Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases I had to accept that information given to me to help me understand problems of academic publishing was to remain confidential , but once credibility had been established the publishers were very helpful . |
| 2 | At the rear of many French houses I had noticed several rabbit-hutches containing the largest rabbits I had ever seen , certainly larger than anything in Britain . |
| 3 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 4 | To my eyes the new pair of partridges were indistinguishable from any of the other birds I had seen that day , but the rest of the audience clearly thought otherwise . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , after about six months I had saved several thousand dollars and decided to spend a few weeks drifting across the country to the West Coast . |
| 6 | On April 22 Rauf Denktash obtained 67.5 per cent of the vote to be re-elected President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC , recognised only by Turkey ) , with relatively few voting for candidates of opposition parties which wanted to offer more concessions to the Greek Cypriots . |
| 7 | Based on the 1984 Peace and Friendship Treaty , which created the framework for settling the border disputes which had brought both countries to the brink of war in 1978 [ see p. 32781 ] , the agreement covered 22 points of dispute . |
| 8 | as if to prove that he is in earnest , God immediately afflicts the spies who had caused such panic among the people with the plague . |
| 9 | they were on about that they ship them abroad and th , they were interviewing a lad in London he said oh , he used to get up in the morning and er go down to the phone box and phone this contact they know and he 'd tell you what cars you wanted pinching this day and they pinch them to order ! |
| 10 | The remaining 69 seats were allocated according to votes cast for the national lists of the 27 parties who had collected enough signatures to be eligible . |
| 11 | The Express and the Mail saw the Empire Crusade as a means of uniting the Empire by encouraging free trade within it and both newspapers gave publicity and financial support to those by-election candidates who promised to uphold that line in Parliament . |
| 12 | Pairs of syllables carefully synchronised were then presented dichotically to subjects who had to report both syllables on each trial . |
| 13 | The measure of previous knowledge here is the percentage of the 30 subjects who reported knowing that junction at least moderately well previously . |
| 14 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 15 | the supporters who had exercised such decorum for so long at last gave vent to their true feelings . |
| 16 | American fishkeepers who had maintained this fish had a somewhat different view . |
| 17 | After all the Spartans were said to be relatives of the Sabines who had given many wives and some kings to the Romans . |
| 18 | Then after two or three months she had had enough so she did n't give her pay packet in at all . |
| 19 | Two thirds of all the teenagers we interviewed agreed that sex education at school missed out too much . |
| 20 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |
| 21 | And so me brother and I , who was a twin , were put into the choir as probationers , like today 's police force , and after twelve months we 'd passed all the necessary tests for the vicar and became chororists with the choir and graduated through it . |
| 22 | The land they tilled and the animals they raised absorbed most of their working hours . |
| 23 | As princely chanceries evolved across West Francia , their output was welcomed by the population at large because the set formulae they employed offered some assurance of authenticity . |
| 24 | In the centre the earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows , and there was a narrow , regular hole , about the same size as one of the carrots they had carried that morning . |
| 25 | Around the huts he had avoided all contact with her and although they stood side by side listening to her husband , he did nothing to acknowledge her existence . |
| 26 | I 've proved that , yes — ’ in the words he 'd used that very morning ‘ — even Bluebeard has to take time off . |
| 27 | After three months he had written most of this work and was well enough to return to his beloved Kidderminster . |
| 28 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 29 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 30 | From the other side , the British scheme ran into objections from the neutral states which wanted to avoid both the close integration of the Six and military entanglements within NATO . |