . |
| 2 | The human members of the community are here mainly because out in the commercial world , they had been doing things they did not want to do , using skills they wished they did not have . |
| 3 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 4 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 5 | It was a particular , exact colour ; Musgrave had seen it only once before , in a special department of the Bank of England where they incinerated notes which had been taken out of circulation . |
| 6 | As she passed Pascoe he pressed play and a voice whispered ‘ … dead . ’ |
| 7 | Whatever the origin of these views , the groups produced literature which fed such beliefs and this material found a wider readership through the NL . |
| 8 | Prior to the tax year which began on Monday , building societies only had to report accounts which paid more than £1,400 with the threshold for National Savings being £250 on investment accounts and £500 on its ordinary account . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that the majority of students in adult education are women , the majority of volunteers , part-time workers , detached workers , and assistant workers in adult education are women , those with key jobs in the career structure — mostly men — made no recognition of this fact , except in so far as it influenced their assumptions about ‘ relevant ’ curricula and enabled them to plan programmes which depended upon an enormous amount of female exploitation . |
| 10 | Her thesis was that cultural and physical diversity was important in the life of a city , and she charged planners with pursuing policies which had the effect of eradicating it . |
| 11 | He looked up and stared at his audience with the slightly accusing look he used for classes of students . |
| 12 | ‘ That drugs story you asked me to investigate , Ken , has turned out amazingly . ’ |
| 13 | Stain DNAs which did not cut with Hae III were subjected to Hind III digestion . |
| 14 | They 've got stacks of Christmas they got walkies they got everything . |
| 15 | Baldwin tabled proposals which involved payments of £34 million a year . |
| 16 | Von Karajan had been a member of the Nazi party , and saw no reason publicly to mourn musicians who had been persecuted ; Abbado by contrast is a left-winger whose mother was imprisoned by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish child . |
| 17 | Y'know so she did n't necessarily have a strong sense of y'know coping and surviving and er using strategies which helped her get through it . |
| 18 | The President began the meeting as usual , with a review of the scientific advances of the previous year , naming experts who had helped him in making his list . |
| 19 | Then with fumbling fingers she extracted her soap and hurled the bag after him across the bathroom floor . |
| 20 | The ride started and each time that I passed Mum I waved . |
| 21 | What I would like to do now is to reintroduce Phill who addressed us a little bit earlier this morning who 's going to tell us a little bit more about enterprise client server solutions . |
| 22 | By using cords I managed to create a curvilinear band which is unusual in the sense that no two bands would ever be the same . |
| 23 | Breeze soon began to feel better , and asked Chignell what had happened . |
| 24 | He so disliked them that when he became archbishop it complicated his life . |
| 25 | We 've seen Turners opposing each other for Australia and New Zealand , Richardses for West Indies and England , Manns for England and South Africa ( they both dismissed each other during the 1948–49 series , but it was George catching Tufty which gave rise to John Arlott 's legendary comment about ‘ Mann 's inhumanity to Mann ’ ) , and yet more Smiths ( T.P.B. and F.B. ) for England and New Zealand and for England ( D.V. ) against West Indies ( O.G. ) . |
| 26 | We did , however , manage to carry out a certain amount of court observation and also to interview solicitors who dealt with some of the cases . |
| 27 | He made contacts which brought him in touch with Jack Kent Cook who ran Saturday Night Magazine . |
| 28 | The committee found that most of the complaints were justified and recommended improvements which resulted in the conditions of service and promotion prospects of the staff being brought into line with the rest of the Civil Service . |
| 29 | I said no staying at , mum , she said well bring mum I said I do n't think her a her her scene . |
| 30 | A selection of commonly used naming words which incorporated consonants in the appropriate contexts was tried out with 130 normal children and 57 children of average or above-average intelligence who had already been identified as having retarded phonology . |