Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that , Mabel got carried away and bought some china cups — on sale at bargain prices , because they had lost their matching saucers — and Florrie bought a cobweb brush with a special extending cane handle , for getting up into those awkward comers of the ceiling . |
| 2 | The Psychopomps had checked in and done some minimal damage two nights back . |
| 3 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 4 | She launched into a brief account of her visit to Puddephat 's rooms , leaving vague what she had done there and making much of the fright she had got when the fire bell went off . |
| 5 | But she had risen early and found that staying put with nothing to do was growing more and more irksome . |
| 6 | In the week since she had left he had slept poorly and spent much of the night pacing around the house . |
| 7 | She felt raw — not physically , except where she had scoured her skin in the bath , but inside , in her soul , as if he had reached in and desecrated some sacred part of her . |
| 8 | They had quarrelled all the time and his mum had slammed out and left all the washing-up in the sink which he and Gary had to do when they ran out of plates . |
| 9 | The brown muddy plain had sparse vegetation , most of which appeared to have been burnt away in a centuries old holocaust which had dried out and cracked most of the mud . |