Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it transpired that Galileo had not mentioned the 1616 prohibition when applying for his license , Urban felt betrayed on several counts . |
| 2 | ‘ Always knew you were one of me mates , ’ said Archie , highly gratified that things had suddenly been made easy for him . |
| 3 | She filled her days and nights with activities and fell exhausted into bed in the small hours , disappointed that Lucenzo had n't contacted her . |
| 4 | Kleiman found that shadowing produced only moderate interference with judgements about the meanings of individual words when they were presented in pairs , whereas rhyming judgements were impaired . |
| 5 | After 26 pages of judgment , Ferris J found that Tillson had successfully possessed the land adversely before the 1983 acknowledgement of the paper owner 's title . |
| 6 | One recent population study found that depression did not precede the eating disorder , although it did correlate with onset . |
| 7 | We found that researchers had often been guilty of assuming male dominance . |
| 8 | Oden found that Sweden imported far more pollution than it exported because of the prevailing winds . |
| 9 | They found that speaking interfered selectively with the right hand only under certain conditions . |
| 10 | Lomas and Kimura ( 1976 ) repeated this experiment using different manual tasks and found that speaking interfered selectively with the right hand only under certain conditions . |
| 11 | The Court acknowledged that third parties could accept treaty obligations informally , but found that Germany had not ‘ unilaterally assumed the obligations of the Convention ; or … manifested its acceptance of the conventional regime or … recognised it as being generally applicable to the delimitation of continental shelf areas . ’ |
| 12 | When I checked in Who 's Who I found that Jenner held down a post for several years at David 's old university . |
| 13 | They found that gearing did not significantly increase the overall cost of funds to the firm . |
| 14 | We found that ministers had solemnly undertaken not only to repair The Grange , but also to open it to the public . |
| 15 | Surprisingly , however , he found that sentences took longer to understand when they were preceded by a context than when they were not preceded by a context . |
| 16 | Molinari and Foulkes found that subjects woken up following bursts of eye movement activity reported more vivid dreams than when woken up following intervals of REM sleep in which the eyes had been still . |
| 17 | Then an on-road study found that drivers did indeed recall more central details than would be expected from risky situations . |
| 18 | He found that growth did not occur in cultures infected with the mould Penicillium glaucum . |
| 19 | The designers found that W performed significantly better than P. They write : |
| 20 | Gilbert and Ward found that renters made up 36.4 per cent of their sample of inhabitants of spontaneous housing settlements in Bogota , 12.7 per cent of those in Mexico City and 4.5 per cent in Valencia ( Gilbert and Ward 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Although Stephen 's trips to the mills became less frequent as he appointed capable managers , the farms on the estate and the timber business still took a great deal of his life and Tamar found that time hung heavily . |
| 22 | Later I found that Mains did not want me watching his team train ‘ because I knew too much about rugby ’ and would tell the opposition of his plans . |
| 23 | She found that Margaret carried everywhere with her a writing pad and a felt-tipped pen . |
| 24 | A Countryside Commission survey found that walkers had only a one in three chance of completing a two mile walk along rights of way . |
| 25 | On all four they found that tolerance increased nationally in the four decades after the Second World War . |
| 26 | I went along to the dining car where I found that Zak had already positioned some of the actors at the tables for the cocktail-hour double-length scene . |
| 27 | The Middle East Economic Digest of May 4 reported that Hrawi reacted cautiously to Geaga 's offer in order " to avoid being put in a situation in which his troops could be compromised " . |
| 28 | The International Herald Tribune of Nov. 25 reported that Iraq had secretly exported small quantities of refined oil products to Lebanon and Turkey to help pay for food . |
| 29 | The Financial Times of June 18 reported that GCC states along with Egypt and Syria had finalized an agreement based on the Damascus Declaration [ see pp. 38116-17 ] to supply ground forces to protect Kuwait after the withdrawal of Western troops [ see p. 38213 ] . |
| 30 | The Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) reported that Hammadi had also been dropped as a member of the Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ) after failing to be re-elected to the party 's regional command . |