Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes you 're right I 'd forgotten that boat trip . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry I had to throw old Rex to the wolves back there , ’ he said , without a trace of conviction . |
| 3 | The houses have one or two storeys , and are often very long — the largest I visited having twenty-four arched french windows in a row . |
| 4 | Prior to this I had used many strange concoctions for the hopeful parents to swim in , even a brew made with oak leaves . |
| 5 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 6 | Foreign investment in India remained at a low level during the 1980s when compared with similar international investment elsewhere in south and south-east Asia , despite the introduction of liberalization measures in 1985-86 which had boosted industrial investment and output . |
| 7 | After this she began to hear strange sounds and melodies ‘ that she could not well hear what a man said to her at that time , unless he spoke the louder . |
| 8 | Despite this she continued to wheeze daily and thought that her inhalers were of no benefit . |
| 9 | So to get this You had to pay this , because when it came to the end of the quarter , you had to get your shopping out of that Cooperative , so that had to be paid . |
| 10 | The announcement that the society lacked the cash to fund its operating costs surprised few who had followed that institution 's relatively quiet descent into insolvency . |
| 11 | Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones . |
| 12 | Experienced volunteers thought that they should help with in-bureau tutoring ; among the few who knew what social policy work was , there were some who wanted to take more part in it and others who wanted more time to read in order to keep up to date . |
| 13 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 14 | I trailed up the hill after the others , thinking how different she looked wearing that stiff new uniform instead of her tatty little cotton dress and gym shoes . |
| 15 | Later this evening , we 've a true story of an American ex-con who decided to fight organised crime by himself . |
| 16 | For this we needed to win quick ball in the loose where Tordo was excellent . |
| 17 | This one seemed to drop that side of the table , too . |
| 18 | The downside is a familiar one : notchy and sticky gearchange , mushy brake pedal , rough and vocal engine ( this one had done 4000 miles yet would still not rev to the red line ) , wind noise at speed and , of course , the seats . |
| 19 | In Section 3.7 we managed to get simple expressions for the magnetic field far away from the ring and in the vicinity of the axis . |
| 20 | I was staggered they managed to get such a large mouthful in a relatively small mouth ! |
| 21 | By 1988–89 they had reached 3,825 million , with police manpower increased by 16,000 officers . |
| 22 | He had managed to acquire a brown mark on his right cheek and in the centre of his chin , and a dark smear had appeared on the front of his shirt : this he had made worse by diligent rubbing . |
| 23 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 24 | To do this he had bought some loudspeakers from the government and the sparks had damaged them . |
| 25 | By 1933 it had recovered all the municipal seats it had lost in 1931 . |
| 26 | By 1933 he had produced nine of these , bearing such titles as The Seven Stabs ( 1927 ) , The Professor 's Poison ( 1928 ) , and The Factory on the Cliff ( 1928 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Jimmy Armfield signed me for Leeds United , but when Adamson took over it was clear he had lost some of his motivation after being sacked by Sunderland . |
| 28 | In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction . |
| 29 | At 30 he had amassed enough knowledge of transcendental experience systems to make him a contender for the job of running what was regarded by many as one of Europe 's best Transcendental Operations Modules . |
| 30 | Since then , demand for board level products has increased , but the Sparcbook has taken off more slowly than Tadpole hoped , so that by September 30 it had sold 647 of the things , bringing in £3.5m . |