Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found that mixing each cubic metre of soil with 3 kg of Agrosoke reduced by 65 per cent the amount of water needed to grow sunflower plants . |
| 2 | ‘ Me and my sister and my uncle — my sister , who 's a scientist , right ? — we were walking along and we saw this light go across the sky , then it stopped and made this complete square , then it was gone . ’ |
| 3 | In it they found and pocketed several thousand pounds , the takings of the bingo hall , then left . |
| 4 | During 1939 it surfaced and held several public meetings in London of a pro-nazi or pro-appeasement character . |
| 5 | And he cried do you think she would need a worm and he held up a worm , but he came and put this poisoned worm in the mole , you know that 's what they did , they had er mole er worms that had doped with poison , you see and then they dropped them in the hole and that was the end of the mole . |
| 6 | Charity began at home , and , though there were larger claims on him in the world outside , what was the worth of his work there if he ignored and hurt those nearest to him ? |
| 7 | She imagined it might settle down if she removed her brassière , but what if Dotty noticed and made some personal remark about her growth ? |
| 8 | While serving in Zanzibar Rigby met and assisted several celebrated explorers : Sir Richard Burton ( who was to be accused by Rigby of withholding payment from porters and other members of the expedition to Lake Tanganyika — an accusation which was denied by Burton ) , J. H. Speke , and David Livingstone [ qq.v . ] . |
| 9 | In 1868 he became chief chemist in a sugar refinery at the Victoria docks , owned by James Duncan , with whom he devised and patented several technical improvements . |
| 10 | Hell arose and destroyed all that |
| 11 | Fletcher acknowledged that losing all four Tests on this tour , after the 3-0 series defeat in India , was of far greater concern than any of the four defeats so far suffered in seven one-day internationals . |
| 12 | Nat turned and shouted this garbled message to me and I hooked my dogs to a tree and went forward to talk to him . |
| 13 | Benson sighed and sipped some more gin . |
| 14 | Then the Shelleys of Michelgrove , rich yeoman farmers , arrived and built this stylish house in the early 1640s . |
| 15 | The two rogues , their blue eyes gleaming with pleasure , nodded and repeated some secret oath . |
| 16 | Russell nodded and sipped some more beer . |
| 17 | LEEDS opened and finished this Regal Trophy second-round game at Headingley with tries of such quality as to mollify their followers for all the dross in between . |
| 18 | It allowed and encouraged these local authorities to extend provision of secondary education , after the minimum leaving age , either by giving rate support to voluntary grammar schools , or by establishing rate-financed grammar , technical and/or ‘ higher elementary ’ schools . |
| 19 | And er I never heard or had any more ways than ordinary . |
| 20 | Suffice it to say that a Labour bureaucracy developed that accepted some basic tenets of bourgeois ideology more wholly than the bourgeoisie itself . |
| 21 | Laurence Gilliam of the BBC in London arranged and produced these impressive programmes and it was my pleasure and privilege to work with him for the Vancouver region for several years running . |
| 22 | During this time he developed and patented several new types of high-pressure steam boiler as well as making improvements to steam-tight glands , valves for pumps , and anti-clinkering fire bars . |
| 23 | I was so impressed with the variation of colours of these fish that I recently ordered and received another six different species . |
| 24 | When she pronounced us clean , I lounged and smiled some more , thought peacefully about the Frazillian fee , watched peacefully as Posi took us into Firstlight . |
| 25 | The new law of prohibition of alcohol afforded them marvellous matter for the pleading of the liberty of men and women against the tyranny of majorities , and they sang or preached several eloquent perorations in praise of freedom . |
| 26 | Charity knew that to protest any more would only undermine her credibility . |
| 27 | When I got back to Manaus someone said , ‘ You 've got the geography worm , Larva migrans , ’ and went and got some dry ice and killed them . |
| 28 | So they went and got some barbed wire and they strung it across this street you know , Street at . |
| 29 | Munro went and got another small whisky . |
| 30 | How would you feel if the boot was on the other foot , and he was suggesting he went and spent all that money going away with his foot-loose and fancy-free brother ? |