Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found — vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks — he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club . |
| 2 | As Charles Medawar points out in his seminal study , Power and Dependence ( Social Audit , £10 ) , it was not until the 1980s that benzodiazepine dependency became recognized as an iatrogenic problem , a disease caused by medicine itself . |
| 3 | A TERRIER found decapitated on an unofficial dump could have been the victim of a dog fight , it has been claimed . |
| 4 | Among 43 people reported killed during an LTTE ambush in the eastern district of Amparai on Nov. 3 were 23 servicemen . |
| 5 | In one school , the formulation of the library proposal became subsumed within an active ad hoc lower-school curriculum development committee led by an energetic and inspirational coordinator . |
| 6 | These were collected by a stonemason , Hugh Miller ( 1802–56 ) , who became accepted as an authority on the subject and went on to become an outspoken critic of evolutionism . |
| 7 | Desolate from the death of her infant daughter , with her husband immersed in his career as principal of Liverpool College , she ‘ became possessed with an irresistible desire to go forth and find some pain keener than my own : |
| 8 | She 'd heard of an opening for a showroom model at one of the better fashion houses on the Via Monte-napoleone ; despite the agency 's insistence on scouting all jobs itself , she had gone around to the house and applied for the position herself , listing International Models as representing her . |
| 9 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 10 | The American firm Cannondale produces a jacket like this ( though I did n't buy it , as it seemed designed for an American winter ! ) |
| 11 | Karpov came prepared with an improvement and it equalised comfortably . |
| 12 | His regrets about not meeting Tyson might evaporate if they opened the gates of the Indiana youth centre tomorrow , especially as Holyfield seemed made for an opponent who is currently America 's most famous jailbird . |
| 13 | Once Cash seemed destined for an early grave like his friends Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison . |
| 14 | She seemed possessed of an inviolable grace . |
| 15 | ‘ Today he came armed with an angle , as sharp as Elizabeth David 's kitchen knife . |
| 16 | Sitting near the window , with its view of the fire escape , smoking a joint he 'd bought in an amusement arcade , he wrote in a notebook about visiting Spanish towns , and the beaches , then about the few days in London because his imagination ran out on Spain with the end of the brochure about flamenco dancing and bullfights , and because what he was doing was more immediate . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyhow , ’ she resumed , having no time then to fathom it , ‘ at first Lubor Ondrus , only out of devilment I 'm sure , seemed surprised that you 'd agreed to an interview . |
| 18 | Though when some seconds later her brain began to function , ‘ So Lubor was n't teasing when he seemed suprised that you 'd agreed to an interview ! |
| 19 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 20 | She lied to me , though , when I asked at about the age of eight what she 'd done : she said she 'd worked in an office , done clerical work . |
| 21 | Andy Preston came dressed as an Eater Island Statue — and slammed as hard as one too . |
| 22 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 23 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 24 | Somehow the comment , which should have been entirely innocent , seemed loaded with an undercurrent of meaning . |
| 25 | I came to motor sport after I 'd qualified as an architect and gained a business degree , ’ he told her curtly . |
| 26 | Two weeks on perfect sand in sunshine nine to five ; she 'd returned with an all-over tan feeling wonderful and hey presto , head over heels in love with Astrid ! |
| 27 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 28 | The course the strike followed in the village was of an initial passive consensus led by activists , which with the onset of local strikebreaking ( Sept 1984 ) became transformed into an active consensus with widespread mobilisation . |
| 29 | Her eyes had flown to meet his , then dropped at his sarcastic comment as her cheeks became stained with an ugly red . |
| 30 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |