Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A budgie found found this morning in the Bobsmill area it 's yellow and green , two nine three eight two five two nine three eight two five can you call after four o'clock and er last one a cat found in Standhill Road in Carlton found last night it 's black and white and it 's got a pink collar on , five two six six seven one five two six six seven one . |
2 | Unless they 've sent for two lots and used used this address for one . |
3 | The men and women whom they encountered showed neither hostility towards their new enemies nor enthusiasm for a great patriotic war : |
4 | The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address . |
5 | The local authorities surveyed had outstanding debt in excess of £100 million ( as a proxy for capital intensity ) and the health authorities were those that had ( then ) recently undertaken major capital projects . |
6 | The situation appears to be similar in UK public libraries , where a survey by Capital planning Information found that one-third of 32 library authorities surveyed had some form of selection policy . |
7 | The speed gained by operating her rotors from a paltry 45 kW source was the equivalent to that obtained had another Diesel of 370 kW been coupled in series to the existing two . |
8 | Everyone in Knockglen heard about it in record time , but what they heard bore little relation to the facts . |
9 | The onset of war and the urban destruction that followed breathed new spirit into a flagging crusade . |
10 | The newsagent where the girl worked said last night that both paper boys and girls would now go out in pairs , or with an adult , and only in full daylight . |
11 | When Wilson was obliged to rest on the stairs , they both begged her not to continue and when she insisted went either side of her , helping her along . |
12 | The company acquired had many business interests which overlapped the company 's own businesses . |
13 | Nothing need surprise me somebody went said this bloke never advertise at all its all word of mouth , |
14 | And er they felt had little prestige and that the French peop The French Canadian speakers had little prestige in their own language . |
15 | But also , he was drawn towards Bernard , whose vision and single-mindedness he greatly admired , and a business which he felt had great potential for further growth . |
16 | The two women questioned had little knowledge and no inclination to learn about nablabs . |
17 | This money was initially paid out to distributors as a stimulus to set up a network of satellite producers but , after the corporation had trouble recovering the £3 million invested in Korda 's British Lion , money was directed into individual projects which they thought had commercial potential , as the percentage of the budget ( usually 30 per cent ) that could n't be raised from a distributor . |
18 | The morbidity data presented demonstrated higher prevalence of chronic health problems among women as compared with men . |
19 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
20 | But what he said had little effect on Sally-Anne compared with the sight of his face at last . |
21 | I would hope that if , if a parent saw er that er somebody had had that sort of attitude towards the staff that |
22 | And they , they had had some experience or were they engineers or something |
23 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
24 | In our study women who smoked had lower conception rates , though this did not reach significance . |