Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ the simple facts which the court has to find are whether the defendant 's conduct in fact prevented the police from carrying out their duty , or made it more difficult for them to do so , and whether the defendant intended that conduct to prevent the police from carrying out their duty or to make it more difficult to do so . ’ |
| 2 | But once you had found mutual ground for trust , responded to his dry humour or enjoyed his sometimes wicked pranks , the friendship could become deep and permanent . |
| 3 | Nor had he any direct connection with any terrorist organisation . ’ |
| 4 | I was not a trained publicity man , nor had I any professional competence in publicity media , and I felt the need of competent advice from someone expert in this field . |
| 5 | on your soul and laid you wide open for Hell . |
| 6 | He stopped above a man who was painting the superstructure of his boat and asked him how far it was to the sea . |
| 7 | I spoke later to Jackie , lifeboat secretary , and asked him how many of a crew he had to call on at any time . |
| 8 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 9 | For a while she thought that her visions had been a delirium , but then fell into an exhausted sleep when she received her sixteenth revelation in a dream which reassured her and made her deeply ashamed of her doubts . |
| 10 | Sycorax fainted , and Ariel bent her cheek to the discoloured cheek of the old woman and licked the salt that fell in her tears , and when she reached the cabin took her inside where the rush screens would keep the flies off her wounds , and made her as comfortable as she could on the ground , with fresh dressings on her burns , a cool soaked cloth on her forehead . |
| 11 | Flora 's laugh hollowed her cheeks and made her almost beautiful . |
| 12 | Someone , a man , began to sing an old Irish ballad , and the mournful strains of the familiar song filled the air with sadness , tugged at the emotions , and made her more determined than ever to get away quickly . |
| 13 | That took an hour , and made me so tired that I was able to lie down and go to sleep . |
| 14 | He 's left the priesthood now , but has a national profile which has lifted Labour 's campaign locally and made him instantly recognisable to many as he attempts to persuade them that he 's the new broom they need . |
| 15 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 16 | The summer conversations in Kissingen , the presence in St Petersburg of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , the greater enthusiasm for reform of Lanskoi at the Ministry of Internal Affairs — all these undoubtedly altered the balance of opinion to which he was exposed and made him more susceptible to reformist sentiments ; but he may also have been naive enough to believe that the gentry at large would follow the example of the north-westerners and welcome the measure he was putting to them . |
| 17 | The vile weather had emptied the streets , and made them particularly frightening ; She tried to forget her fears of the unknown in hearty cursing of the rain . |
| 18 | In Britain booming domestic sales of videocassette machines have brought the prices down and made them more attractive to institutions . |
| 19 | He believed strongly in the psychology of home territory , which invariably put witnesses at their ease and made them more likely to remember little details they might otherwise forget or overlook in strange or foreign surroundings . |
| 20 | Mannitol in the water lowered both osmotic and water potential , and made them almost equal , which is why the leaves adopted the form seen in air . |
| 21 | They also argued that the normalization of such images by SM groups acclimatized people to brutality and made them less percipient about the advent of ‘ real fascism ’ . |
| 22 | We managed to visit her on our way back , however , and she was very pleased to see us and made us most welcome . |
| 23 | He drew a clear division between the " free " world and the Communist world , and made it equally clear that if the Soviet Union tried to expand into the free world the USA was prepared to act . |
| 24 | The Abortion Act of 1967 changed that pattern and made it more useful to consider all the known conceptions outside marriage to observe their changing fate ( figure 4.12 ) . |
| 25 | And made it more black letter . |
| 26 | The EOC found that direct discrimination occurred when managers described the mobility requirement differently to men and women and made it more onerous for women to comply with it . |
| 27 | There had been a morning of heavy rain before the event and this must have reduced the expected numbers present and made it more subdued than it might otherwise have been . |
| 28 | At the time the experts believed that a previous transfusion sensitised the patient and made it more likely that a transplant would be rejected . |
| 29 | At the same time , there were other events which very considerably strengthened the lead from the centre and made it more likely that LEAs would respond positively to the government 's initiatives . |
| 30 | In particular it widened the gap between Labour and National Labour , and made it quite impossible for any reunion to take place . |