Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Simon gained valuable site experience which helped him to gain chartered engineer status . |
| 32 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 33 | The centre helped him to get professional help . |
| 34 | Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 35 | In an added postscript , Mr Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 36 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |
| 37 | He used it to attack paternalistic officialdom and to articulate demands for social progress : ‘ I 'd tell people to forget their old ordinary life because ultimately , anyhow , we 'll either have a better life than that , or bust . ’ |
| 38 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |
| 39 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 40 | In fact the canopy is deliberately being kept up whatever the weather for ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ , because the company found it has acoustic properties and projects sound out to the audience . |
| 41 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 42 | The patients were asked how easy they found it to maintain good control . |
| 43 | At different times in the week , the teachers found themselves taking different roles . |
| 44 | Speech and Drama teachers found themselves gaining unexpected support from ‘ the authority ’ . |
| 45 | With Simon Smith newly-installed on the drum stool , they kept up the relentless touring pace in 1988 and found themselves playing sizeable venues like London 's Town And Country Club . |
| 46 | These ‘ pull ’ factors operated with particular force in the post-Second World War period as many of the European countries began to reconstruct and expand their economies at a rapid rate and found themselves suffering acute labour shortages which could only be relieved by the employment of foreign workers . |
| 47 | The Christian Social Union ( CSU , part of Kohl 's coalition government ) and organizations specifically representing the 12,000,000 Germans who fled what became Polish territory after 1945 , had called for the treaty to include a " right of return " , and for German " topographical designations " to have official status in the traditional settlement areas of the German minority in Poland . |
| 48 | It was not entirely by chance that soon afterwards I found myself discussing historic family houses in central London with my 90-year-old friend Monsignor Gilbey . |
| 49 | As he talked , he faded into an outline and I found myself beating folded wings and saying , Oh , quack quack quack quack . |
| 50 | Eck , however , made his way to Rome and got himself appointed papal nuncio . |
| 51 | But he took charge of men ; organized them ; persuaded or inspired or commanded them to endure incredible things . |
| 52 | then I noticed them exchanging terse remarks every time my man was facing . |
| 53 | A key change was to ‘ remove that part which the Bar told me implied undue interference by the Lord Chancellor , as a minister of the Crown , with the processes of justice . |
| 54 | This caused me to regrade double jacquard . |
| 55 | As I opened the case I heard a groaning , splintering noise , which caused me to experience extreme pain as the bridge flew off and whacked me on the side of the head ! |
| 56 | Villa had always been in command , but a combination of poor finishing and fine goalkeeping by David Seaman prevented them taking full advantage . |
| 57 | A massive security operation has been mounted in the city and United Nations offices in New Delhi have cancelled visits by foreign staff , banned field trips by local personnel and advised them to avoid crowded places . |
| 58 | Spenser certainly found ready contemporary imitators , most noticeably among fellow poets such as Barnabe Rich or Sir John Davies whose interest in Irish affairs also provoked them to write political tracts . |
| 59 | Following the appointment of the first Minister of Town and Country Planning in 1943 , the government committed itself to create National Parks . |
| 60 | Accepting that contracted beds are a cost-effective , client-oriented solution , the Medway Health Authority committed itself to inspect nursing homes , monitoring standards and promoting good practice through a contractual process in addition to the statutory inspection and registration requirements . |