Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shopkeeper Ajay Patel , 24 , failed to see 26-year-old Lynn Jones an honours graduate working to finance biology studies in Africa until it was too late , said Derek Inman , prosecuting . |
| 2 | Twenty-four per cent of British bathing beaches failed to meet minimum EC safety standards for water quality in 1991 — an increase of one per cent on the previous year . |
| 3 | The 68060 is a static , modular , superscalar and superpipelined part built using 0.8-micron CMOS technology — BiCMOS techniques will be incorporated in the planned 68080 and 68100 , Motorola says . |
| 4 | Germany , Belgium and the Netherlands were outvoted by their EC partners when they tried to increase Latin America 's share of the Community banana market . |
| 5 | Known as the District 's ‘ Sabine Women ’ these young graduates not only held together the framework of the District 's organisation in the counties throughout the war , but added substantially to the number of courses provided by the District and helped to establish new WEA branches and centres among the civilian population . |
| 6 | The new US approach fell short of outright recognition for Bazin 's government , but involved urging exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to meet with Bazin , whereas the earlier US position had been that Aristide should choose his own Prime Minister prior to his return to the country . |
| 7 | But I am troubled that he mentions the deaths of British servicemen without any references to the closing of the gates of Mandatory Palestine to the desperate refugees who tried to leave Nazi Germany but found the rest of Europe and the Jewish homeland closed to them . |
| 8 | To that end , she tried to keep alive Cissie 's love for her brother , although it was proving more and more difficult as the girl frequently pointed out , ‘ He ai n't the same , Beth . |
| 9 | Here she stopped to watch old Twomey the butler shaving himself with a cut-throat razor . |
| 10 | Although it is known that Hains had genuine and legitimate professional links with Georges Rudier , the nephew of Rodin 's own bronze-founder , Alexis Rudier , further investigations still have to determine how Hains came to acquire original Rodin plaster casts . |
| 11 | His expression wicked , he continued the stare which seemed to strip poor McAllister of her clothing , a stare so cruel that Dr Neil immediately saw its import and began to bridle at the sight , putting out a protective hand to his beloved , to feel her tremble beneath it . |
| 12 | I mean to tell you that I 'd seen old Ken |
| 13 | They 'd buried old Mr Rine that morning , she added , and old Mrs Crowley on Saturday . |
| 14 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
| 15 | But whereas Oldman always seemed to have mainstream Hollywood in his sights . |
| 16 | It was part of the folklore among their friends , part of the legend which was growing up around-Kevin Ryan , the man who 'd married old Heraghty 's daughter and made a small furniture-manufacturing business into a multi-million-dollar corporation with branches right across the States . |
| 17 | ‘ INIT ’ lanes show initiation products prior to elongation while C and G represent sequencing lanes obtained using 3-O-methyl CTP and 3-O-methyl GTP respectively . |
| 18 | AN actress old enough to be drawing her pension begged to play glamorous Scarlett O'Hara in a sequel to Gone With The Wind . |
| 19 | Mrs Ardern vowed to keep open Speke 's closure-threatened Pope John Paul II High School even if it meant opting out of the control of the church . |
| 20 | At all events , I dined with him when he came up and happened to mention poor Willy 's plight . |
| 21 | It was realized that such a policy risked leaving Soviet Russia as the dominant force in a post-Nazi Europe . |
| 22 | However , after the Cuban revolution Soviet analysts began to include Latin America in their discussions of the underdeveloped world , and a series of initiatives were taken by Moscow both to overcome its ignorance of the area and to increase its presence there . |
| 23 | Detroit-made compacts began to challenge cheap Volkswagens and foreign imports : only , being produced under the Detroit philosophy of more car per car , they were soon so accessorized , automated and air-conditioned that they were no longer cheap . |
| 24 | The ruling threatened to undermine other Iran-contra convictions , including that of John Poindexter , North 's former superior at the National Security Council , who was convicted of five felonies in April 1990 and who , like North , had testified to Congress under a grant of limited immunity . |
| 25 | Ferguson , who failed to land 16-goal Alan Shearer and bought Dion Dublin — only for him to break a leg — is also thought to be watching Dundee United 's Duncan Ferguson . |
| 26 | Married Mr Wilson , 53 , admitted asking newly-wed Mrs Cann if she wore underwear , making jibes about her sex life and saying women should only get jobs if they wore low-cut tops and tight skirts . |
| 27 | Half of the way through the book when things started to go wrong Ralph realised that Piggy did have some valuable points . |
| 28 | It was in the context of this struggle for control that the western world , with the United States at its head , decided to readmit Francoist Spain to its circle . |
| 29 | He had given it up for his very inferior car when he started courting Big Brenda out of the Biology lab — Biological Brenda , as Preston called her , who gave them lessons on sex , and no doubt Sam as well . |
| 30 | BRIAN CLOUGH was handed a £96,000 FA Cup bonus yesterday when the BBC decided to screen live Nottingham Forest 's third round clash against Southampton at the City Ground on Sunday , January 3 . |