Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 2 | It was the first time South Africa has admitted it possessed nuclear weapons , though the United States government suggested as long ago as 1979 that Pretoria might possess an atom bomb after a satellite detected two nuclear-like flashes over Antarctic waters to the south of Cape Town . |
| 3 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 4 | While the wife was getting dressed I took another cherry from the packet and prepared the thing . |
| 5 | There were accusations last night that doctors at the hospital should have realised she had classic symptoms of the disorder . |
| 6 | Married to a sickly wife , then having to cope as a widower with a daughter who suffered fits frequently , finding work difficult to obtain , Thomas Titford must have felt he had enough crosses to bear for one lifetime . |
| 7 | Having decided they had that power , they decided not to exercise it and made no order under that section . |
| 8 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 9 | ‘ I would have thought they had enough country in Sweden , ’ Bragg said crossly , ‘ without his bothering about ours . ’ |
| 10 | Obviously Rune must have thought she harboured some grudge against him and had been anxious to prevent a potential display of hostility in front of his colleagues the next day . |
| 11 | Personally I would have thought you had more ambition than that . ’ |
| 12 | Could have sworn I saw some tits in there today . |
| 13 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 14 | Also , although he would have denied it had any influence at all , Ketura had told him Jeopardy used that court , and that he always practised early . |
| 15 | And you ask us to believe that out of a dozen car-parks and hundreds of side streets you could have chosen you picked this place by chance ? |
| 16 | She had thought he wanted ordinary satisfactions . |
| 17 | A few years ago , he had replaced her squished left eye with her first optic implant . |
| 18 | Vern had jammed it shut last night . |
| 19 | like that , and he said it was ever so funny , he took fifty up there because , I bet he told you about the money betting and all that and he 's said he bet fifty pound , he thought christ he said , I was bloody lucky he said I , I had the , I said well David . |