Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present set-up I was comforted to know I held good cards . |
| 2 | This is in contrast to HWIM which designed individual interfaces for each of its components . |
| 3 | Clearly she had n't wanted Hugh to know she owned any property in her native country , but why conceal such an important fact ? |
| 4 | ‘ I only want to know who slashed that picture if you did n't . ’ |
| 5 | It is difficult to establish who published that document . |
| 6 | But he knew that for his expansion plans to work he needed two things : further capital investment , and a designer of genius . |
| 7 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 8 | Then I would much like to know what caused that explosion in the engine-room . |
| 9 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 10 | I 'm not going to do a match report either , I 'll leave that to someone who 's a bit more eloquent , and who 's got a better memory , I ca n't even seem to remember what happened 10 mins ago let alone 2 days . |
| 11 | I 've been trying to lead my friends , but I do n't know whether they 'd care to hear me called Chief Rabbit . " |
| 12 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 13 | Let's forget about the name for a moment , and perhaps we 'll get to hear what happened last Tuesday . " |
| 14 | The Inspector concluded , ‘ The questions we have to ask , therefore , and which we hope you may be able to help us shed some light on are , one , who was motivated to kill Hereward Marr ; two , what precisely might have provoked them to do it ; three , who drove the mini into the Broad and four , where is Mrs Marr at this moment ? ’ |
| 15 | A soft rubber ball like a squash ball is easy to insert over each cane : your local squash club may be willing to give you discarded punctured balls . |
| 16 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 17 | A few of the Holocaust Armenians are in Beirut old people 's homes , too senile to record what happened 74 years ago . |
| 18 | The one , that , even while giving her a verbal warning about her work , he had handed her a very important file to work on — albeit only to ensure she had little time for anything else — must mean that he had received good reports on her ability . |
| 19 | To ensure she remained this way , her mouth would be packed with earth , thus assuaging her hunger in the Afterworld . |
| 20 | Announcing the delay on Nov. 9 , Head of State Amadou Toumani Touré said that preparations for the conference were behind schedule but added that the delay would give the rebel movements time to ensure they had proper representation to make credible commitments at the conference . |
| 21 | The market for British films was not sufficiently large to justify mass production of films at budgets high enough to ensure they reached real quality , and executives at Stoll did n't understand the difference between good stories and good cinema . |
| 22 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 23 | The visitors were Arsenal and , while it still seems unfair to single out teams in this way , the intensity of attiude recorded by the referee 's hidden microphone made it easier to understand what happened last Saturday . |
| 24 | She was impressed to see they had electric light . |
| 25 | The marriage game was played for the highest stakes by kings and emperors and counts ; there is no reason to suppose it reached these proportions elsewhere in the social scale . |
| 26 | It is not quite accurate to call what happened last weekend ‘ appeasement ’ . |
| 27 | , I was going to get you trimmed this week , but it has n't been any warm weather has it , you would n't want your coat off , no . |
| 28 | You see , there are people in the City who would pay a vast sum of money to be able to boast they had real rabbit at one of their dinners . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
| 30 | Nenna 's character was faulty , but she had the instinct to see what made other people unhappy , and this instinct had only failed her once , in the case of her own husband . |