Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know we as a nation are not renowned for our ability to serve but the general level of indifference , apathy and downright rudeness I encountered made even me , a cynical bastard at the best of times , wince . |
| 2 | He 'd helped set up a new research wing , which was due to be officially opened in a fortnight 's time . |
| 3 | At this point I would like to stress that the tank was overstocked but the number of water changes I made helped avoid any problems . |
| 4 | In an unguarded moment , Iris had let drop that , while Bonard was paying her expenses , she was receiving no fee to run the course . |
| 5 | ‘ Next , ’ said Amaranth , who had let drop the first two scarves on to the heads of the assembled press men , ‘ we have Gerald Kaufman , all vinegar and no chips . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm so glad , ’ Leith replied , knowing from the very few comments Rosemary had let drop that she must have gone through a most unhappy time before Derek had finally left . |
| 7 | The Woman had let go of Tug 's shoulders as soon as the door opened . |
| 8 | Midnight had let go . |
| 9 | I got out , feeling alone and rootless now that he had let go of my hand . |
| 10 | as if he had let go of oars and rudder and now drifted on the dark current of events . |
| 11 | It was as if she had let go of a great burden . |
| 12 | His expression lightening a little once he had let go of her , he pulled a penny from his pocket , and said cheerfully , ‘ We 'll toss for white . |
| 13 | On the screen they had let go of the puerto Rican mass murderer 's trousers and he was on his way to the sidewalk , head first , at about seventy miles an hour . |
| 14 | If he had let go , he would have fallen about thirty feet on to a narrow ledge , where boxes had been placed to break his fall . |
| 15 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |
| 16 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 17 | He turned towards the stove so that she should n't see the flush of shame and dismay that he had let slip Berowne 's name . |
| 18 | He had let slip he was married . |
| 19 | He was angry with himself for what he had let slip . |
| 20 | But from what Cliff had let slip he had been a poor father , an unpopular and unsuccessful schoolmaster yet with unreasonable ambitions for his only son . |
| 21 | Her response had been a spate of anxious letters which he had let accumulate in his locker . |
| 22 | Twenty-two years old , she had already lost count and lost interest in the number of men she had let penetrate her slender frame . |
| 23 | This view of him had been built up gradually , partly as a result of that interview with Rodriguez back in Mexico City , and partly from the bits and pieces of information Ward had let fall . |
| 24 | She roamed back thoughtfully into childhood memories , hunting for the little clues her mother and grandmother had let fall about him , and the sum of them all was remarkably meagre . |
| 25 | I have always looked upon you as Theo Daniel said he could not see the pain Frederica said was in the olives , and Alexander , still lecturing , said that Vincent had objected to paintings of symbolic Christs in Gethsemane by Bernard and his compères , had torn up his own , had made do with the olives themselves . |
| 26 | In the meantime Lowell had made do with powdered milk for both him and the animal . |
| 27 | George Felix was surely in a rage , but he was also enjoying being angry , and that was something that never happened to her father , whose rages had made anger such a familiar monster . |
| 28 | The human instinct to perpetuate one 's own name at every opportunity , whenever more urgent occupation is wanting , had made use even of this mere three square inches of dusty glass . |
| 29 | The polytechnics , faced with the problem of increasing access or maintaining the level of money spent on each student , had made access their priority . |
| 30 | Joseph Fernandez , the local CIA man , tried not to have too much to do with the local airstrip/farm , once he had helped start it ; but the cover was sometimes blown in definitive fashion . |