Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was staggered they managed to get such a large mouthful in a relatively small mouth ! |
| 3 | Composite thirteen you recommended to accept all those in favour ? |
| 4 | In 1991 we decided to end this duopoly . |
| 5 | It was not impossible they planned to work some malign mischief upon himself and the gullible Mistress Sinister . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He realised how much he longed to wear that splendid sober regalia and take up a whip to drive a team of four horses . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry you had to hear that . ’ |
| 10 | Out of that she had to pay all expenses , including animal feed and coal , which left around five pounds a month for food . |
| 11 | After that she refused to shed another tear . |
| 12 | But in Summer those were dry we had to carry all the water then . |
| 13 | I was n't sure I wanted to hear any more , but Oliver had got hold of my sleeve again . |
| 14 | and then if you 'd been off sick at all you had to make that time up as well so it was about four years and six months I did there altogether . |
| 15 | When our chairman , Richard Newcombe , and I visited the N.R.M. York in July 1992 we arranged to have several documents , articles etc. photo-copied for the Society . |
| 16 | first of all we decided to do this |
| 17 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 18 | He was n't sure he wanted to hear that message . |
| 19 | In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby . |
| 20 | All the same , now she was older she had to admit that what he 'd done was n't so very terrible ; she 'd just reacted in an over-sensitive manner . |
| 21 | At one point he grew so angry he failed to blow any kind of a note on his horn ; he dashed it to the ground in a fury of petulance . |
| 22 | And when I was fifteen I had to take all this craziness on my shoulders , there was so much imbalance out there , so much excess . |
| 23 | Motion two nine nine you recommended to accept all those in favour ? |
| 24 | First they had to lend some maroon LX Club shirts to a Northampton side who had forgotten to bring theirs along , and then the students gave a lesson in speed about the field , quick thinking and teamwork . |
| 25 | First he had to quell any panic . |
| 26 | He says that at first he wanted to kill those responsible , but now he realises they 'll suffer enough by losing their freedom . |
| 27 | ‘ I am pleased he managed to give most of his evidence to the commission . |
| 28 | The court appeared to disagree with Goulding J at first instance in that it seemed to say that confidential information which can not be described as a " business secret " ( in the narrow sense of that phrase ) could not be protected by an express clause . |
| 29 | In particular it wanted to ensure that British nuclear thinking , planning , targeting and developments as a whole evolved along lines which were compatible with and were harnessed as far as possible to fit in with its own requirements . |
| 30 | Somehow or other I managed to learn these lessons , becoming anxious to please and to be praised for having pleased . |