Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It concludes by detailing retention issues and suggesting approaches to the issues made possible by this type of media . |
| 2 | I pretended it was Annie 's hair we was putting on the tree , and I called her a little angel , but she got upset about that , so I stopped . |
| 3 | But I became pregnant at that point and was absolutely thrilled . |
| 4 | Table I shows the distribution of the women according to waist-hip ratio , body mass index , and age , and the percentage that became pregnant in each category . |
| 5 | The rabbits became strange in many ways , different from other rabbits . |
| 6 | A late stimulus for the evolution of distinctive mammals was the Pleistocene Ice Age , although a variety also became extinct at this time . |
| 7 | True , it faced north , but you got used to that . |
| 8 | But very soon he got used to these things and learnt to understand what they meant . |
| 9 | The discrepancy between job-specification and status became acute for some coordinators , and remained a problem in some schools , not just for coordinators but also for many other staff with significant cross-school managerial responsibilities . |
| 10 | She became friendly with many of the young intellectuals of the day , and her lifelong devotion to Henry Wood Nevinson ( 1856–1941 , q.v. ) , writer , war correspondent , and suffrage campaigner , dates from this period . |
| 11 | Bose became interested in this and set his colleague Dr Shyamadas Chatterjee to work to see if there was enough to use as a source for liquid helium for their labs . |
| 12 | She adds : ‘ I first became interested in this work when a young boy was referred to me . |
| 13 | ‘ We got fond of each other , Francis and I. He was a generous man , a rare thing these days . |
| 14 | ‘ … suddenly I became free by some secret action , and now I am so happy I found your letter concerning my person . |
| 15 | But Kendall 's men made light of any suggestion of a crisis with an irresistible first-half display . |
| 16 | Christopher Claridge died after his parachute became tangled with another during a display . |
| 17 | With good reason , the memory of the 1975–6 war became painful for many Palestinians . |
| 18 | Now he 'd sit and stare at those same walls made transparent by all the lights left on at night . |
| 19 | A few years earlier the reddish-yellow Sheeted Somerset , which probably became extinct before 1890 , had been described as a mainly polled breed remarkable for nothing except its coat pattern : the belted pattern became popular among those who liked decorative livestock in their parks . |
| 20 | When a shipyard closed many more workers soon became unemployed besides those in the shipyard . |
| 21 | The farm workers who became unemployed by this could move to towns & get jobs in factories & mines , which are also being improved , as are the living conditions in the towns , as Lucy described in her speech . |
| 22 | Eventually printed replicas of stamps became acceptable to both sides . |
| 23 | To Michele , who had risen to his feet , his dark face wiped clear of all expression , she said in rapid Italian , ‘ Do you think it 's wise to antagonise our young friend ? |
| 24 | Faces in the hall registered distress at this price as it became clear to many of those present that they would be unable to win anything with their limited sources . |
| 25 | The newspaper changed sides and the public 's antagonism changed to vocal support as the safety and environmental benefits became clear for all to see . |
| 26 | It became clear during this work that there is some uncertainty and confusion about identity among many Laz themselves , and that representatives of these people elsewhere in Turkey can be very misleading . |
| 27 | The Board 's overriding concern was to deprive employees found guilty of such acts of their reinstatement rights . |
| 28 | ‘ Praise The Lord ’ Bakker found guilty on all counts |
| 29 | For example , the number of indictable offenders found guilty in all courts increased from just under 40,000 in 1939 to 340,000 in 1999 . |
| 30 | An extreme example is MDI , a quoted housing developer whose borrowing rose 23-fold in those five years . |