Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , the women in the study had spent their wages on food , items for the children or had saved some money while their husband 's wages were spent on larger bills . |
| 2 | The obstacles included reduction of potential search areas as a result of house-building , roadworks and other developments ; anti-detectorist propaganda spread by professional archaeologists ; and ( most disheartening of all ) news that other detector owners had already searched these obviously attractive sites or had reached exclusive arrangements with their landowners . |
| 3 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 4 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 5 | Our intention was to ensure that genuine cases could be dealt with properly , such as those where the claimant had contributed or had produced fresh evidence that was relevant to a particular decision . |
| 6 | The implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |
| 7 | Perhaps the pilot had been delayed , or had experienced some difficulty in finding a taxi at the station . |
| 8 | The control under the Act covered all users of water , apart from those taking town supplies , whether they were pumping from a river or had installed extensive catchment works at their own expense . |
| 9 | A whole new language , but one that translated meant enormous fun . |
| 10 | Mo may just not care what gets said about the Company — it 's all the new team now — as long as he is n't caught saying it himself And if he gas blamed for some dirty work that got started fifteen years ago — and I doubt he was directly responsible ; he was too senior then — how much does it hurt him now ? |
| 11 | Kathleen knew it was only a case of stalling for time , but every day that passed brought new understanding of this enigmatic man who had captured her heart . |
| 12 | The evidence that emerged reflected little credit upon von Keller . |
| 13 | In the absence of clear evidence of this nature , the court is likely to infer that the squatter neither had had nor had claimed any intention of asserting a right to the possession of the land … |
| 14 | One or other is spoken by many more individuals than had learned either language at home as children . |
| 15 | Simple laboratory tests were able to show the acutely toxic effects of large doses of organochlorines , but it took years for high concentrations to accumulate in belugas that had consumed large quantities of lightly-contaminated food . |
| 16 | ‘ You remember you asked me to see if I could find out who it was that had sent that news item about Leila in to Al-Liwa . ’ |
| 17 | Everything changed in the late summer of 1958 when I went to " the convent " , Elmwood , my senior secondary school , and began to lose sight of all these children , now separated by age or by the hurdle of the " qualie " that had kept some back and relegated them to the junior secondary where school ended at fifteen , divided girls from boys and clever from less clever . |
| 18 | It was statistical analysis of trends in admissions to and discharges from mental hospitals that had led central government to plan for the redundancy of the hospitals . |
| 19 | A preliminary investigation is shown that uses a small scale statistical analyser to process text that had caused great problems for the rule-based system . |
| 20 | The polytechnics were having to carry into the 1970s a defence and assertion of their particular — though not necessarily homogeneous — values and procedures , and in doing so made necessary a constant reaffirmation of the vocational or service roles that had aroused fierce passions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as new institutions and new sectors had come into existence in many countries . |
| 21 | Was she implying to herself that she did n't want anything to spoil the new friendly relationship that had arisen that evening ? |
| 22 | In the taxi that had waited all evening in the piazza for them , the Captain glanced sideways at the point of glowing ash and said politely , ‘ I hope I did n't take you away from something more important this evening . ’ |
| 23 | It struck a devastating blow at the presidency as an institution and gave powerful new impetus to the collapse of trust in government that had begun some years previously . |
| 24 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 25 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 26 | It seems that on reflection it was n't so much what Theo had said but how he had said it that had generated such despair and fury in him . |
| 27 | There can be little doubt that it was the professionalism of Karajan 's music-making — revered by fellow musicians — allied to a range of truly outstanding performances spread across a vast repertoire that had generated this success . |
| 28 | And also , as he watched the boxer on the television , Boy began to think that there are two kinds of sex : the kind of sex where you say do this , do that , or you manoeuvre yourself into position for a particular kind of pleasure ; and then there is the other kind of sex , where you want not someone else 's body that had done those things the night before or the afternoon before . |
| 29 | Within the shortest space of time , they were walking into the lounge of an hotel that had seen better days but was still surprisingly well patronised ; by a variety of habitués , mostly male , and all , whether uniformed or civilian , contriving to give the place an air of distinction . |
| 30 | Like so much of metropolitan Europe , it was an area that had seen better days . |