Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company A , dealers on the Metal Exchange , knowingly assisted an employee of the plaintiffs to engage in fraudulent trading , the result of which was that Company A became exposed to liabilities of more than £6.5m . |
| 2 | Acres of newsprint and countless hours of air time became filled with elucidations on the new technology , some of them distinctly bizarre . |
| 3 | She stared down at the frothing white surf that slid past the ship 's side and fell into a reverie in which imaginings of her future life became mixed with memories of past days at Ballingolin . |
| 4 | The semantic net has been studied and modified based on principles of analogical inheritance . |
| 5 | In 1925 , on reading The High History of the Holy Grail , she realized that the places mentioned corresponded to sites in the Vale of Avalon , Somerset . |
| 6 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 7 | The island aromas also came tinged with scents of the dark unconscious . |
| 8 | David Harper , from Uckington , no relation to the twins , who 'd been with Rebecca , and Wisdom Smith , who was with Emma , both told the police they 'd jumped from bales of blazing straw . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , good , ’ said Garvin , ‘ I was afraid you 'd forgotten about things like that , with your recent preoccupations . ’ |
| 10 | A glimmer of sun , the first they 'd seen for days in a chillier than average English summer , was gilding the meadow-sweet creamy-white in the tangled hedgerows . |
| 11 | There were other acts by then like Morecambe and Wise and they were doing to us what we 'd done to others in our time . |
| 12 | They came armed with batteries of attorneys , British and American , merchant bank and investment bank advisers and the way in which their participation developed was immensely thorough . |
| 13 | At the time of interview , he had cut his habit down from 2 grams to 0.25 gram a day and was ‘ saving up ’ small amounts of methadone that he 'd bought in doses of 50ml at 5 a time : |
| 14 | Erm but if you translate that into er er into days it 's quite a substantial amount and er erm again in our plan we 'd thought in terms of a complete MOS design er where the input would be probably more on the checking side , than actual on the , actually on the supervision . |
| 15 | They 'd played with matches in their room , lighting a fire in the garden of their dolls ' house . |
| 16 | He put the back of his hand on each forehead and asked Nellie if they 'd complained about pains in the ear . |
| 17 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 18 | In this case , at least , there was no need to assume that the transfer obtained depended on changes in the distinctiveness of the cues . |
| 19 | It got rid of problems until the next morning . |
| 20 | He got rid of oppositionists by proposing some impossible task , and when they failed or refused would move their expulsion , anyone who voted against automatically expelling themselves . |
| 21 | A few dealers accepted the fines as a matter of course , especially as accumulated funds got spent on drinks for everybody in the local pub on Friday night . |
| 22 | Images of his past , his origins , became blurred by images of his present , his future aspirations , and the result was turmoil . |
| 23 | Actress Jeananne Crowley on Carlton Television boss Michael Green I CHEERED like mad when a couple of papers got clobbered with damages of half a million pounds . |
| 24 | The atmosphere became charged within minutes of their arrival and the day was spent in frantic dashes , nerve-shattering band calls , fraught costume fittings and infuriating sound checks , so by the time I booked into my Albany Hotel suite at 6 o'clock I felt exhausted . |
| 25 | The original plaster lay scattered in pieces on his death , it not being clear just how Rodin would have wanted it pieced together . |
| 26 | That teachers felt constrained in matters of display and layout by Authority guidelines ( Leeds City Council 1989d ) was confirmed in many interviews and questionnaire responses . |
| 27 | the play CD saw performed by puppets in the Marionette Theatre in Genoa . |
| 28 | And yet , people were gradually torn from their moorings , grew used to lives in which they saw things their fathers had never done and even they had hardly expected to do . |
| 29 | He wrote a pathetic letter to his lord , describing his condition in prison where he lay bound with fetters of iron and beseeching aid from the Earl of March to secure his deliverance . |
| 30 | Consequently , Reagan , in looking for support from conservative Republicans , ran up against the reality that many of those same people felt bound by obligations to Nixon , who duly won the nomination on the first ballot at the Convention . |