Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd picked up dysentery at a game fair in Hampshire ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ So it could hardly have taken you by surprise that she 'd started up life with a different partner . ’ |
| 3 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 4 | Two years earlier Jones had given up work as a hod carrier when Wimbledon signed him from Wealdstone for £10,000 . |
| 5 | At the same time , the deterioration in Sino-US relations in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the improvement in US-Soviet relations during 1990 had added further impetus for a US policy revision . |
| 6 | A few tourists were aboard ; a couple with walking gear and their spaniel dog with one blind eye staring out of the low window , and a Canadian , rather loud , who had struck up conversation with a young Lewis woman who was coming back from visiting her husband working in Libya . |