Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her reluctance to go made her heart ache , but the truth was patent . |
| 2 | He rented me a projector , and because he wanted to retire sold his movies to me for a few pesetas a twelve-reeler . |
| 3 | Admirable as it was architecturally , it was a vast white elephant ; the £23,000 spent on its rebuilding was wasted , partly because the river it was designed to protect shifted its channel in the later sixteenth century leaving Camber perched well inland . |
| 4 | I have to date raised my idea with one of Scotland 's leading corporate lawyers ( a CBI SCOTLAND Council Member ) , a senior cleric involved with the Life & Nation' Committee of the Church of Scotland and the chairman of a major company , seeking their views as potential speakers . |
| 5 | He argued that Minton 's desire to describe outweighed his impulse to compose ; objects too literally reported were not sufficiently re-created . |
| 6 | In the face of many attacks , he continued imperturbably on his way — the dogs barked , but the caravan moved on — and this steadfastness seems to have aroused his critics to further ineffectual fury . |
| 7 | ‘ It would have been possible for one of w to have poisoned his food , perhaps . |
| 8 | The wolf and even the skull ( reminding ing one of the skull which was said to have given its name to the Capitol ) are good Roman elements . |
| 9 | Such approvals shall not be withheld or delayed unreasonably. must respond to any such request for approval within ten ( 10 ) days of receipt of same failing which will be deemed to have given its assent . |
| 10 | One person who claimed to have witnessed her collapse in the recording studio said : ‘ The poor kid just kept sobbing and saying , ‘ I ca n't go on , I ca n't take the pressure . ’ |
| 11 | Nominees who do not attend the party conference shall be deemed to have withdrawn their nominations unless they send to the secretary on or before the date on which the conference opens an explanation in writing of their absence , satisfactory to the party Conference Arrangements Committee . |
| 12 | WordPerfect Corp is thought to have withdrawn its support . |
| 13 | Rajdev Singh , deputy leader of the party in the Lok Sabha was suspended from the party and Baba Joginder Singh , father of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale , the militant Sikh leader killed in the assault on the Golden Temple , seemed to have withdrawn his support for Mann . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , in this case I do believe there is some value in tracing differences in the perspectives from which various groups of colleagues seemed to have developed their thinking . |
| 15 | David Thomson , who found the film ‘ gratuitous , misogynist , pretentious and repellent ’ , remarked about Hoffman that ‘ his adoption of violence at the climax is the more troubling because Peckinpah never seems to have explained its need to the gentle and perplexed actor . |
| 16 | ‘ When I was a child , I would have liked to have hated my father , ’ he told me , ‘ but I never could have . |
| 17 | It is sad to see that conservation bodies seem to have halted their attempts to purchase the key Cairngorms estate of Mar Lodge . |
| 18 | The Chapman I knew and observed over a decade and more seemed to me never to have outgrown his background , his appetites , his ambitions or his selfishness . |
| 19 | The Plowden Report recommended that ‘ Schools with an age range of 5–11 should usually have at least three classes , each covering two age ranges ’ , but by 1976 Lady Plowden , the chairman of the Committee producing the report , appeared to have altered her views , stating in a Border Television broadcast : ‘ Since the report I have come round to thinking that small country schools should be kept open because of the social value and because of the continuity of community involvement they provide . ’ ) |
| 20 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 21 | To have placed his name on the work of a loyal Catholic canon would have cast suspicion on Copernicus himself . |
| 22 | ‘ To whom , incidentally , am I supposed to have bared my soul ? ’ |
| 23 | In the spring of 1167 he led an army into the Auvergne , right on the eastern border of Aquitaine , in order to lay waste the land of Count William of Auvergne , who seems to have dispossessed his nephew the young Count . |
| 24 | It was a pity , that ; he would have liked to have heard her groan again , perhaps even to cry out as she had that night when The Man had played his games with her . |
| 25 | The shopkeeper , reasonably enough , went spare and while I could easily imagine what he was saying to Melissa , I would have loved to have heard her side of the argument . |
| 26 | Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire-based Uniplex developer Redwood International Ltd , which reckons to have trebled its exports in the last three years to become the leading Unix-based office automation system supplier , won due recognition . |
| 27 | After agreeing to give her a lift home from a discotheque , PC Peter Anderson was said to have stopped his Metro car on a deserted allotment , and threatened the 18-year-old woman by pushing his truncheon under her chin . |
| 28 | The nearest town to the estate is Strada — said to have received its name from an old Roman road — but Grassina is easier to reach and has a better range of shops . |
| 29 | In fact , towards the end of our week at Lerwick a rather embarrassing state of affairs had developed , where every other seafarer we met ashore seemed to have received our attention , the inevitable result of us all being weatherbound together . |
| 30 | I do not appear to have received your statistics form ( pink ) sent out with QT notes , which should have been returned in November . |