Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 2 | They also saw it as an opportunity to get the packages of care that they sought implemented as early as possible . |
| 3 | Pressure on the government to intervene had come as early as 1952 with the publication of the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's Report entitled The Problem of Homosexuality which advocated reform of the law . |
| 4 | Claudia closed her eyes as she remembered the time she had come home earlier than usual . |
| 5 | Tolkien and Lewis had met as early as 1926 ; in 1939 Charles Williams had moved as a publisher from London to Oxford , and by the last years of the war Christian revival was in active literary life . |
| 6 | Hungary had turned back more than one million people from its borders since October 1991 , when it restricted the conditions of entry into the country . |
| 7 | Hungary had turned back more than one million people from its borders since October 1991 , when it restricted the conditions of entry into the country . |
| 8 | Ardeshir Zahedi had done far better than that . |
| 9 | Despite what seemed to be a nice little boom , British productivity had grown more slowly than that of any comparable European country : 40 per cent compared with Germany 's and Italy 's 150 per cent , not to consider Japan 's 400 per cent . |
| 10 | Senna said Mansell had braked much earlier than anticipated . |
| 11 | By the 1980s the prevailing agenda had shifted yet again as Latin America , Africa and Asia came increasingly to the centre of Catholic concern with liberation theology upon the one side , inculturation upon the other . |
| 12 | For some reason the subject of Marianne Moore came up , and he expressed disappointment that the edition of her poems which Faber 's had recently published had sold less well than expected . |
| 13 | She had woken earlier even than usual , with Tom beside her , sleeping contentedly and openly on his back . |
| 14 | John Piper had seen the Diaghilev Ballet in his twenties , had gone as often as possible because ‘ the excitement — the tinge of exultation — in the dancing married to modern music and modern art , worked in my blood and bones . ’ |
| 15 | This was no new departure : Charles I had wanted a strong navy , though his reliance on unparliamentary taxation to pay for it had led to trouble ; the Republic had gone further afield than previous governments and had won some notable successes ; and Charles II and his brother James had tried to build up a strong navy without becoming too caught up by the House of Commons and its desire to control policy by controlling finance . |
| 16 | A large proportion of the younger generation , growing up during the Nazi era and highly impressionable , had been fully exposed to the suggestive force of propaganda and had succumbed more uncritically than any other section of the population to the emotional appeal of the ‘ Führer myth ’ . |
| 17 | He was still shocked that he had reacted so strongly when that jovial Irishman turned up . |
| 18 | Their expenditure had increased more sharply than that of other authorities but this was partly due to the government 's own policy of spending more on law and order and accepting above-average increases in police pay . |
| 19 | Egyptian stone vases reached Crete before the bronze age began ; the Cretan industry , which had started as early as 2500 BC , nevertheless post-dated the arrival of these foreign vases . |
| 20 | He had taken not more than two strides and yet he was leaving her behind . |
| 21 | By the time of the First World War the company had taken over more than 50 small companies , as well as the docks at Hull ( q.v. ) , and its chief locomotive and wagon works at Doncaster employed nearly 5,000 people . |
| 22 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
| 23 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 24 | His aunt had lived as privately as any woman he knew , but even she had visited and tried to help the Blaneys . |
| 25 | Mike was waiting for her in the lobby when she came down , and she was pleased to see that he too had dressed as informally as possible in deference to the humidity . |
| 26 | Controversy over the Fleet had flared up again when Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk 's decree transferring to Ukrainian jurisdiction all military formations in the republic , including the Fleet which would form the basis of Ukraine 's navy , had been answered by Russian President Boris Yeltsin 's decree of April 7 transferring the Black Sea Fleet to Russia . |
| 27 | If during the last twenty years , the costs of automobiles had declined as fast as those for memory capacity in computers , today a Rolls-Royce would cost 50 cents ( van Tulder and Junne , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | The encounter had lasted no longer than one minute at the outside , yet she took away with her a vivid memory of that thin handsome face , with its grimly set lips and smouldering brown eyes . |