Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he remembered he 'd given up smoking the damned thing . |
| 2 | What if you 'd gone on believing the worst of me and into the bargain you 'd ended up having to marry Janice ? |
| 3 | ‘ Placing a half-silvered mirror in front of a camera allowed the camera to see two images simultaneously , providing you 'd balanced out lighting the two images very carefully . |
| 4 | The German army had pulled out leaving the entire city in ruins and , according to the information at Brigade H.Q , the devastation was unbelievable . |
| 5 | While Robyn had been preoccupied with the issues of contemporary literary theory and its repercussions on the Cambridge English Faculty , the Conservative Government of Mrs Thatcher , elected in 1979 with a mandate to cut public spending , had set about decimating the national system of higher education . |