Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 32 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 33 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 34 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 35 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 36 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 37 | Old friends who had forgotten her during the hard times . |
| 38 | Many heiresses could give him dollars , few could offer him the appearance and manner of a lady — it was that which had attracted him after the cruder charms of such as Maybelle Foy . |
| 39 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 40 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 41 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 42 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 43 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 44 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 45 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 46 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 47 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 48 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 49 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 50 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 51 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 52 | Manuel had quietly melted away , perhaps to leave the stage clear for Andy , perhaps to grieve alone at the cruel injustice that had robbed him of the top prize . |
| 53 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 54 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 55 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 56 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 57 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 58 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 59 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 60 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |