Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes you 're right I 'd forgotten that boat trip . |
| 2 | Prior to this I had used many strange concoctions for the hopeful parents to swim in , even a brew made with oak leaves . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This one seemed to drop that side of the table , too . |
| 9 | I was staggered they managed to get such a large mouthful in a relatively small mouth ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To do this he had bought some loudspeakers from the government and the sparks had damaged them . |
| 12 | By 1933 it had recovered all the municipal seats it had lost in 1931 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’ |
| 16 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 17 | Composite thirteen you recommended to accept all those in favour ? |
| 18 | In 1991 we decided to end this duopoly . |
| 19 | It was not impossible they planned to work some malign mischief upon himself and the gullible Mistress Sinister . |
| 20 | When Jorge Serrano took office in January 1991 he promised to punish those responsible for human-rights abuses , yet the repression is as fierce and remorseless today as it ever was . |
| 21 | In December 1991 he refused to sign those parts of the founding charter of the Commonwealth of Independent States that guarantee respect for human rights . |
| 22 | The three principal figures in his demonology proved to be the Shah , Israel and the United States , and in a sermon against this trio in March 1963 he had done much to trigger the disturbances of that summer and the process that led to his banishment to Najaf in Iraq . |
| 23 | He realised how much he longed to wear that splendid sober regalia and take up a whip to drive a team of four horses . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry you had to hear that . ’ |
| 25 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |
| 26 | Out of that she had to pay all expenses , including animal feed and coal , which left around five pounds a month for food . |
| 27 | After that she refused to shed another tear . |
| 28 | Strange , Gina thought , how much their two countries had in common and how little she had realised that element of kinship before . |
| 29 | I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct . |
| 30 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |