Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 2 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 3 | Basquiat 's estate , administered by his accountant father , still faces lawsuits from a dealer asking for $900,000 for three paintings Basquiat had promised her in 1982 but never delivered . |
| 4 | The first was just 20 minutes after the polls closed when , during a sample of random live interviews in Manchester , a man with a business on the verge of bankruptcy cheerfully admitted that the Tories had got him into this and he relied on them to get him out . |
| 5 | Two world wars had drawn them into close and cooperative contact with government . |
| 6 | Thus my trial by Fire had shriven me of all but the Dyak tattoo I stood up in , and enough imagery to illustrate something of both the linear and the dream dimensions of an odyssey into the oceanic hemisphere of our beginnings . |
| 7 | Indeed , they had reckoned German strength in the area to be at most one corps although British Intelligence had estimated it at three and a half corps and even this , in the event , proved an underestimate . |
| 8 | She had used inexperienced girls with no make-up , she had shown their deliberately unshaven armpits , she had dressed them in creased and crumpled frocks — the mood shot taken to its logical conclusion , perhaps , as well as an echo of her mother 's antipathy towards using professional models , but a far cry from the traditional ‘ Laura Ashley ’ image of strawberries-and-cream-tea on the lawn . |