Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 9 | the supporters who had exercised such decorum for so long at last gave vent to their true feelings . |
| 10 | American fishkeepers who had maintained this fish had a somewhat different view . |
| 11 | After all the Spartans were said to be relatives of the Sabines who had given many wives and some kings to the Romans . |
| 12 | Then after two or three months she had had enough so she did n't give her pay packet in at all . |
| 13 | Two thirds of all the teenagers we interviewed agreed that sex education at school missed out too much . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The land they tilled and the animals they raised absorbed most of their working hours . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 've proved that , yes — ’ in the words he 'd used that very morning ‘ — even Bluebeard has to take time off . |
| 21 | After three months he had written most of this work and was well enough to return to his beloved Kidderminster . |
| 22 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 23 | The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view . |
| 24 | Principally , the ANC had asked for ( i ) the dismissal of the Law and Order and the Defence ministers ; ( ii ) decisive government action to halt violence in the townships ; and ( iii ) a ban on the carrying of the traditional weapons which Inkatha supporters allegedly used in township fights which had caused some 900 deaths since January , and approximately 10,000 deaths since September 1984 . |
| 25 | These were the groups which had suffered most from the dislocations of the war , and an element of class antagonism can perhaps be detected in their hatred of wealthy Whig financiers and rich local Dissenters ( especially the Presbyterians ) . |
| 26 | The European Community was born out of an unswerving determination that the countries which had fought each other in two terrible wars during this century should never be at war again . |
| 27 | During the second half of the sixteenth century , hundreds of medieval sculptures and carved images of saints were destroyed or removed , the colourful wall-paintings which had decorated most churches were whitewashed , stained glass was shattered or taken away , and the rood lofts which had held up the great crucifixes and figures of the Virgin Mary and St John were pulled down . |
| 28 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 29 | and and she said something about through her interest in North American Indians she 'd written this novel . |
| 30 | Meredith was determined to show him that she could do without arrogant bankers who 'd heard half a story and jumped to the wrong conclusions . |