Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour .
2 Most of the key actors mentioned had close connections with Dicey , as a pupil or colleague , and to some extent they formed a fairly distinctive group of conservative libertarians .
3 Yet the schools in which this coming together of parent and teacher in the service of children occurred had immense benefits .
4 One of the music schools which Mr Dorman visited had 2,100 pupils .
5 The equaliser Darlington 's endeavour deserved came two minutes before the break .
6 Indeed certain specimens of O. abyssicola studied showed intermediate characters between the two .
7 Freud had always supposed that the various forms of innate behaviour he explored had biological bases to them .
8 Out popped a very strange gentleman from this aircraft that I noticed had American markings , but I still did not know what the aircraft was , I had a vague idea but I was not sure .
9 He got hitched fifteen years ago to some fashion model .
10 The Iraqi government submitted a 300-page report which it claimed gave full details of its arms of mass destruction .
11 He was like a young and virile counterpart of Holger Danske , one of Denmark 's greatest mythical heroes , whom tradition decreed repelled all invaders in the early Viking age before falling into a deep sleep .
12 But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street , watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it .
13 None of the organisations we contacted had large ranges to choose from but they might be able to help you out with information charts and publicity posters for a small or no charge .
14 which you decided had some prospects of being reclaimed .
15 ‘ No regular soldier I ever knew wore cross bandoleers , or had long hair held back by a headband .
16 One week he he broke the record , he pulled f He brought brought forty tubs down and then the following week he got killed and he 'd only got seven on .
17 The particular portfolio I saw had twenty-seven etchings many being straight-forward views of Ambleside and elsewhere but included were prints of ‘ Oak trees in Rydal Park ’ , of ‘ Yew tree in Patterdale churchyard ’ and ‘ Birch trees in Coom Gill ’ .
18 At night a light had to be on all the time and Blake 's prison clothes had to be placed outside his cell while , during the day , the clothes he wore had distinctive patches of coloured cloth on them to show that he was on the escape list .
19 Here we had a man who we knew had serious problems that constituted a danger to himself and others , and we sat back , simply because we were waiting for him to admit he had a problem . ’
20 The members of it I knew had all sorts of behaviour , public and private .
21 Two years ago , barely two-thirds of top businesses questioned had such policies .
22 Three of them he thought had special gifts but five were " dangerous " .
23 What Meredith Jones did took some months and what he did was unprecedented .
24 Both newspapers he bought had big articles on the murder of Nicola Sharpe .
25 Second , the solution they sought had serious implications for civil liberties since sections would effectively deprive individuals of their liberty .
26 Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him .
27 Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks .
28 Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today .
29 Only last week , the last time I sat in court er there was an instance of one individual who had had twelve cautions in a period of eight months er he was still a youth so his name obviously can not be divulged , erm and it 's not only the cautions , I wonder how many warnings he 'd received as well .
30 peasant and that that had had adverse consequences in terms of maybe economic output , certainly in terms of mobilization , certainly in terms of , of political effect on , on the middle peasant and therefore there had to be the , the correcting bit to this and that correction comes either very late forty seven but particularly early nineteen forty eight when the excesses of the , the campaigns and excesses against the middle peasants have to be , be corrected and there are very clear statements from Mao that the middle peasant must not be encroached upon .
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