Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening heavy lids , she found that he was staring at her with burning eyes , yet she was aware that he 'd imposed on himself an icy control . |
| 2 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 3 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 5 | The quicker he got rid of her the better . |
| 6 | Which was true , though that morning , as he had spied on the French , Sharpe had recognized in himself the undeniable pleasure of doing his job well . |
| 7 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
| 8 | By 1919 Japan had secured for herself a formal position as one of the world 's most powerful nations . |
| 9 | As he approached tentatively , wanting to seem friendly but not to alarm her , she had turned on him a long and curious glance from remarkable , slanted , violet-blue eyes . |
| 10 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |
| 11 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 12 | Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months . |
| 13 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 14 | Nehushtah , Mandru 's wife , had decided upon it the previous night . |
| 15 | They had slept beside it the previous night , and rose at five to make sure of reaching the top by sunrise . |
| 16 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 17 | They had requested of him a single large living room , an ample eating room and ‘ no useless drawingroom ’ . |
| 18 | Perhaps sex had become for me a habit-forming drug . |
| 19 | But the exercise of editing had become for him a mechanical one , and he was glad to be rid of it . |
| 20 | His wife hated their life here in Munding , and what had happened in the ice-bound park at Easterness had become for her the final bitter vindication of that hate . |
| 21 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 22 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 23 | It had seemed to him a natural extension of his duties , and somehow consistent with Islamic notions of hospitality , to assume responsibility for seeing that Owen was properly supplied with coffee . |
| 24 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 25 | The future , which once had seemed to her a long , grassy vista into distant sunlight , was now a black impenetrable vapour , blowing towards her menacingly , like some poisonous gas , and threatening to envelop her . |
| 26 | He had brought with him the completed manuscript of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and read it to the Wordsworths for the first time , so tradition says , in one of the Alfoxden parlours . |
| 27 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 28 | The Six , in the Treaty of Rome , had gone beyond what the new France wanted . |
| 29 | Anything to avoid further reference to what had happened between them the previous evening ! |
| 30 | Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor . |