Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 2 | well I 'd only paid me first month you see twenty two thirty |
| 3 | ‘ But Ellen , ’ said Bernard , ‘ if you 'd only stuck it another month , you 'd have got your degree and we could have begun to live quite comfortably . ’ |
| 4 | The Judge said that he had stolen Lady Margaret 's ring , and that she had only bought it that day and the ring was a very expensive diamond . |
| 5 | Paul Franklin was sound , and Angela Cartwright confessed that she too had long thought it high time Grunte gave up . |
| 6 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 7 | Occhetto 's position on the Gulf war had meanwhile lost him some support among the social democratic wing of the party , led by Giorgio Napolitano . |
| 8 | She had hardly seen him all day . |
| 9 | He had been sitting at a table in the corner reading an Italian newspaper and Sandison had hardly paid him any attention . |
| 10 | He had always told me that education was a waste of time and he could n't see the point of it . |
| 11 | the first time she had ever asked him that question . |
| 12 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 13 | Astrid , who had once found him such fun , was fed up with his tinder temper . |
| 14 | She had deliberately given him that impression simply because she had n't wanted to look lonely and pathetic in his eyes . |
| 15 | It had further taught them that bomb casualties in Protestant districts frequently included a substantial proportion of Roman Catholics . |
| 16 | Dutifully she and Luke followed Anna and Sam through the house ; they discovered that they had both visited it several times in the past . |
| 17 | The solicitor and member of the IT staff had both given him incorrect advice . |
| 18 | But Minch had often told him that faith in Callanish waxed and waned through time as the wind itself changes through the day , and that eagles often forgot it , and wanted to forget . |
| 19 | She had then wished him good luck with the sale of his book and had quietly shut the door in his face . |
| 20 | They had earlier sent me anonymous letters , I had phone calls from them and our son had trouble at school with their son . |
| 21 | It had however taken me 40 gallons to fly from Duxford down to Stansted and I felt that somehow I was on a loser here ! |
| 22 | Letterman had previously told me that flashback is a device which must be used sparingly , yet now he was a plausible advocate for this treatment . |
| 23 | He had actually hit her this time , she told herself dazedly . |
| 24 | She had never given him any reason to feel suspicious , and she certainly never encouraged any impropriety with the carmen and dockers who came regularly into the dining rooms . |
| 25 | Blanche realised that Robert had never given her any other . |
| 26 | I had never done him any harm , yet I seemed to be the object of a deliberate campaign . |