Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the dying minutes the computer men rallied to net two in succession and CMS found themselves fighting to hold the one goal difference . |
| 2 | The bail arm button at the front is responsive and I found gets better with use . |
| 3 | We tried to solve this with management and supervisory boards based in the department but they were a long way from the boards of industry . |
| 4 | Now , when their findings came out that the cell there were cells that appeared to correspond to feature detectors in the real world , a number of theories immediately popped up which tried to take this into account . |
| 5 | so he said I did , I tried to make some in microwave and he says it turned out like sludge |
| 6 | The residents described feeling tired through lack of an undisturbed night 's sleep . |
| 7 | I 'd heard all about Group from Rosemary and it did n't seem to be my sort of place . |
| 8 | The Elms , who seemed to stand next in line , were plain and sturdy , with pale-ish bark for skin and a good deal of greenery . |
| 9 | She 'd forgotten all about Family Day . |
| 10 | PM told to come clean over claim of sell-off hitlist |
| 11 | But in the end we felt we 'd seen enough of logging and gum-digging . |
| 12 | She 'd seen more of life and death at twenty-six than most people would see in their entire lifetime . |
| 13 | Since everything seemed out of my reach I was reduced to making friends with the pigeons who were everywhere , and whose gentle murmurings I 'd grown accustomed to hearing . |
| 14 | Oh , good child , she teased herself , if only you 'd done this at school and art college , you 'd have got a first . |
| 15 | She imagined living alone in Sea House , being quite old . |
| 16 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 17 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |
| 18 | He 'd had enough of learning . |
| 19 | He often said he 'd had enough of living and was ‘ ready to go ’ was how he put it . |
| 20 | The annoyances , injustices , and setbacks from which it suffered seem small in retrospect , but they preyed on the minds of its members at the time . |
| 21 | It was as if he 'd crossed one of life 's bridges ; there was no going back , and the view was n't the same any more . |
| 22 | But I 'd woken rigid with terror . |
| 23 | So it was pragmatic but it could also fit into their ideology in that how , that if they 'd gone straight for socialism |
| 24 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 25 | Yet in other respects , as was mentioned earlier , anomie-based ‘ invention ’ theories seemed to have much in common with classical criminology in their assumptions about human behaviour . |
| 26 | God knows why , but she seemed to associate that with pleasure . ’ |
| 27 | We jest got to cover this with earth . |
| 28 | Somehow we got her mopped up and dried off , changed into dry clothes and made to look presentable in case any nosey parker in authority happened to look in . |
| 29 | Erskine sought to put this into reverse : forgiveness is there for all in Jesus Christ , who is the representative head of the whole human race , and faith is the glad recognition that we are forgiven and reconciled to God through him . |
| 30 | I suggested earlier that both exhibitions claimed to subvert ; that The Subversive Stitch at Cornerhouse sought to do this through content , while Out of the Frame focused on materials and techniques . |