Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the partial exception of Durrell , however , none of the writers mentioned carried forward an energy for experiment into a later age by working in Britain . |
| 2 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 3 | Anyway , I thought you 'd given up the notion of revenge . ’ |
| 4 | A professional development teacher interviewed pointed out the ambiguity of HMI expounding an aesthetic domain in Curriculum Matters 2 ( DES , 1985c ) and continuing to publish further booklets in this series under subject headings . |
| 5 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 6 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 7 | ‘ The high school I was at was among the first to have a tiny in-school radio station , news , views , interviews and a touch of music , and consequently we 'd attracted quite a bit of somewhat condescending attention from real stations around town . |
| 8 | I was about to respond that she 'd added quite a lot to the letters , but Masha came out of the bathroom . |
| 9 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 11 | Twenty-odd years earlier , I 'd picked up an idea from the marvellously creative Bill Brown who was Director of Billy Graham 's Crusades in 1966–7 . |
| 12 | her husband died she 'd picked out a bit of land all this and I borrowed this and one thing and another , so well they never found a penny ! |
| 13 | It were my other sister 's daughter 's eighteenth and she 'd booked up a party at the club . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd rolled around a bit with Angela Brickell , ’ I said , ‘ and that 's where we come to the biggest Against . ’ |
| 15 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 16 | After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’ |
| 17 | But it was that 's what it that 's where er you know , there was he had been quite successful in this lawsuit you know , he 'd made quite a bit of money . |
| 18 | The note had made her giggle and she 'd seen absolutely no harm in going . |
| 19 | Nona 'd grown up a lot in New York . ’ |
| 20 | Anger was n't something he 'd felt even a flicker of . |
| 21 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 22 | He 'd mapped out a route for them , and given it to her to follow . |
| 23 | And the importance these parties assumed reflected less the intervention of thousands of intelligenty than the support provided by millions of workers and peasants . |
| 24 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 25 | He realised that he 'd opened up a can of worms . |
| 26 | In the event Mazzin was after the notebooks we 'd stuffed down the front of our pyjamas . |
| 27 | It was as if I owed him financially for everything he 'd given me , he 'd drawn up a sort of balance sheet , setting adoption against the chances he 'd given me ; because he 'd taken me on I owed him . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 29 | He 'd pulled out a handful of coins , at the same time grabbing her shoulder , but Midnight had moved aside pulling Jess with him , and the other two men had hung on to the furious Paddy . |
| 30 | Cara nodded , and elatedly went on to tell them that she had heard , only that morning when she 'd looked in at her office to check her post before driving up to Cheltenham , that she 'd pulled off an interview with none other than Vendelin Gajdusek . |