Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 2 | I quickly got rid of the tears and there Michael was , saying wonderful , encouraging things . |
| 3 | What if I got rid of the clothes and kept her stuff till we 're ready to do a boot sale with it . |
| 4 | We never got rid of the stains on her gear . |
| 5 | The team physiotherapist , Alejandro Koch , has been banned for a year because , in Fifa 's words , he was ‘ an accomplice of the doctor ’ , as has the kit man , N Maldonado , because ‘ he got rid of the gloves and jersey of the goalkeeper ’ . |
| 6 | He got rid of the sheets by putting them on a chair near the passage-way to the bedroom . |
| 7 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 8 | The White Paper was the first the public had heard of the discussions on full employment policy since the Beveridge report . |
| 9 | They told chairman Michael Croucher that it was only by accident they had heard of the proposals and they were concerned that no-one had told them . |
| 10 | But that had been before he had heard of the shootings . |
| 11 | Nunn had heard of the arrests , both at Holborn and at Bracknell , and guessed that Shorter was much demoralised and nervous . |
| 12 | He rode a moment , and then dived into the shifting , opaque water , which ran away from him in rays , like jewels flashing , opals you might call them , emeralds , lapis , rubies , sapphires , as Van Gogh had said of the stars reflected in that same sea in June 1888 . |
| 13 | ‘ They 'll quench you , ’ she had said of the whelks . |
| 14 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |
| 15 | Eileen knew what she had thought of the Arbuthnots and their kind , until she fell in love with Philip . |
| 16 | Listening to the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) saying that it was not the Government who had thought of the citizens charter but Mr. Herbert Morrison reminded me that old habits die hard — in particular , the old habit , much beloved of socialist Governments everywhere , of rewriting history . |
| 17 | I had thought of the Hobbses as shielding me like parents , but the nursery comfort was illusory . |
| 18 | She had no need for speech for she gave birth to — she uttered — The Word … ’ and , standing before the icon , so perfect in its gilded stillness , I had thought of the bodies of men , land-locked and mute , and I had felt sorry for them . |
| 19 | He asked what had become of the keys Ruby had used . |
| 20 | By s.2(1) the accused is not dishonest if he : ( a ) believes he has a legal right to deprive the victim of the property ; ( b ) believes that the victim would have consented to the appropriation of the property , if he had known of the circumstances ; ( c ) finds property , when the owner can not reasonably be found . |
| 21 | If the victim in the latter case had known of the facts , he would presumably not have bought the car . |
| 22 | Later , Fiat issued a statement saying it had learned of the arrests ‘ with great astonishment ’ but it is the second time the company has been involved in the ongoing scandal . |