Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 2 | He 'd got your number the first time we met . |
| 3 | Even after I 'd told my wife the good news I could n't hide my depression . |
| 4 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 5 | Before he had completed his turn the whole sphere was blazing , and two parachutes were unfolding below it . |
| 6 | The fresh air and exercise had given her skin a radiant bloom that did n't need enhancement . |
| 7 | And though Villa 's lively attack looked the more likely to score , they never looked like recovering after Kiwomya had given his side a deserved lead . |
| 8 | He had given his mother a false address that time . |
| 9 | It looked as though Spurs had regained their self-respect a few seconds later when the England striker appeared to net a Samways cross , but in fact Tranmere 's full-back Higgins had put the ball past his goalkeeper . |
| 10 | The deep voice behind her made her jump and , turning quickly , she met the smiling face of the man who had attracted her attention a short while back . |
| 11 | When he had written his autobiography a few years earlier , he had started it with the verse : — |
| 12 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 13 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 14 | Tallis called , and as if it had understood its name the Green Jack stopped a moment , stared sadly at the woman with the horse . |
| 15 | The police had found his body the previous afternoon , just before lunch . |
| 16 | Louis ' men had set their roadblock the far side of the bridge from Trent 's observation point — upended ammunition boxes topped by poles cut from the jungle edge and a square white signboard on which Trent could see red letters made indecipherable by the angle of the board to his line of vision . |
| 17 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 18 | ‘ I had blown my whistle a long time before the ball was in the net . |
| 19 | He had learnt his craft the hard way ; after you had shot an Ibizan beach orgy sequence in a studio in Soho on a cold January morning with a load of complaining bimbos and a gay black man coked out of his brains , any other gig was a breeze . |
| 20 | The same kind of inertia had held him prisoner a few seconds before , but common sense made him brush his nonsensical thoughts aside . |