Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd got just tuppence ha'penny in his pocket for his beer , when they found him . ’ |
| 2 | If the Government had given away Hampshire Bus and the assets had then been sold for £2 , 1 million , the profit would have been the same to the buyer , and the loss to the public purse in real terms would have been no less . |
| 3 | Sketchy jumping had let down Country Member on a number of occasions last season but he fenced soundly this time , quickening well between the last two to take command . |
| 4 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 5 | The boys started up dumper trucks , a J C B and a caterpillar tractor at the site , and in just one hour they had caused nearly £50,000 worth of damage . |
| 6 | The real problem was that although Ernest Bevin and the trade union movement had swept away pacifist opposition , and won conference support for collective security for the League of Nations at the Labour Party 's Brighton Conference of 1935 , it was by no means fully committed to rearmament . |
| 7 | Alas that the RIBA 's garden design book had taken away garden architecture , for that encapsulates so much characteristic of the Regency . |
| 8 | Some had sons working at home , but on others the sons had taken on contract work to bring in additional ( much needed ) income . |
| 9 | Jay had taken up situationist sculpture , and eased herself half upright to look at yesterday evening 's achievement . |
| 10 | He first noticed a young boy early one summer , about a year or so after he had taken over Entwhistle Halt . |
| 11 | He was succeeded by his eldest son , Prince Hans Adam , who had taken over executive authority in 1984 . |
| 12 | She was glad her daughter had stood up Alex Household . |
| 13 | Hewart had held both Law Officer positions in the post-war Liberal Government ( although it should be said that his arguments in The New Despotism did not seem to trouble him much in that capacity ) and Marriott , an Oxford academic , also become a prominent Conservative MP . |
| 14 | If Nicholson had strolled down Sunset Strip , he would have caught sight of Dean at Googies or one of the other coffee joints where Dean would meet with Natalie Wood and Dennis Hopper . |
| 15 | b ] Abandoned burnt out vehicle west of Splash premises c ] Lothian Regional Council Road Accident Casualty Reduction by Speed Enforcement.d ] New Structure Plan covering period to 2005. e ] the installation of a pelican crossing on Lanark Road west of Baberton Crescent . |