Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , if I were a script writer , and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man , the above tendencies would lead me to choose a monosyllabic form , using a closed syllable , ending in a consonant as far away from a continuant as I can find — a plosive — and with a vowel as far away from /i/ as I can find , such as /a/ or /o/ . |
| 2 | I called several hours later , by which time she had calmed down a little , but was smoking one cigarette after another . |
| 3 | She had filled out a little since Sarah had last seen her and she was no longer drab . |
| 4 | She did love him , she had always loved him , but now that they were both adults the love she felt for him had taken on a far greater significance . |
| 5 | They had put up a sufficiently worthy defence and could yield with honour . |
| 6 | He had leaned back a little , brushing her hair back softly with his fingers , pausing to gaze long and deep into her eyes . |
| 7 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 8 | But only yesterday he had pulled off the best purchase yet — not the biggest , but a vital strip of land running along the foreshore . |