Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 2 | They had all come back for lunch but the women had rebelled at going out in the afternoon . |
| 3 | While Raybestos had succeeded in carrying on despite the intense opposition of two communities , it was unable to survive the actions of its own workers fighting the hazards of asbestos at the point of production . |
| 4 | Despite what Dane had said about facing up to the ghosts in her past and laying them to rest , it seemed she was still to be haunted by them . |
| 5 | I remembered something Zaria had said about clocking on at eight in the morning and eight-to-four seemed a reasonable working day . |
| 6 | He 'd acquired a gasoline kicker engine from somewhere with an exhaust that run and he had made during picked up from scraps and stuff and made it , so where he had a tub right on top of this gasoline engine . |
| 7 | She thought she was rather like a mother , making sure a child had eaten before going off to school , did not scruple to say , " Are you sure you 've had enough ? |
| 8 | A batch of film had gone for processing along with footprint casts and soil samples believed to be contaminated with blood or other tissue . |
| 9 | Ekeus also indicated that Iraq had conceded " full , final and complete disclosure " of various other ballistic and chemical weapons programmes and had admitted to destroying up to 800 missiles not previously declared to UN inspectors — a move subsequently verified by Boothby on March 23 . |
| 10 | An associate of Gilbert , he had insisted on moving in with the team , even though his presence was not necessary , for first-hand examination . |
| 11 | Last night he had forgotten the necessary , but Doreen had insisted on going through with it . |
| 12 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |