Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cam away feeling better because I 'd saved myself quite a bit of money , and I 'd done my bit towards helping the environment . |
| 2 | If we 'd seen it once a year that was often , |
| 3 | ‘ What happened was Chester Thompson brought them all down , because he had met me about a year prior to that and we just corresponded . |
| 4 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 5 | Years at an English public school , punctuated by all-too-brief holidays in Italy , had made him almost a stranger within his family . |
| 6 | They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another . |
| 7 | I had borrowed it about a week before . |
| 8 | Eva said it had taken them nearly a month to get booked up . |
| 9 | It had been intended , purely and simply , as an insult , but it had come out with just a hint of that genuine curiosity that so unexpectedly had afflicted her just a moment before . |