Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , the women in the study had spent their wages on food , items for the children or had saved some money while their husband 's wages were spent on larger bills . |
| 2 | The obstacles included reduction of potential search areas as a result of house-building , roadworks and other developments ; anti-detectorist propaganda spread by professional archaeologists ; and ( most disheartening of all ) news that other detector owners had already searched these obviously attractive sites or had reached exclusive arrangements with their landowners . |
| 3 | The 1977–81 material is thought to be essentially complete , except for the exclusion of 12% who had a previous history of malignancy or had undergone gastric surgery or who were given the drug for another diagnosis than a peptic ulcer related disease . |
| 4 | None of the patients were pregnant at the time of the study or had taken any drug which could potentially interfere with gall bladder motility . |
| 5 | Our intention was to ensure that genuine cases could be dealt with properly , such as those where the claimant had contributed or had produced fresh evidence that was relevant to a particular decision . |
| 6 | The implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |
| 7 | Perhaps the pilot had been delayed , or had experienced some difficulty in finding a taxi at the station . |
| 8 | The control under the Act covered all users of water , apart from those taking town supplies , whether they were pumping from a river or had installed extensive catchment works at their own expense . |
| 9 | In the absence of clear evidence of this nature , the court is likely to infer that the squatter neither had had nor had claimed any intention of asserting a right to the possession of the land … |
| 10 | And erm well we wrapped up a whole pile of paper for paper paper recycling and erm we mushed it up and the best of the stuff we put in the liquidizer and erm we put it in a tank and dyed left some stuff as it were and we dyed some other stuff green . |
| 11 | that she could could make the tea or something you know , him having put the cups out and everything and I I put the teapot there and said put two tea bags in it and she just |
| 12 | He was a very keen and accomplished sportsman and had skied several times before . |
| 13 | In fact , by then Reagan had served a valuable apprenticeship in the communications industry and had completed two terms as governor of the most populous state in the union with a GNP comparable to that of Canada and exceeded by only six national economies . |
| 14 | Private Macaulay had served with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment for 15 months and had completed six months of his tour of duty at the time of his death . |
| 15 | In his evidence Professor Gresham had said he had experience of bites by dogs and foxes , and had studied wild animal injuries in books . |
| 16 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 17 | King was back with his latest promotion this week … and had seen better audiences . |
| 18 | Her red dress had not been made to walk in and had seen better days . |
| 19 | He patted a paunch that had swelled considerably since Gentle had last seen him , and was testing the seams of his shirt , which , like him , was florid and had seen better years . |
| 20 | He had never wanted her to be given in marriage to Dom João , and had seen that gentleman 's non-arrival as a good way of calling off the match should Sara wish it . |
| 21 | But he had finally done so and had seen other eagles , each in his own cage , all mature , all seeming big and threatening . |
| 22 | Most pleased with their results among the major Old Master dealers were Hill-Stone Inc. of New York who had sold a Canaletto etching and had seen considerable interest shown in their Leon Davent ‘ Cupid with bandaged Eyes ’ ( Z.5 ) , their Schaufelein woodcut ‘ Wild man and family ’ — a rare uncut impression with the text beneath — and their beautiful ‘ Bacchus and Ariadne ’ by Vico , printed on blue paper . |
| 23 | To coincide with the launch of the Constitution , the government lifted the state of siege , imposed in 1984 in response to the violent activity of drug traffickers , right-wing paramilitary groups and left-wing guerrillas ; this had curtailed civil liberties and had given extraordinary power to the President to re-establish public order . |
| 24 | The architect had sited the house on the slope of a hill commanding a great variety of scenery and had given each bedroom its own special view . |
| 25 | A man of sincere , but unformed , liberal political convictions , he had been angered by the events of 5 October and had given medical treatment to some of those injured on that day . |
| 26 | In a House of Commons debate on Nov. 28 , 1990 , however , the UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd declared that Syria had made " energetic efforts " to facilitate the release of Western hostages in Lebanon and had given formal assurances of its " rejection of international terrorism " . |
| 27 | In this whole affair the clergy — even Winchelsey — had been unable to keep the favourite at bay , and had exercised negligible influence upon the formulation and implementation of the governmental reforms . |
| 28 | He – had lived an evil life , and had destroyed other people 's lives as well . |
| 29 | The SAS themselves had suffered no casualties and had destroyed sixty-one enemy aircraft , plus stores , petrol and vehicles . |
| 30 | He went on to say that he had denied that Pakistan was providing weapons and training for Kashmiri insurgents and had assured Indian leaders of Pakistan 's commitment to the 1972 Simla Agreement ( whereby the two countries had agreed to respect a line of control in Kashmir resulting from ceasefire positions at the end of 1971 Indo-Pakistan war ) . |