Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And these were the positive ones and , remember , they come from within the ‘ old age ’ field itself where , incidentally , two groups reported they had retirement ages for their own committees . |
| 2 | The clubs helped them recruit supporters . ’ |
| 3 | Some readers expected us to specify sets of standard terminology about language . |
| 4 | ‘ The whole nature of that part of the market is that as soon as the insurers found they had claims , they stopped the product rather than trying to build the book sensibly , ’ says Caroline Blackman . |
| 5 | This may well be a pleasurable and interesting occupation but it will not in any way further the quest for the universal philosophy so urgently needed , unless those students and specialist authorities use the opportunities afforded them to serve humanity more widely and wisely than by merely producing yet more literature for yet more students . |
| 6 | BRIGITTE Bardot 's love for animals drove her to attempt suicide after an horrific cruelty case near her home , friends fear . |
| 7 | Her sister and two brothers taught her to play lawn tennis at the age of nine on the two courts , one grass and one shale , at Edgeworth . |
| 8 | But then he looked at Chen and saw how his friend 's eyes urged him to take Karr 's hand . |
| 9 | Somehow he had learned that tantrums enabled him to avoid work . |
| 10 | Thomas 's eyes forced her to take account of something different in herself and to begin to value it . |
| 11 | ‘ Stanislaus said he knew people in the camps who experienced satisfaction when they started to waste . |
| 12 | Only in books had she seen buildings as magnificent as those which rose up before her , and she had never , anywhere , seen so many people . |
| 13 | people who were not regular paper readers relied more on television , while Guardian readers relied more on the press ; but a plurality of every other paper 's readers said they found press and television equally useful . |
| 14 | Loyalty to the group 's famous brands helped it to boost pretax profits by 13.2pc last year to £316.4m from £279.6m in 1990 , although sales grew by just 2.7pc . |
| 15 | Parents used them to select schools . |
| 16 | For instance , his winged sandals helped him to steal cows belonging to APOLLO , and his wit ensured the stock walked backwards so that no trace of their movements could be found . |
| 17 | When he suffered a relapse , his parents sent him to see Nolan . |
| 18 | Thirteen out of 14 youngsters said they had confidence in the police . |
| 19 | There was a group of children in our sample who either because they could still remember harsh treatment at the hands of a parent , or because their parents had themselves ceased contact , deserted them , or showed no interest in them , had no desire to meet the parents or maintain a link . |
| 20 | After hearing two days of legal argument at the Court of Session on whether relatives could sue for damage caused to a foetus , the judges said they wanted time to prepare a ruling . |
| 21 | The gathering ended when one of the section shaikhs said he had business to attend to that evening , they should ask for 6000 dinars , and please would Muhammad al-Sharifi close the proceedings . |
| 22 | The commissioners said they denied Mr Stone 's request to use this floor for fear of disrupting museum visitors . |
| 23 | But in a recent annual survey of 150 top UK advertisers , conducted by sponsorship consultants Granard Rowland , part of Saatchis , 50 per cent of marketing directors said they believed sponsors should influence programme content . |
| 24 | Others found that workmates pressured them to challenge management . |
| 25 | The time I spent alone with her … those hours allowed me to gather strength to go on with my deception . |
| 26 | Leese 's ludicrous argument appeared even more bizarre , given his inflexible belief that acquired characteristics could not be inherited and that genetic endowment and not environment , culture or education determined behaviour ; when applied to mankind these ideas led him to criticize Spengler and other nationalists for seeing culture rather than race as determining human action . |
| 27 | The Japanese company 's Bluebird model , the first to be built at its Sunderland factory , never rated : dealers thought it lacked pzazz for executives . |
| 28 | Celtic 's 5–1 defeat in Switzerland still irritates Brady , who admits that not even in his playing days did he take part in a recovery of these proportions . |
| 29 | Although DNs said they applied compression bandages to 73 per cent of affected limbs , 35 per cent of bandages used were inadequate to reverse the effects of chronic venous insufficiency . |
| 30 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |