Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they have never forgiven or forgotten what happened . |
| 2 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 3 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 4 | Although Charlie was still thin — now a flyweight — and not all that tall , once his seventeenth birthday had come and gone he noticed that the ladies on the corner of the Whitechapel Road , who were still placing white feathers on anyone wearing civilian clothes who looked as if they might be between the ages of eighteen and forty , were beginning to eye him like impatient vultures . |
| 5 | We just thought we 'd better come and explain what had been going on last night . ’ |
| 6 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 7 | Associations were formed and meetings held to get people organised and to keep them informed . |
| 8 | Whatever people like Page may have felt or thought they felt about the Vietnam war , it is difficult not to regard them as much its victims as its predators . |
| 9 | When he was sure that there was no chance of being disturbed or observed he undid the flap at the top of the bag and reached inside . |
| 10 | For me that was vindication for the disagreements I 'd had with Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson , both of whom saw the music and titles after they 'd been done and said they did n't like them . |
| 11 | She wished she had done and admitted she had not . |
| 12 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 13 | He wrote again , a careful , stilted letter , expressing gratitude for the help he had received and suggesting they shook hands and called it a day . |
| 14 | You will be amazed to find that a sentence which at first sounded terribly long and difficult , now seems much shorter , once you have conquered and mastered it bit by bit . |
| 15 | Kumi ( 22 ) , said : ‘ Many people have heard and read what happened and have offered us all kinds of help . |
| 16 | My comrade who had talked and named me had been tortured very badly . ’ |
| 17 | Earlier Mr Johnson had agreed and said he wanted more professional discipline . |
| 18 | When the meat had shrivelled and curled they waved the sticks in the cold air for a minute , unskewered it , blew off the coating of ash and tossed it from hand to hand until it was cool enough to eat . |
| 19 | Once or twice as a hand grabbed and missed it lurched and threatened to tilt the corpse on to the crowd . |
| 20 | Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it . |
| 21 | You think of women you 've known and wish you 'd known better , and you wonder what they 're doing now . |
| 22 | While the Triplane recovered and returned he closed in on the balloon . |
| 23 | Many of the rebels were arrested and shot which gave impetus to Irish Nationalism which , in turn , was much opposed by the Northern Counties of Ulster , who had Lord Carson as their leader . |
| 24 | A quick glance through the window showed his car still parked outside , but by the time she had showered and breakfasted she saw that a mechanic was at work on it , and half an hour later her doorbell rang . |
| 25 | Whether the love had ever been reciprocated or consummated he did n't know — though Steen 's reputation made it likely — but the new fact opened interesting avenues of thought . |
| 26 | It was saddled and bridled which meant , so Allen reasoned , that either its rider had been thrown in the darkness of the Waste and the horse had bolted , or that for some unknown reason the verderers had been content to abandon the harness with the horse . |
| 27 | A spokesman said they had been overwhelmed by the number of applications when the new disability living benefit was announced and said it had taken longer than anticipated to sort out . |
| 28 | Subsequently the subdeacon Riculf was tortured and revealed what lay behind the attack on Gregory . |
| 29 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 30 | ‘ When they told me the body had been mutilated and burnt I did n't think it was Brian . |