Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 2 | That got me moving east fast , searching hard now for access to the quire . |
| 3 | This empowered him to send bailiffs ( county court employees ) to the house of the man who owed him money and had made no reply to his allegations . |
| 4 | This led her to shun alcohol and medical establishments and to follow a practical , independent , and disciplined life . |
| 5 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 6 | This led him to reject Marxism as a one-sided sociology , unable to deal adequately with the full complexity of society and social change . |
| 7 | This led him to accept work in productions that really were n't up to his standard and the increased bookings resulted in a massive turnover of dancers . |
| 8 | This made me lose track of his subsequent drift as I struggled to imagine how chess-playing came to have such a pejorative connotation for him . |
| 9 | This helped them to gain height and get power when heading the ball . |
| 10 | Surkov had quoted to her a poem by Zbigniew Herbert , and she 'd said this helped her to understand Poland more than anything else . |
| 11 | The other device I saw some time ago was a timing light for diesels , this obtained its triggering pulse from a sensor clipped to no.1 injector pipe . |
| 12 | This allowed them to take advantage of limited liability : the owners of the shares were not liable for repaying the firm 's debts . |
| 13 | This allowed me to select words from a series of menus on the screen by pressing a switch in my hand . |
| 14 | This perception was increased by the behavior of my father , who cared nothing tor appearances it this allowed him to save money . |
| 15 | Another discovered she had toothache one evening as she had been clenching her teeth all afternoon ! |
| 16 | A study in which the majority of the subjects suffered from mental aberrations of one sort or another required them to perform tasks continuously , and in isolation , for forty-two hours.4 Three of these ten subjects experienced actual hallucinations , and seven of them suffered perceptual distortions or illusions . |
| 17 | Some swore they saw tears . |
| 18 | It remains a mystery whether this meant he retained hopes that some deal could be stitched up at the Conservative tables in the Members ' Dining Room , or was simply threatening to drown his sorrows . |
| 19 | This enabled her to see Laura both as a warm and caring friend , but also as a difficult businesswoman . |
| 20 | Access to Tiree is not easy from Inverness but there was an opportunity before Loganair adopted their Summer flight schedules in April and this enabled me to link Scarinish in with my more regular Lewis/Uist/Barra trip . |
| 21 | Although Mike Marsh rescued the Anfield side from a shock fourth-round defeat with a late penalty , cancelling out Chris Coleman 's opener , this did nothing to calm Souness . |
| 22 | Most companies said they used the results as research , although a few said they advised workers that they were at higher risk in certain jobs than others . |
| 23 | Did you have a salty meal the day before that caused you to retain water , or was the last meal of the day unusually late ? |
| 24 | How much did they lose Robin ? |
| 25 | How much did we buy Kerslake for in the first place ? |
| 26 | So how much did you spend Saturday night ? |
| 27 | Nine out of 10 said it made sense to carry condoms ‘ just in case ’ . |
| 28 | When one of these died he renamed Wal-Mart 's dog food ‘ Ol ’ Roy ’ in memory of his pet . |
| 29 | Although the farming community did not perhaps appreciate that the ‘ transfer of the farm ’ was a subject susceptible to training methods they all agreed it needed attention . |
| 30 | The total failure of his anti-recruitment drive and the appalling condition of the Dublin poor drove him to join forces with the revolutionary Irish Republican Brotherhood . |