Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Irwin appears to have reconciled the two to his own satisfaction , though the arguments to which he resorted owed more to the theological aptitude displayed in his youthful biography of Keble than to ordinary practical intelligence . |
| 2 | He lived in Notting Hill Gate , in a house he 'd bought cheaply in the late fifties , which he now seldom left , touched as he was by agoraphobia , or , as he preferred it , ‘ a perfectly rational fear of anyone I ca n't blackmail ’ . |
| 3 | Archie was n't the first drunk man he 'd driven home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 4 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd have had a visit if she 'd gone straight to the nearest phone , ’ Goldman observed . |
| 6 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 7 | Rebel was racing after another lamb he 'd steered away from the main flock . |
| 8 | Today 's farewell party brought together staff who 'd worked there during the Second World War . |
| 9 | The wind in the gusts seemed directed straight at the small casement window , which rattled and banged . |
| 10 | He 'd forgotten to shut up his dogs ; they 'd waited patiently outside the front door . |
| 11 | The long pause which followed weighed heavily in the warm air . |
| 12 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |
| 13 | Polybius explains in Book 3 why he proposes to extend his exposition to cover the next twenty years by saying : " Since judgements regarding either victors or vanquished based purely on the actual struggles are not final … |
| 14 | It passed and he looked upriver to where Mariana lay hidden upstream of the fallen treetrunk . |
| 15 | Sadly she deceived herself : as the sanitary authorities became convinced that cholera was water-borne and could be checked by means more immediately effective than prayer , public attention became focussed more on the sanitary inspector than on the parson . |
| 16 | There is some evidence that he was involved in the negotiations for property , and he certainly became associated publicly with the great success of the firm . |
| 17 | I got dressed quickly in the bitter cold of the room , and washed when I could . |
| 18 | Several booksellers commented that their sales of Sue Townsend 's The Queen and I ( Methuen ) had roared ahead at the full price , despite the fact that the book was available at a discount at Dillons down the road or around the corner . |
| 19 | Nought but a rabble he had gathered together on the fair island that lies to the east — of buccaneers and booty hunters and ruffianly runaways from the slaveships that are plying these waters most usefully . |
| 20 | Whatever Sauniere had stumbled across in the 1880s , the French author , Gerard de Sede , wrote about it nearly eighty years later . |
| 21 | Truman 's career had developed wholly in the domestic context where he had shown considerable guile and courage . |
| 22 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 23 | According to Blackwell , morality involved the evolution of self-consciousness which had developed only in the human species . |
| 24 | A bitter personal feud had developed there between the two eminent classics professors , Otto Jahn ( like Nietzsche from Pforta ) and Friedrich Ritschl ; and in 1865 Ritschl left , followed by some of his students , to take up a post at the University of Leipzig . |
| 25 | On July 4 , 1989 , Guy Gennesseaux , leader and founder of the centre-left French Democratic Party ( Parti démocrate français — PDF — which had broken away from the Radical Socialist Party in 1982 when the latter refused to leave the UDF ) , announced that his party was joining the centre-left grouping , Presidential Majority ( majorité présidentielle ) . |
| 26 | On July 23 gunmen assassinated in Beirut Walid Khaled , an official of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , which had broken away from the mainstream Fatah in 1973 under the leadership of Sabri Khalil al Banna ( also known as Abu Nidal ) . |
| 27 | That is to say , malignant cells that had broken away from the original cancer and begun to reproduce in other parts of the body . |
| 28 | Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter . |
| 29 | Mahmud had broken away from the main crocodile and was engaged in earnest conversation with the small fat boy . |
| 30 | After we had broken fast in the small buttery which adjoined the kitchen , Benjamin dragged me outside to the gardens . |