Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She swallowed hard , dragging her eyes away as she belatedly realised where her wayward thoughts were taking her . |
| 2 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 3 | It transpired that what this man really wanted to do was to strangle his mother , a desire which was both socially and morally unacceptable and had therefore to be repressed . |
| 4 | A fresh , if unpromising , avenue of negotiation was opened on April 7 when the Prime Minister of Thailand , Chatichai Choonhaven , proposed that his Japanese counterpart , Toshiki Kaifu , host a meeting in Tokyo between Sihanouk and Hun Sen . |
| 5 | FOOTBALL : David Platt has pushed transfer talk to the back of his mind and promised that his only concern is helping Bari to avoid the disaster of relegation . |
| 6 | He promised that his new government would issue an economic statement early in 1992 . |
| 7 | Liberal leader and Premier-elect Ray Groom promised that his new government 's first priority would be to combat unemployment within the state . |
| 8 | I promised that his further education would be no burden to them , and that after the war , I would see to it that he received a free college education , which should not be denied him , but all I got was ‘ You take ‘ im , Mr Burton , you take ‘ im . ’ |
| 9 | A study of working-class girls by Sue Sharpe demonstrated that their main aims and priorities were to marry , have children and settle down ( Sharpe , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | But Miss Hemse maintained that his psycho-kinetic powers had bent her contraceptive device while she and her fiancé were making love as they watched him on television . |
| 11 | He always maintained that our later success was due to his initial coaching . |
| 12 | Both sides of the compartment were lined with machinery and metal boxes so crushed and mangled that their original function was incomprehensible . |
| 13 | Even the great German mycologist Anton de Bary doubted that there odd things attached to insects were actually fungi , and with some justification . |
| 14 | Of course I never doubted that your excellent police force would catch the real culprit , but it must have cleared your mind . |
| 15 | His tale was verified by another member of the party Hawick 's B international hooker Jim Hay , who recounted that his fellow Teri , Jim Renwick , had been so intent on chasing and tackling the electrifyingly quick Eric Rush that he had failed to notice a helicopter land on the pitch and it was only when they felt the down-draft from the rotor blades that they put on the anchors . |
| 16 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 17 | When the late Conservative administration did its sums at the end of 1963 it found that its future programme worked out at an annual rate of increase of 4.1 per cent . |
| 18 | Unix Expo had an independent survey taken and found that its 1992 attendees represent a hefty $10,000m in purchasing power for Unix and open systems : networking is the strategic focus at the exhibition . |
| 19 | Unix Expo had an independent survey taken and found that its 1992 attendees represent a hefty $10 billion in purchasing power for Unix and open systems . |
| 20 | Genoves ( 1959 ) , for example , found that its general shape in Anglo-Saxons was quite different from that in British mediaeval individuals of the same sex . |
| 21 | And one which found that its ambitious expansion plans were rather more difficult in practice than on paper . |
| 22 | When we arrived at Papillote , which had advertised itself as being ‘ in the rainforest ’ , we found that its flimsy buildings were half engulfed by the surrounding forest . |
| 23 | When the Rand study looked at five giant companies with Superfund sites , it found that their legal fees were only 21% of what they spent on cleaning up , and much less when only one company was involved in cleaning a site . |
| 24 | Many of the staff found that their closest friends still date from that era . |
| 25 | They found that their only means of illumination was the collection of antique paraffin lamps and that there was only one boiler — which worked intermittently . |
| 26 | Although the villagers of Zubaydat significantly increased their productivity through the introduction of drip irrigation , they quickly found that their real problem lay with marketing . |
| 27 | The experimenters repeated their tests , and found that their first results were indeed wrong , and Mendeleev was right . |
| 28 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 29 | Those who remained in work found that their non-working hours totally revolved around their heroin use : |
| 30 | The factory also illegally employed children , normally the sons and daughters of employees who found that their own wages were insufficient . |