Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They belonged to a friend of his who 'd decided to get off the sinking ship quickly . |
| 2 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 3 | And er but at er there you 'd got to go for the other two years , and some parents were rather wondering whether that left you late in the queue for a job , because jobs were very difficult . |
| 4 | It was , you opened it and come out and shut , shut the door and you 'd lose the penny then they 'd got to go through the same operation with another penny , you know what I mean . |
| 5 | And of course the woman was n't really one of theirs , just some distant freelance , and the back-up with her was some nutty amateur they 'd had to use at the last moment — |
| 6 | She had an almost Germanic regard for order , and set about repairing the house , the stables , the outbuildings and conservatory with the willing and cheerful help of a small , dedicated band of local people , with whom she could relax and be herself , without putting up defences as she 'd had to do with the false Pyglings . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd stayed to look for the aristocratic drop-out . |
| 8 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 9 | Police say they 'd tried to flag down the stolen car and were following , not chasing it , when it crashed . |
| 10 | I 'd managed to drive over the terrible roads to a village or small town . |
| 11 | If you had a talent , you were recognised , and often I got invited to play for the local Boy Scout group . |
| 12 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 13 | Gerry Fitt of the SDLP and Dr. Ian Paisley of the DUP supported Irwin in the House of Commons and the controversy over Castlereagh interrogation methods appeared set to escalate into an embarrassing crisis for the Westminster government . |
| 14 | Meantime , senior officers had gathered to watch from the rear observation and the order went out that all ranks must return to their posts . |
| 15 | These I do not repeat here , but my version of Boulestin 's sweet tomato conserve , which I had intended to include in the same book and which is indeed indexed as appearing in it , somehow got away . |
| 16 | John and Angela had travelled out by the Sally Line from Ramsgate to Dunkirk and had intended to return by the same route . |
| 17 | If , whatever a man 's real intention may be , he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would believe that he was assenting to the terms proposed by the other party , and that other party upon that belief enters into a contract with him , the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had intended to agree to the other party 's terms . |
| 18 | The result forced the government to freeze the sale of 51 per cent of the shares of the state telecommunications body Antel , which it had intended to offer to a foreign company for a sum of around US$500,000,000 . |
| 19 | As his feet touched the bottom he was thinking of the tanks the Allies had intended to land on the rocky promontory before him ; clearly this was not possible , for now in the starlight he could see its rock face was impassable . |
| 20 | Bitterly , she realised that her night at The Angel with Freddie Nash had shackled her in a way which , even if she had stopped to think about the possible consequences at the time , she could scarcely have envisaged . |
| 21 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |
| 22 | The Kurd , whom she had expected to flee at the first shaking of the ground , was staying with them . |
| 23 | And there , instead of the omelette and the glass of wine which we had expected to swallow in a nervous hurry , we found the Restaurant La Camarguaise serving a well-chosen and properly cooked and comforting meal in a clean and high-ceilinged dining-room . |
| 24 | In his resignation letter Mann said he had resigned to protest against the recent extension of President 's rule in Punjab and the refusal of the government to allow a state legislature to be elected . |
| 25 | Melanie had been told they had come to live in a great city but found herself again in a village , a grey one . |
| 26 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 27 | In particular , Keyes had come to identify with the Romantic movement , and it was Heath-Stubbs who was able to broaden Keyes 's base by tracing for him the origins of Romanticism in primitive legends through the medieval to the Augustan poets . |
| 28 | The new directly assessed tax had come to stay as the main supplement to the King 's ordinary revenue ; although fifteenths and tenths were generally granted in conjunction with subsidies for the rest of the century , the latter were much more productive . |
| 29 | She was not beautiful , and hardly fey as he had come to expect from the fair sex , but there was something undeniably compelling about her . |
| 30 | The Padre was unable to find any word at all ; his eyes had come to rest on the golden letters " Holy Bible " on the back of Fleury 's razor blade . |