Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This was partly because of the structure of the lexicon used which enabled efficient storage and search , and cut off non-productive alternatives at an early stage . |
| 4 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 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 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 12 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 13 | She wrinkled her freckled teenage nose . |
| 14 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 15 | He touched her face very tenderly and believed he felt warm flesh . |
| 16 | Maud said that Leonora Stern believed it represented Victorian women 's fear , or any woman 's fear , of giving birth to a monstrosity . |
| 17 | While they ate he made polite conversation , avoiding with care any of the deeper , more important issues that needed to be talked about and resolved . |
| 18 | I tell you what I noticed when you first walked in you got you got thick eyeliner on , that 's what I noticed . |
| 19 | A PATIENT who claimed she suffered severe brain damage from an allergic reaction to anaesthetic drugs was awarded interim damages of £50,000 yesterday . |
| 20 | He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg . |
| 21 | Mr Goldring claimed she gave 15-year-old Jonathan Jobson his diabetic grandmother 's hypoglycaemic tablets . |
| 22 | These have been included in the FRED because respondents stated they found similar material in the discussion paper helpful . |
| 23 | But Macoun was there during an unusually wet season , and when the first white settlers arrived they faced immense hardship until they developed techniques for coping with this semi-arid environment . |
| 24 | Each one of us was beckoned over to have a go when it was my turn I rushed over and put the tanks on I then submerged It felt strange breathing under water like a fish the bubble emitted from the regulator trickled up the side of my face . |
| 25 | Mr Lee claimed he had personal knowledge of a case in which a person had bought and sold council houses on four occasions . |
| 26 | Quelch claimed he had verbal consent from the NRA . |
| 27 | In his libel action seeking aggravated damages , Donovan claimed he suffered serious injury to his professional and personal reputation , considerable distress and embarrassment and that the article implied he was guilty of gross hypocrisy and deceit by denying that he was homosexual . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |
| 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 . |