Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hampstead Unionists agreed to support one such fund by levying a guinea subscription from all members of their Executive Committee — a decision that says much about the composition of the Executive Committee itself . |
| 2 | And you got to know all these things , you got to know the peculiarities of what they liked best doing you see , and everything like that . |
| 3 | can be given a new and believable meaning , provided that this troublesome word ‘ god ’ and all its variations can be refined and enriched to embrace all those manifestations of good , whether from evolution or civilisation , that have emerged since the beginning of life and . |
| 4 | ‘ But there must be a point … when you 've hosed off all the muck and the glaze and the bits of overpainting and your musks of Araby have done their work and you get to the point when you know that what you see before you is what the chap would have seen before him when he stopped painting all those centuries ago . |
| 5 | Not that I do it , I mean if I tried to read all that stuff , I 'd never leave home but I mean they actually give a a an advice list which we can then comply with . |
| 6 | They helped to bring six more people to safety in the town of Ballycastle . |
| 7 | I recently tried resurrecting some former friendships and did n't get any response , except for one who turned up on my doorstep , glad that I 'd written . |
| 8 | The Nadder seemed to carry much more water that used to go under the bridge at a fair old pace . |
| 9 | Up until today they have been winning praise for the quality of their football but everything seemed to go wrong this afternoon . |
| 10 | Table 5.5 presents these coefficients , estimated using ordinary least squares , for exactly equivalent models to those reported in section 5.6 . |
| 11 | On the odd occasions I met him , I felt that he 'd adopted all these trappings to keep off a world with which he could not cope . |
| 12 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 13 | She 'd seen all those lips on television , glued together in colour and close-up , all that breathing and sighing and staring into one another 's eyes . |
| 14 | Ninety five year old William Wyatt from Didcot , in Oxfordshire remembered killings he 'd seen all those years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'd written all these books about sex and I thought he 'd know all these exciting things and I 'd just be so ordinary . |
| 16 | By early evening I 'd done five more flights and was beginning to feel confident steering the paraglider . |
| 17 | ‘ That was the forty-seventh time we 'd done those few lines . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah I thought I 'd got all those bits out , but thank you . |
| 19 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 20 | Well by this time it was ten to eight and I 'd got all these members were going to be outside , I was going to have to let them in and serve them and I was getting a bit frantic you see . |
| 21 | Walker told police he 'd bought two half bottles of vodka to drink in a roadside layby because he was depressed over problems at work . |
| 22 | He said you 'd had two more fax , one of them they just wanted a current catalogue |
| 23 | because I 'd had medical Yeah it was cos I 'd had all these operations . |
| 24 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 25 | ’ Maybe ’ , Mala said , after I 'd shared some these speculations with her , ’ it was just someone who does n't like you ’ . |
| 26 | As I struggled to follow her directions my natural curiosity overcame me and I asked her how she came to have all that wool and all those knitted garments which were obviously not for her . |
| 27 | ‘ The players seemed to have much less belief in themselves than I had in them . |
| 28 | If only I 'd had three more years . |
| 29 | Mr. Golding seemed to take much more care when bottling wine . |
| 30 | United had one more chance six minutes before the end when Martin Foyle did well to turn on the ball ; in the edge of the penalty area he hit a shot low and hard towards the corner of the net but it just drifted wide of the far post and United 's chance had gone . |