Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair . |
| 2 | She taught , pressed for prison reform , and helped set up charitable houses for elderly , epileptic , and incurable women . |
| 3 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 4 | She had been descending the stairs when she 'd slipped and had fallen down numerous steps . |
| 5 | One night we had sat up late while Mum and Dad were at The Golden Cup and had cut up old Christmas decorations into tiny squares and diamonds and then hidden them in envelopes . |
| 6 | He was the scourge of socialists and revolutionaries , and had carried out numerous assassinations for monarchist factions of the Balkan countries . |
| 7 | The CVR , also known as the Rettig Commission after its chairman Raúl Rettig , a former Supreme Court judge , had been set up in April 1990 and had taken over 4,000 testimonies during its research . |
| 8 | Later , on July 25 , Blix said that three inspection teams had so far visited more than 30 sites in Iraq and had taken over 300 samples of nuclear material , but that " there are many more things to answer " . |
| 9 | A good choice could give you years of pleasure : the oldest authenticated Koi was a Higoi owned by Dr Komei Koshihara which , at the time of its death in 1968 , weighed 16½ lb and had clocked up 217 years . |
| 10 | Some Victorian market towns acquired a pronounced industrial character , especially after the railways had provided cheaper raw materials and had opened up distant markets . |
| 11 | During the war , Aziz claimed , Kuwait had advanced into Iraqi territory and had set up military establishments and oil installations . |
| 12 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |