Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orchestration of Cabinet ministers in radio and TV interviews at the weekend seemed designed to damp down growing unrest among Conservative back-benchers about the quality of leadership . |
| 2 | We only caught her because she 'd forgotten to take off one of the tags . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd slowed to step around some soft drinks crates-the bar , although open , seemed only half-ready for business — and their arms almost touched as she came up behind him without realising . |
| 4 | I made beans , when I 'd finished sorting out this one I . |
| 5 | The Commission had taken seriously its constitutional role of initiating proposals , and seemed poised to take over some of the work load allotted by the treaty to the Council of Ministers . |
| 6 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 7 | Plans for the new terminus at Raven Square on the outskirts of Welshpool included station buildings … but the rebuilding of the Sylfaen-Welshpool section and the reclamation of land for the station where the Sylfaen brook had meandered soaked up all available funds . |
| 8 | White forces had intended to blow up more railway lines and workshops . |
| 9 | In the eighth century , as the Franks had imposed their domination over those they called " subject peoples " , Frankish kings had come to rule over many regna , not only far west as well as east of the Rhine , but beyond the Alps and beyond the Pyrenees . |
| 10 | On Nov. 18 , the Croatian population of the republic had voted to set up two Croatian communities [ for establishment of Serbian Autonomous Regions see p. 38513 ] . |
| 11 | Gran had been refused a bank loan for new guttering — because of her age , she opined huffily — so had decided to sell off some possessions that had come to her from her mother . |
| 12 | In the past the US had tended to trade off economic advantages for political gains , but in future it would become much more single-minded about its own economic interests , he predicted . |
| 13 | She had helped to pick up all the things spilt from the bag , but there had been that look in her eye just before — a familiar look , contempt , indifferently hidden . |
| 14 | About ten months later , in a report to an International Congress at Paris it was stated that the Spanish Medical Aid Committee had helped to set up nineteen hospitals throughout Republican Spain , some front-line hospitals and seventy-two ambulances . |
| 15 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 16 | The slaughter on the Somme and at Passchendaele had helped to bring about these conflicting pledges , just as a far more terrible massacre would in the second great European war virtually guarantee the creation of the Jewish state in Palestine . |
| 17 | Night had descended quite suddenly , and , as neither of them had bothered to switch on any lights , the house was in complete darkness , a darkness made all the heavier by the remnants of the storm outside . |
| 18 | Mendès-France , the Minister of National Economy , had proposed to head off impending inflation by cutting the money supply . |
| 19 | Mr Welsh said that in response to reporters ' questions he had refused to rule out any tactic because the party had not decided what its strategy on civil disobedience might be . |
| 20 | The information , at first , had seemed to open up new vistas . |
| 21 | Antrim 's former Bank of Ireland All Star had hoped to line out this afternoon against Tipperary in Thurles , but earlier this week he suffered a recurrence of a serious back injury . |
| 22 | However , I had learned to shake off any lingering discomfort quite easily after the initial shock to my psyche . |
| 23 | In the immediate post-war years there was an attempt to absolve the bureaucracy of responsibility for externally aggressive and internally repressive policies , by pointing out the ways in which bureaucrats had tried to hold back military excesses . |
| 24 | Dempsey had tried to take on two dogs that he knocked out his tooth . |
| 25 | He wondered what had brought Corbett north ; he had tried to find out all the way to Tynemouth but Corbett remained taciturn , so Ranulf became sullen . |
| 26 | Rauschning had tried to bring about some sensible appreciation of Danzig 's rapidly fading monopoly position vis-a-vis Polish trade and to effect a policy whereby the city would realise its unique position on the Baltic by quietly penetrating the Polish , Lithuanian and Russian markets . |
| 27 | They had planned to splash out hundreds of thousands of pounds on the champagne evening at a hotel in London 's Park Lane . |
| 28 | Royal College of Nursing members at the hospital had expressed worry over possible job losses and morale was said to be at a low ebb . |
| 29 | Economic activity , which had begun to lessen in early 1990 , contracted by 3 per cent in the final quarter of the year . |
| 30 | The Suffolk police had begun hunting up previous owners of Wyvis Hall and they had been alerted that a Verne-Smith lived in their area . |