Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
| 2 | Stoddart quotes a great number of opinions on this subject : it seems that some authorities think that they may have been caused by a fall in sea level which meant that the reef flat became a barrier to water movement , so that surf became channelled down the outer edge of the algal ridge as it returned to the sea ; alternatively the spur and groove system may be the most effective form of baffle for dissipating wave energy and is caused by reef-building corals forming the spurs — the grooves , once formed , may of course be accentuated by scouring . |
| 3 | She 'd picked up the literary allusion immediately , and enjoyed those few seconds during which the man 's intensely blue eyes had held her own . |
| 4 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 5 | Back at the village post office he 'd sorted out the usual junk mail which never made it past the door of the shop and found that he was left with one real , honest-to-God letter . |
| 6 | The man who 'd turned up the sexual voltage after their night out , only to be found embracing his secretary at precisely the time they 'd agreed to meet today … |
| 7 | She 'd turned down the only chance she had had . |
| 8 | Yeah because you 'd watched how the other two . |
| 9 | If she 'd had only the clerical level of interface that she was supposed to have , she 'd never have found it . |
| 10 | Ross , who 'd taken over the industrial empire founded by his father , Sir David Wyndham , had been planning to develop and broaden the company 's overseas operations . |
| 11 | The difficulty factors noted covered both the general size of the number concerned and , more importantly , the need to put in spacing zeros to establish the place value of a digit . |
| 12 | Gradually a mixed bag of cossacks , exiles and peasants settled the area , and as the natives became pacified so the military flavour declined . |
| 13 | Lat searched his own eyes and saw reflected there the mingled emotions that haunted his mind . |
| 14 | Some twentieth-century vandal had ripped out the latticed windows of number seventeen . |
| 15 | And Joanna had sped down the outer stairway , crying and joyous at once . |
| 16 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 17 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
| 18 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 19 | Groups spoke of ‘ strategies ’ and making ‘ career moves ’ ; the jargon of the Harvard Business School had banished forever the Utopian cliches of Woodstock , and the anarchist ones of punk . |
| 20 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 21 | Mickey had rang up the social worker and he had taken the bairn . |
| 22 | Numbers were small ; but a final case study approach revealed that for people who lived alone , had no informal carer who could manage all necessary care ; and had a high level of cognitive impairment , the Home Support Project was likely to prolong home care beyond that of those who had received only the usual services . |
| 23 | The British Market Research Bureau had examined how the sexual habits of homosexuals had changed between 1986 and 1989 . |
| 24 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 25 | Ivan did not interest him , gossip did not interest him , he had given up the personal life . |
| 26 | Critics then and now say that Nonconformity did not create a new architecture after they had given up the old seventeenth and eighteenth-century meeting house . |
| 27 | Mark 's compensation and pension terms would be spelt out to him by New York within the next two weeks , after they had checked out the maximum terms permissible under British law . |
| 28 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 29 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 30 | The youngster had fallen down the steep embankment on the Colchester side of the station , injuring her back and legs , and was unable to move . |