Example sentences of "[subord] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Th th there 's a place a coffee , tea room place called Betty 's in York , there where took me in where you have the head waiter take you to your table , for coffee , you know wonderful ! |
| 2 | When the dybbuk disappeared was when — and only when-I knew my hopes of getting Gittel back had come to nothing . |
| 3 | Superpower involvement has raised the stakes rather than lowered them . |
| 4 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 5 | Open complexes formed at P A3 were resistant to the heparin challenge at superhelical densities as low as -0.006 , although became sensitive when the plasmid was either relaxed by topoisomerase I or nicked by a mild treatment with DNase I ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , potential creators of university-related science institutions in the UK could do worse than read Koppes 's book for some idea of what might await them . |
| 7 | Markedly smaller and creamier than Collared Dove , but with no dark wing-tips , and no blue-grey in tail . |
| 8 | Generally darker than Collared Dove , with chestnut upperparts , and black and white patch on either side of neck . |
| 9 | Cricketers the world over , and England 's highly-respected umpires in particular , were stunned after the TCCB more than doubled Lamb 's original fine , which was already a maximum for a county committee to impose . |
| 10 | More than doubled what he 's got . |
| 11 | His prize money more than doubled Hendry 's seasonal earnings , which stood at £92,950 from the nine events leading up to his week 's work at the London venue . |
| 12 | And er we got the results now and er we more than doubled it . |
| 13 | The girl more than lived up to her mother 's recommendation of being ‘ good with the little ones ’ . |
| 14 | The early historical serials , typified by ‘ Marco Polo ’ , more than lived up to his expectations , drawing much critical praise from school teachers and parents as transmission stimulated children 's interest in the periods of history under view . |
| 15 | Both the food and the surroundings more than lived up to Luke 's predictions . |
| 16 | 4 , c. 76 , ss. 71 , 72 ) was operative in circumstances not applicable to the instant case , and by Crowder I. on the ground that the mother undertook , in the agreement sued upon , greater liabilities than arose under the statute . |
| 17 | I was bewitched by her , I think to be freer than became me , though I had no intention to carry the jest further . |
| 18 | They than asked what he had done to the police that they had it in for him . |
| 19 | Respondents were than asked whether their school 's report had been submitted to the LEA yet . |
| 20 | Sara made a statement rather than asked a question . |
| 21 | Between 1850 and 1914 population doubled , urban population tripled and national income more than tripled . |
| 22 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 23 | The straight abolitionists , meanwhile , had more than tripled , to 17% . |
| 24 | By 1992-93 , we will have more than tripled the original £15 million budget allocation for the know-how fund . |
| 25 | In elections to the Landtag ( provincial parliament ) in Upper Austria on Oct. 6 the extreme right Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) more than tripled its share of the vote , winning 17.7 per cent ( 5 per cent in the last Upper Austria provincial elections in 1985 — see p. 34110 ) and 11 seats ( three hitherto ) . |
| 26 | Between 1970 and 1986 the Ivory Coast , often regarded as one of Africa 's success stories , more than tripled its cereals imports , its external debt rose more than thirty-fold , and food production per capita barely kept up with population growth ( World Bank , 1988 , Tables ) . |
| 27 | He reads the texts that remain to us from sixth century Greece as evidence of ‘ a more thoroughgoing individual challenge to the orthodox cultural tradition … than occurred elsewhere ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 28 | The Hot Autumn marked a greater shift in the balance of power between labour and capital than occurred elsewhere . |
| 29 | The Hot Autumn also marks a greater turning point in economic performance than occurred elsewhere . |
| 30 | Serious Faults Straw-coloured , excessive , insufficient or sooty markings ; rust marking other than described above ; white marking any place on dog ( a few rust or white hairs do not constitute a marking ) . |