Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bricks had fallen and then the roof caved in , pinning Lewis under a concrete lintel . |
| 2 | It had come as quite a surprise to discover he was charming , very generous , and enormous fun to be with . |
| 3 | For a moment he had seen it clearly ; himself and Grainne in the Sun Chamber ; he had seen as well the child , the dark-haired creature of life and light and mischief … |
| 4 | Although on several previous occasions Mrs Whitehouse had felt that either the response , or the public face that the Church presented was unsatisfactory — for example over the Honest to God debate — this case , with the vociferous support for Gay News , made her feel particularly vulnerable . |
| 5 | The date on which patients had died but not the cause was recorded . |
| 6 | His parents had not asked him what sort of holiday he had had or how the flight had been . |
| 7 | Linley had called his publisher and asked the name of the restaurant where they had lunched and also the time they had left . |
| 8 | Trent reached the point which he had marked but now the current was that much stronger and he needed to be at the bridge . |
| 9 | A statute called Quia Emptores ( 1290 ) had enacted that whenever a tenant alienated his land for an estate in fee simple , the alienee should hold , not of the alienor , but of the alienor 's lord . |
| 10 | Last year when one of them had left after only a fortnight she had given Nurse Rose a travelling clock and a nearly full bottle of Rochas ' Femme . |
| 11 | Karen had admitted as much the day she came to the school . |
| 12 | The , the force levels were added , were sufficient given the inability of the Argentinian government to reinforce er the Falklands once the action had begun and again the equation of air forces etcetera were , were evaluated . |
| 13 | There was a crack , but no sepoy dropped dead ; the percussion cap had fired but not the pistol . |
| 14 | The Act provides the following defences : that the damage was wholly due to the fault of the person suffering it ; that that person voluntarily accepted the risk of the damage ; and that the livestock was killed or injured on land on which it had strayed and either the dog belonged to the occupier or its presence on the land was authorised by the occupier . |