Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 2 | Anyway , I thought you 'd given up the notion of revenge . ’ |
| 3 | A professional development teacher interviewed pointed out the ambiguity of HMI expounding an aesthetic domain in Curriculum Matters 2 ( DES , 1985c ) and continuing to publish further booklets in this series under subject headings . |
| 4 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 5 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 6 | After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’ |
| 7 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 8 | In the event Mazzin was after the notebooks we 'd stuffed down the front of our pyjamas . |
| 9 | The day after he 'd nailed up the door of the lavatory in the yard she used the indoor one straight after him . |
| 10 | ‘ But why , once you 'd found out the truth about Ryan and me , did n't you drop your custody claim immediately ? |
| 11 | It was certainly better than the sandwich and a can of beer that she 'd expected ; if this had been the late and unlamented Eddie she 'd probably have been faced with a walk to the nearest carry-out to find that he 'd finished off the beer in her absence . |
| 12 | The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance . |
| 13 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 14 | By the late 1980s , Ceauşescu 's suspicions and caprices had whittled down the numbers of his long-term favourites . |
| 15 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 16 | Whilst he was gone , Morse turned to the back of The Times and had filled in the whole of the bottom right-hand quarter of the crossword when Lewis returned two minutes later . |
| 17 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 18 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |
| 19 | Nesting for the first time in the delta since the 16th century , the flamingos had flown up the coast from the southern province of Malaga after finding their traditional nesting ground in the Fuente de Piedra lake had dried up after a prolonged drought . |
| 20 | Ever since Ford had pointed out the location of the sepoy magazine Harry had been unable to get it out of his mind . |
| 21 | It was not until the cheers had subsided and Reg Pybus had pointed out the rashness of my statement that I decided instead on getting the match abandoned . |
| 22 | His spectacles had shaken down the arch of his nose . |
| 23 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 24 | Instead of travelling with the security truck carrying the money , Morgan had checked out the area round the bank the previous day . |
| 25 | Now he had sorted out the technique of using the deaf-aid , he found it wonderfully relaxing . |
| 26 | As Sir Bryan had predicted , the weather had sorted out the men from the boys and difficult pin placings had not been needed to tame the pros . |
| 27 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 28 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 29 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 30 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |