Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What kind of accommodation and and equipment and that did you need for the hen did you just big henhouse |
| 3 | Several people who attended have reported a fierce clash between Mr Gorbachev and hard-liners and some said he offered to step down . |
| 4 | I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together . |
| 5 | In 1720 he speculated successfully in South Sea stock , and this enabled him to purchase an estate in East Sheen and a town house at Queen 's Square , and to consider retiring from business . |
| 6 | The peculiar quality of Tamm 's work was that he recorded individual plants , shoots or rosettes , within his populations and this enabled him to follow the fates of individual plant units ( often tillers or ramets ) rather than to study the grosser vegetational change that was the aim of many others who set up permanent quadrats . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And this revealed he had fled from Ford Open Prison in Sussex in 1978 — while serving three years for conspiracy to steal and forgery . |
| 9 | The rationale behind Laura 's views was that her heart was in Wales , or , more specifically , in the factory in Wales , and this obliged her to do everything within her power to maintain that factory at full capacity . |
| 10 | Some knew about the various methods of pain relief available , but others had no idea at all , and this made them feel even less in control of what was happening to them . |
| 11 | We were referred to as ‘ sinister ’ and this made me see how little impact we had made upon the establishment and how much further we needed to go . |
| 12 | Then she thought of Angela and her beloved pony , and this made her jerk her head up . |
| 13 | Suddenly he was unsure and this made him feel afraid . |
| 14 | In the early 1900s she began her research on the formation of sand ripples on the seashore caused by the oscillatory movement of water , and this led her to develop the ‘ Ayrton fan ’ in 1915 , a hand-operated device for expelling poisonous gases from the trenches . |
| 15 | She had also had other family difficulties and this led her to feel increasingly depressed and isolated , and to her abuse of alcohol and drugs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It highlighted the urgent need to develop less-damaging methods of transport and this led us to form an expert working party under the chairmanship of Stuart Cole , a transport policy research consultant from the University of North London , who is familiar with the Welsh transport system . |
| 18 | The reason for this was that they had a different view of tradition from the locals and this caused them to turn to ‘ progressivist ’ ideas and to new ventures put forward by planners in order to effect an entry upon the local political scene . |
| 19 | A man in the crowd that was watching , kicked Underhill on the head and this caused him to release his hold . |
| 20 | As a result it was accepted by the 1630s that English colonies could take most decisions for themselves , and this meant they developed the institutions which , over the course of time , grew in a way that enabled them to become self-governing and then independent by stages which could be so small as sometimes to be imperceptible . |
| 21 | On our return to Abergynolwyn we had a half hour wait to allow the Talyllyn 's vintage train to pass through and this allowed us to get a snack in the refreshment room . |
| 22 | Instead , they were left with their deeply-rooted faith in ‘ humanism ’ which was to be derived from citizenship , and this encouraged them to think in terms of the whole person , rather than training for specific trades . |
| 23 | In summary , the α-truncated RNA polymerases are unable to protect the final upstream helical turn of the promoter from DNAaseI cleavage in contrast to wild-type enzyme and this prompted us to suspect that the mutant enzymes had lost important contacts with the phosphates near the -40 region . |
| 24 | And this helped them to pay for knocking down and putting up walls so that they could move the bathroom to a lovely sunny spot off the main upstairs landing . |
| 25 | He had a very strong character , and this helped him to live his life to the full , despite his disabilities . |
| 26 | Wei 's severe sentence shocked many people ; he had become a dissident almost overnight and few believed he had ‘ passed on state secrets to foreign powers ’ , as accused at his trial . |
| 27 | We had a few drinks and all thought he seemed a bit of a laugh so we asked him to come back to the shop with us and have a bit of a sing . |
| 28 | Three counts against , then , and all urged him to resist this daemonic demand for sex . |
| 29 | Once more Reg Pybus was given command and many believed he had inherited one of the great Whaddon sides . |
| 30 | Whether by luck or careful management , Callaghan 's administration looked much more credible now , and many expected him to call an autumn election in 1978 to cash in on favourable economic and political trends and , against all the odds , snatch another term of power . |