Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the conference a successful effort had been made to invite informed opinion not only from the educational community but from many interest groups within Nigeria , an initiative which met with a splendid response and which led , with the help of some skilful chairmanship and competent editing to the production of a useful and sensible working document . |
| 32 | It was mainly the two women 's voices , cascading with emotions which erupted with a startling suddenness and burst explosively into the surface of life . |
| 33 | In the old days , local politicians fought one another to obtain the prestige , jobs and money which came with a nuclear power plant . |
| 34 | In doing all of this , we were in good or maybe bad company depending upon how you view it , for example Halla Burton had special charges last year of a hundred and eighty seven million dollars which compared with a hundred and eighty two million dollars of special charges the previous year and Baker Hughes similarly had charges of eighty million dollars and sixty million dollars . |
| 35 | DEC paid well over the odds for the shares — Olivetti says that 28.53m shares were sold to DEC at 4,547.4 lire per share , which compared with a lowly 1,340 lire price in the market at the time of the transaction . |
| 36 | They all agree that it was a huge creature , which shone with a strange light like a ghost . |
| 37 | Mr Berkley hurried through the early Sunday-morning streets , empty but for Catholics , car-cleaners and cats , wincing under the glare of the sun which shone with a brutal cheerfulness into his eyes . |
| 38 | He pulled on the refrigerator door , which opened with a slight squeak , and crouched down behind it to assess the produce on the brightly-lit shelves . |
| 39 | But after he collected a CBE he declined to be drawn into detailed discussion about the new BBC show which began with a healthy 13 million viewers three weeks ago , but is now believed to have dropped to around eight million and has been panned by the critics . |
| 40 | On a new ultra-smooth track , and in a race which began with a multi-car shunt at the start , he drove an absolutely perfect race , while Niki got himself held up in traffic by the inexperienced Mauro Baldi and could do no better than finish fourth . |
| 41 | This came as the climax of a well-balance programme which began with a lithe rendering of Weber 's Oberon Overture , fluent and energetic . |
| 42 | This document , written by Hornby , emphasized that the Council had set up a procedure for dealing with proposals which began with a detailed scrutiny of documents from the college and involved painstaking work by the subject boards , so that the Council ‘ might establish the standards of its degrees ’ . |
| 43 | Talks are also being held with various US corporations , including Ault Foods , as part of the export drive which began with a two-week fact finding mission to the US organised by Strathclyde Business Development . |
| 44 | Luckily for the future of the SAS , Stirling himself escaped with a damaged wrist — which had the virtue of stopping him from driving for while . |
| 45 | A barrage of punches which started with a swinging left hook left Clarkson on one knee and once the action restarted and Hardy picked up the assault , it was clear the fight would come to a quick conclusion . |
| 46 | Constance sat threading beads , old beads of Venetian glass , which fell with a faint , decisive click , each upon the other , glittering in the light from her Anglepoise lamp . |
| 47 | There were renewed protests in late May which coincided with a 10-day commemoration of the anniversary of the 1980 Kwangju uprising , a pro-democracy rebellion which had been brutally suppressed with the killing of up to 2,000 civilians . |
| 48 | To take a further example , suppose that a school had arranged a school trip abroad during a week which coincided with a Jewish religious festival . |
| 49 | His college had been validated under Phase 1 to offer courses for a Higher National Certificate in Information Technology which articulated with a Higher National Diploma and also two sets of Higher National Units , in Financial Services and in Enterprise Skills . |
| 50 | Dr Drummond said she was medical director of the Achamore Centre in Glasgow which dealt with a wide range of children 's problems , including sexual abuse . |
| 51 | Thus jurisdiction was infinitely fragmented ; and the confusion was increased by the growing influence and power of the Church courts , which dealt with a large variety of cases , from disputes about marriages to cases involving the clergy 's faith and morals . |
| 52 | A classic example of this was an action brought by the dependants of a US citizen killed in the BEA Trident which collided with a Yugoslavian DC-9 over Zagreb . |
| 53 | The trees had gone , absorbed back into the stone , which shimmered with a last remembered green , oozed a final sheen of sap . |
| 54 | The Jets responded with a 97-yard drive which ended with a one-yard scoring run by Roger Vick . |
| 55 | The haiku was one which ended with a downward cut , followed by a single outward thrust . |
| 56 | ‘ In the name of our love , forgive me ! ’ she whispered with a dry mouth . |
| 57 | ‘ They 're so sweet and amusing , but … well , they 're also pretty exhausting , too , ’ she admitted with a small sigh . |
| 58 | ‘ No , it is n't , ’ she admitted with a self-deprecatory smile , glad to keep the conversation impersonal . |
| 59 | ‘ The former , ’ she admitted with a wry little smile . |
| 60 | However , Alistair Clark , president of the Law Society of Scotland , which represents 6,400 solicitors , criticised the decision to allow banks , building societies and other authorised practitioners who complied with a statutory code of conduct to charge for conveyancing . |