Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found that using a Western model across cultures has potential . |
| 2 | Composers such as the late Luigi Nono , with the most exemplary of avant-garde pedigrees and a long-standing commitment to the Italian Communist Party , found that to package a political content in his music demanded more explicit dramatic support than contemporary thinking allowed . |
| 3 | WWF found that finding a cuddly plant equivalent of the panda was difficult , so instead it focused on the value of plants to mankind , particularly medicinal plants . |
| 4 | Most of the illustrations were drawn by Lancake ( forty-eight of the first hundred ) , J. S. Miller both drew and engraved a considerable number , while Mynde and Jeffreys appear most frequently amongst engravers . |
| 5 | She stirred as they entered and gave a creaking groan as she began to waken . |
| 6 | Together they designed and supervised a large number of contracts , including the Wye Valley Railway , the Guernsey Tramway , the Cardiff and Penarth Tramway , the East Worcestershire Waterworks , and Totland Bay pier , as well as acting as engineers to the West Bromwich sanitary commissioners . |
| 7 | They designed and built a new tractor mower and turned their former customers into competitors . |
| 8 | I caught and examined a good sample of these . |
| 9 | Charles winced and foresaw a painful visit to the field cashier in Lille . |
| 10 | Queen Elizabeth then rose and made a wonderful speech in reply , and proposed the toast of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London . |
| 11 | After other speeches condemning Ian Paisley , Terence O'Neill rose and delivered a long statement in which he made it clear that he regarded the defeat of Ian Paisley as a central part of his reforming Unionism . |
| 12 | Then he rose and swore a solemn oath to keep faith , to be true to his lord . |
| 13 | Apparently carrion , it moved and stretched a lean back leg , which turned out to be Stripey 's . |
| 14 | Here they built and established a walled city . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , Ven ! ’ she sighed , and adored him when he bent and placed a tender kiss on her forehead . |
| 16 | So — ’ He stopped and took a deep breath . |
| 17 | He stopped and drew a long breath and I stared at him and said : ‘ Are you serious ? ’ |
| 18 | But anyway the idea is that er the religion was , was suppressed in Ancient Egypt and because it was suppressed there , the people migrators went to the Promised Land , when they found the Promised Land there they stopped and founded a new , a new religious state , which of course is still with us . |
| 19 | He stopped and gave a little grunt of triumph . |
| 20 | We stopped and built a makeshift shelter to get away , as best we could , from snow that filtered its way through every opening to produce melt water that trickled coldly over us . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , he faced rebellion , possibly a challenge from a rival aspirant to the throne , in 761 when , after a three-day conflict , he defeated and slew a certain Oswine , who is otherwise unknown , at Eildon on 9 August ; and in 765 the annals record that he lost the kingdom of the Northumbrians at Pincanheale on 30 October . |
| 22 | She recognized a Mousterian and Upper Palaeolithic presence in Kurdistan ; in the Judaean cave of Shukbah she found and named a new Mesolithic culture , the Natufian . |
| 23 | He hooked and landed an enormous conger eel , whilst fishing from one of the boats in the harbour . |
| 24 | Luce surfaced and took a deep breath . |
| 25 | Even more valuable has been the friendship and help she found while attending a young women 's support group . |
| 26 | As a former category A authority , Westminster SSD is one of five the DoH categorised as having a high incidence of HIV . |
| 27 | Sergei Witte , the Tsar 's minister of finance , realised that creating an industrial base for Russia had risks . |
| 28 | Looking at the tangle of bushes on either side , she soon realised that to make a thorough search of the undergrowth was out of the question . |
| 29 | Another tract in the same Congregational Union series argued that to join a local church was , in effect , to join ‘ Christ 's universal church ’ , which was ‘ Christ 's own society ’ , not a ‘ private society organised by pious men . ’ |
| 30 | She 'd give that up when she pleased or die an old maid . |