Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journalist with whom I 'd joined TWW on the same week from sister papers in Cardiff had wickedly gone into another room to make the mischievous call . |
| 2 | She 'd left Laura to the medical portion of their task . |
| 3 | If Polybius had treated Rome in the same way as according to a fragment of Book 34 he seems to have treated Alexandria , we would have gained in understanding . |
| 4 | Failure at the polls had exposed Danzigers to the true state of the city 's finances . |
| 5 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 6 | Competing in the free market of air fares had catapulted Branson into the rarefied area of government policy and international relations , and helped to define what had hitherto been purely instinctive beliefs in a more rigid ideological context . |
| 7 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 8 | After all , it was the British and the Russians who had dominated Iran through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries . |
| 9 | His first reaction was that there had been a leak and he had phoned Mackie about the large sale of shares . |
| 10 | The friend , Robin Davies , told Wirral coroner Christopher Johnson he had met Andrew in the Central Park pub in Bromborough on Friday evening , May 7 . |
| 11 | Mr Chad told the jury that Faye Whitehead , 17 , of Torrs Park , Ifracombe , Devon , had met Harris at the Imperial Hotel where they both worked . |
| 12 | " It was an insult , " thundered Tupper , " to the service which had turned England into the British Empire , an incredible stupidity which would halve the mariner 's loyalty automatically " . |
| 13 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 14 | No Christian had visited Kufra before the 1920s . |
| 15 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | It was the first time that a senior Iranian official had visited Iraq since the Iranian revolution of 1979 . |
| 17 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 18 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 19 | There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant . |
| 20 | Hammond had supplied Hunt with the superficial areas of the rooms he required , but he inexplicably changed these to dimensions , although a note did say that ‘ dimensions of the several rooms may be varied , provided the superficial area of each is not materially altered ’ . |
| 21 | My father had helped Margaret during the early years , but directly Dickie had been old enough to board at his preparatory school Margaret had insisted on returning to nursing and becoming sole breadwinner . |
| 22 | It would have been better , Lissa thought unhappily , if she had avoided Lynx from the very beginning . |
| 23 | The Cossacks had crossed Siberia in the seventeenth century . |
| 24 | In 1989 , however , Greece had replaced Portugal as the poorest EC country in terms of GNP per capita . |
| 25 | The Bishop having departed , Treadwell had walked Theodora down the short drive of his handsome house . |
| 26 | The adulation that had greeted Diana in the early days began to turn sour . |
| 27 | The apostles , the folk who had known Jesus in the old days in Galilee , Stephen , Paul ; all are ‘ witnesses of these things ; and so is the Holy Spirit whom God had given to those who obey him ’ ( Acts 5:32 ) . |
| 28 | Opponents claimed that HDZ policies were reminiscent of the fascist ustasha government which had ruled Croatia during the Second World War , and that it was receiving funds from ustasha emigré organizations . |
| 29 | Tepilit had asked Claudia in the proper way , to see if her father , wherever his village was , would accept gifts . |
| 30 | He was notably more libertarian than Tolkien , for all that , who as a Catholic had supported Franco during the Spanish Civil War . |