Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the node became trapped by a strike and was eventually delivered very late . |
| 2 | The DIM system demonstrated run on a Sparc and consists of Xerox 's ScanWorX OCR software , Fujitsu 's M3096G scanner , Frame 's publishing software , Excalibur 's document imaging software and Laser Magnetics 's optical storage . |
| 3 | Jamie and I got pushed about a bit and nearly fell down a couple of times , but we survived through to the end of the night without any scrapes . |
| 4 | ‘ Then he got injured in a field and had to be off for a year , but everything seems to be going well now . |
| 5 | I 'd heard from a sceptic that there were only six basic shots in surfing photography and everything else was just window dressing . |
| 6 | The viewers would just assume he 'd fallen into a cupboard and bang would go the impact of the scene . |
| 7 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 8 | Karpov came prepared with an improvement and it equalised comfortably . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't mind that I 'm an atheist ? ’ he 'd said with a frankness that at the time she 'd admired . |
| 10 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
| 11 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 12 | Then , after I 'd walked about a bit and done my errands I suddenly felt much better . |
| 13 | He 'd woken without a hangover and even done a token tidying-up of his room . |
| 14 | The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away . |
| 15 | That second time Charlie 'd pulled into a lay-by and gone to sleep at the wheel . |
| 16 | In the past I 'd behaved in a way that made it impossible for women to stay with me — for instance , I 'd cut off emotionally , or refuse to have sex , or start seeing other women . |
| 17 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's no need to cover yourself up — certainly not for my benefit , ’ he 'd drawled in a tone that had sent shivers quivering frantically up and down her spine . |
| 19 | Well we we 're going round Conways we sa , we 'd gone into a pub for erm we had sort of granary baps did n't we ? |
| 20 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 21 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 22 | It was the first time he 'd been really alone since the days when he 'd lived in a hole and had to go out hunting by himself because there was no one else . |
| 23 | ‘ It was a photograph of Mark and I heard how he 'd qualified as a chiropractor and set up in Falmouth where it 's uphill work . |
| 24 | I came to motor sport after I 'd qualified as an architect and gained a business degree , ’ he told her curtly . |
| 25 | For a few brief moments he 'd been able to forget the room and the bizarre encampment and Hennessy at his elbow , and he 'd conversed in a language that came to him now almost as readily as his first ; he 'd conversed with a dark-eyed alien . |
| 26 | He left school at fourteen and after several jobs became apprenticed to a toolmaker and joined the Amalgamated Society of Toolmakers in March 1916 . |
| 27 | The blend of liberalism and inefficiency which Vietnam revealed contributed to an anti-Americanism that is still strong . |
| 28 | It was only in the late eighteenth century that spelling became standardised in a way that we would recognise today , and as late as 1900 you can read variant words that surprise us rather — shew for show , for example . |
| 29 | What was certain was that throughout its duration she felt wasted by an emptiness that no extremes of violence , and no throes of humiliation , could even remotely begin to fill . |
| 30 | She lay covered with a sheet when Kattina returned to dress . |