Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that failed many activists became demoralized . |
| 2 | That made perfect sense of Miss Julie 's slightly tatty and irregular patrician origins . |
| 3 | I 'd have them all on if I needed a confidence boost , or just for the sheer enjoyment of the sound , but it was fundamentally one AC30 that made that noise . |
| 4 | That made some sort of sense . |
| 5 | Bragad had brought quite a few men with him — a dozen or so though some , of course , were Mugeary 's , if that made any difference . |
| 6 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
| 7 | He lay on the ground thrashing around in great pain , strange choked gurgling sounds escaping from his throat . |
| 8 | Cinema-going was also increasing , with 101 million tickets the highest figure since 1980 sold last year . |
| 9 | A faint smell , alien yet horribly familiar ; the sense of a recent presence ; the possible significance of that unlocked outer door ; the dark passageway . |
| 10 | Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion . |
| 11 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 12 | On 21 January the Communists numbering up to 3000 made another assault on the Secretariat and were again repulsed . |
| 13 | The course of agricultural and industrial development between 1919 and 1935 produced abundant evidence that Japan was closely tied to the fluctuations of the world economy and highly constrained in the resources at her disposal during a period of growing protectionism . |
| 14 | The bailiffs of Sir Thomas Lovell at Ryhall , wealthy men worth £80 apiece , each owned three harnesses which might have been the property of their master . |
| 15 | In the soft turf she turned his face to lie upon that grazed right cheek , and spread his arms above his head . |
| 16 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 17 | Staining with ECCD-2 revealed several subpopulations of KC ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 18 | From that sprung another dilemma . |
| 19 | Patrick made sure the porter and the bell-boy each got another packet of Kent King Size . |
| 20 | Some of the exchanges were rather less thoughtful : eat the rich read one window , kill the poor replied another . |
| 21 | They each became Prime Minister after serving in two of the great offices of state . |
| 22 | Paris-based software and computer services company Generale de Service Informatique SA , or GSI , as it is better known , reported 1992 revenues up 8% to the equivalent of $460m , a rate of increase only half of that registered that year . |
| 23 | A potential failure of contraception had been recognised by 171 patients : 93 reported a split or leaking condom ; 13 reported a condom coming off during intercourse ; 32 admitted inconsistent use of condoms ; 32 reported forgetting to take contraceptive pills or taking antibiotics concurrently with the pill ; and one reported a late injection of medroxyprogesterone acetate . |
| 24 | Hence , each made great efforts to achieve a dominant position . |
| 25 | Nick Skelton , on Burmah Serenade , and Germany 's Franke Sloothaak , on Walzerkoenig , could have taken the prize , for the rider clearing the highest course , but each made one error . |
| 26 | The appellants , who each made repeated sales at the shop , pleaded not guilty to indictments charging burglary and handling stolen goods as alternatives . |
| 27 | Six salmon were reported from the River Moy for the week while both the Druncliffe River and the Ballisodare River each produced two salmon to rod and line . |
| 28 | He was so very familiar on the streets of the town , with that zipped yellow jacket and his jeans , yet be looked like something from another world in the garden . |
| 29 | Sorry got some money in there , OK oh do your ballerina bit , we 'll have to wash your face , yeah it 's filthy , filthy face , breakfast face oh that 's that new twins is n't it ? |
| 30 | Somewhere in that clouded black sky there was a moon due to rise very soon now . |