Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience has taught me to avoid those parts of a city with modern architecture . |
| 2 | Experience has taught me to avoid those parts of a city with modern architecture . |
| 3 | Conditions late in Æthelred 's reign could well have resulted in such a movement , for apart from the effects of famine and enemy harrying , those landowners with dependent peasantry may often have expected them to shoulder much of the tax burden , and that burden had been particularly heavy between 1011 and 1014 . |
| 4 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 5 | ‘ He may not have expected them to do that , ’ objected Noble reasonably . |
| 6 | The Royal has committed itself to increase that significantly in the next few years . |
| 7 | The doctor has forbidden him to put any weight on it . ’ |
| 8 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 9 | He had n't expected her to make this sort of use of the opportunity he had given her . |
| 10 | His mother , he knew , would never have expected him to walk those yards alone had she known that he suffered such atavistic panic , but she had n't known and he would have died before telling her . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 12 | Her history was not such as had ever permitted her to procure any but the meanest of genteel occupations . |
| 13 | If the early universe had been chaotic or irregular , or if the pressure of matter had been low , one would have expected it to produce many more primordial black holes than the limit already set by our observations of the gamma ray background . |
| 14 | By the late 16th Century the term was restricted in use to Londoners , who themselves further confined it to mean those born within earshot of Bow Bells . |
| 15 | ‘ The threat that has obliged me to lead this rather bizarre life has been international terrorism sponsored by the Iranian Government and hit squads , using embassies here and in Europe as resources . |
| 16 | The veteran foreign minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , has done nothing to allay this idea , bluntly denying the debt his country owes to the west by declaring , ‘ There is not a capitalist Germany and a communist Germany , there is only one German nation ’ . |
| 17 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 18 | As the Prime Minister has done nothing to change that policy in his first year , is not Majorism simply Thatcherism without the courage of her convictions ? |
| 19 | A report from Health Care analysts today has done nothing to change that . |
| 20 | Handsome , talented , and wealthy he might be , but he was also rude and abrasive , and she had done nothing to deserve such treatment . |
| 21 | I 've done nothing to deserve all your vicious insinuations — neither with Richard , nor with Adam , and if you ca n't bring yourself to believe in me the least you could do would be to grant them some scrap of integrity . ’ |
| 22 | But she has done nothing to deserve this . ’ |
| 23 | She 's done nothing to deserve this . ’ |
| 24 | You done somethin' to offend any decent person . " |
| 25 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 26 | That made me feel I must have done something to deserve this . |
| 27 | There is no denying that the present government has done something to influence both sides of this equation . |
| 28 | Many also feel responsible because they assume that they must have done something to bring this man down . |
| 29 | Well , as you said , the area got problems with labour , shortages of labour and the Chancellor has done something to help that . |
| 30 | What on earth had possessed her to volunteer that information ? she wondered numbly . |