Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 2 | well I 'd only paid me first month you see twenty two thirty |
| 3 | ‘ But Ellen , ’ said Bernard , ‘ if you 'd only stuck it another month , you 'd have got your degree and we could have begun to live quite comfortably . ’ |
| 4 | The Judge said that he had stolen Lady Margaret 's ring , and that she had only bought it that day and the ring was a very expensive diamond . |
| 5 | Paul Franklin was sound , and Angela Cartwright confessed that she too had long thought it high time Grunte gave up . |
| 6 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 7 | Occhetto 's position on the Gulf war had meanwhile lost him some support among the social democratic wing of the party , led by Giorgio Napolitano . |
| 8 | He had not asked her one question , had not given her one chance to explain . |
| 9 | He had not asked her one question , had not given her one chance to explain . |
| 10 | She seemed to be almost floating and Maggie was astounded that the sharp stones had not given her enough pain to waken her . |
| 11 | If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet . |
| 12 | Jimmy Carter 's limited experience in politics had not given him adequate preparation for the demands of the White House . |
| 13 | As the conservative Senator Nunn said , in the fateful debate giving the president the powers he ( and the pro-Israeli members of Congress so fervently ) sought , Bush had not given him compelling reason for committing huge American forces to combat . |
| 14 | If they had not given him some food , he surely would have died like his mother . |
| 15 | Indeed she had not given it another thought since last seeing it in Matthew 's sitting-room . |
| 16 | I knew that they had not given you enough time to recover from the pneumonia . |
| 17 | He had not seen her all day and badly wanted to say goodbye , but there was no sign of her in the crowd that had gathered to see them off . |
| 18 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 19 | Then , at Suez , Britain 's possession of the Bomb had not helped her one iota in swaying American Middle East policy . |
| 20 | ‘ He did not appreciate that his colleague had not taken it that way , ’ she added . |
| 21 | If we had not provided you this delay , and this opportunity , what would you have done ? ’ |
| 22 | Speaking in a House of Commons debate on the Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment in 1955 , Chuter Ede declared that his time as Home Secretary had not persuaded him either way of the arguments for or against deterrence . |
| 23 | She had hardly seen him all day . |
| 24 | He had been sitting at a table in the corner reading an Italian newspaper and Sandison had hardly paid him any attention . |
| 25 | He had always told me that education was a waste of time and he could n't see the point of it . |
| 26 | the first time she had ever asked him that question . |
| 27 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 28 | Astrid , who had once found him such fun , was fed up with his tinder temper . |
| 29 | She had deliberately given him that impression simply because she had n't wanted to look lonely and pathetic in his eyes . |
| 30 | It had further taught them that bomb casualties in Protestant districts frequently included a substantial proportion of Roman Catholics . |