Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Philips kept their ownership of the buildings and equipment used in the preparation and serving of the food , but made them available to ISS without charge ( while undertaking to maintain them in good order ) and Philips even paid for the electricity , water and telephone costs involved in the canteen operation and for the removal of waste . |
| 2 | The medium bombards and basilisks , made by John in his wisdom with trunnions , now showed the virtues of his new two-wheeled carriages , which made them easy to move and regroup whatever the weather . |
| 3 | In this campaign too — the battle of the River Ebro — the government forces had the initial advantage of surprise , but their much depleted physical and military strength made them unable to turn it to their permanent advantage and they were eventually pushed back to their original positions . |
| 4 | The depute fiscal , Elaine Warden , asked the sheriff to demand more staff for patients whose agitated conditions made them liable to fall out of bed . |
| 5 | They made a conscious decision not to deal with the new carpet superstores , largely because profit margins would be so low in that their bulk purchasing power made them able to demand low margins . |
| 6 | She dyed some of the rice grains a different colour from the background , these grains were easy to see : she dyed other grains the same colour as the background , which made them difficult to see . |
| 7 | A comment was made that the idiosyncrasies of each library made them difficult to use . |
| 8 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 9 | Their desire to keep rates down made them reluctant to build council houses . |
| 10 | The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries . |
| 11 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 12 | A coastguard spokesman said the other two ‘ undoubtedly survived because they were wearing lifejackets , which also made them easier to spot in the water . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 14 | It made me sad to hear him speak like that ; he did n't seem to understand that was all I wanted to do . |
| 15 | It was the only occasion I saw inside and it made me hungry to go again . |
| 16 | It was this that made me unable to sleep , so that coming downstairs , parched with alcohol , for a glass of lemonade , I heard my mother and Lili talking . |
| 17 | IT made me angry to read that £2 million pools winner Rodi Woodcock kept her laboratory job . |
| 18 | Although I felt sorry for him , that prickliness in his manner made me reluctant to reveal myself . |
| 19 | ‘ Captain Mitford made me ashamed to have English blood . ’ |
| 20 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 21 | I 've hardly got any in cos when I left my nursery I got them all to do me one and when I left my school I got a load of them to do me one I did n't get many at the day nursery , but I got a handful . |
| 22 | She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship . |
| 23 | Then he said , speaking softly and half to himself , ‘ Suppose she got someone local to make a Will for her and then kept it here ? |
| 24 | Peter Yeo opened his mouth to speak , and found nothing useful to say . |
| 25 | There are twenty-one Anglican churches in Halifax and about half-a-dozen denominations , so Kit Widdows invited them all to take part and about one third took up his invitation and produced a play . |
| 26 | ‘ Cafiero , that rich son of a pig , he came this way , tried to make the peasants rise on his own estates , ’ Davide 's father was talking , ‘ but he found them hard to excite down Acquaqueta way in spite of everything . |
| 27 | I found them comfortable to use and easy to care for . |
| 28 | There was no heating in the room and an inadequacy of blankets , and I finally put on all my clothes again and tried my best to snuggle under the only blanket to snatch an hour of sleep . |
| 29 | Deeply ashamed of my wayward notions , I tried my best to contradict myself . |
| 30 | I tried my best to comfort her but she was beyond consolation . |