Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 2 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 3 | A few thousand years ago , some violent explosive phenomenon occurred which hurled numerous bullets ( ‘ shrapnel ’ ) into the molecular cloud with velocities probably in excess of 400 km s -1 . |
| 4 | In the later pharaonic centuries Egypt found itself sacked several times by Libyans , Ethiopians , Persians and Assyrians , before being conquered by the Greeks under Alexander in 332 BC . |
| 5 | In my study , a white mother , previously married to a full-time skilled manual worker and now living on benefits , described her changed economic circumstances like this : |
| 6 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 7 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 8 | Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing . |
| 9 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |
| 10 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 11 | In the Tests I played I dropped three caught-and-bowleds and Don Tallon missed a chance behind as well . |
| 12 | As she ate she cast worried glances up towards the cupboard by the stove , where lay a small sack of potato crisps , some Liquorice Allsorts and two packets of biscuits . |
| 13 | Her long nails were pearly pink , beautifully manicured , and Luce noticed she wore several rings , one of which looked like a wedding band . |
| 14 | He noticed she needed two hands to lift the silver pot . |
| 15 | It seemed we needed thirty copies of everything , stamped and signed at least twice . |
| 16 | Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew said the RUC still had his full support and he believed they pursued all killers with equal determination . |
| 17 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 18 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 19 | Maud said that Leonora Stern believed it represented Victorian women 's fear , or any woman 's fear , of giving birth to a monstrosity . |
| 20 | This contrasts sadly with the experience of an elderly woman I met who suffered three bereavements in quick succession . |
| 21 | Well you got you got three months from the date of termination which you can take as effect from the twenty second of June to make a claim to the industrial tribunal . |
| 22 | If you worked four , you were worse off than if you worked three , you know , you 'd got three days on th er and you got you got three days dole , er unemployment pay . |
| 23 | A post mortem showed she had 55 injuries , including broken ribs and bruises to head , neck and body . |
| 24 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 25 | The hospital confirmed he spent 40 minutes having his injuries examined . |
| 26 | Miss Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said that tests showed he had 74 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 27 | Bowden gave a blood sample — because the breathalyser machine was defective — which showed he had 203 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood . |
| 28 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
| 29 | ROCK drummer Mitch Mitchell won substantial libel damages in the High Court yesterday after a book claimed he made racist comments to Jimi Hendrix when he played in his band , the Experience . |
| 30 | As we hopped we saw grey phalaropes , inquisitive little birds seemingly unbothered by our presence , happily showing themselves now that there was insufficient light to film them . |