Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You only saw heard a bit of it . |
| 2 | Urban calls for a tax on farm income were ignored , although Aziz did announce the taxation under certain conditions of military and police welfare foundations ( which hitherto had run a wide variety of tax-exempt businesses ) . |
| 3 | Even before Hello , Dolly ! went into production , Richard Zanuck had agreed with Gene Kelly and producer Frank McCarthy , who together had made A Guide for the Married Man , to team them up again for a screen version of the fantasy Tom Swift and His Wizard Airship . |
| 4 | He had painted a greeting on the front and inside had drawn a picture of an animal and signed his name . |
| 5 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 6 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 7 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 8 | Her last comment had sounded flippant , a little bitter , as if she begrudged the fact that he could afford all this , when in reality she had just said the first thing that had come into her head because he was close and because she had felt his love of the land and in doing so had glimpsed a part of him that was unknown , disturbing to her . |
| 9 | I told you Connelly had bought a warehouse . |
| 10 | The idea of going to France and turning into reality something which for so long had seemed a dream was now a concrete possibility . |
| 11 | Whereas Robert Rauschenberg already had produced an erasure of a De Kooning drawing in the early 1950s , Kienholz assembled his Odious to Rauschenberg in 1960 . |
| 12 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 13 | THE England manager , Keith Fletcher , said rowdy behaviour by sections of a frenzied 45,000 crowd watching the third and final Test in Bombay yesterday had marred an otherwise perfect performance by India . |
| 14 | We always had given a concert . |
| 15 | It was Morse himself , too , who at 8.30 p.m. had called a halt to everything . |
| 16 | But the Hilder revealed itself , running down like a tinsel thread , crossed at one point by stepping stones , at another by the massive stone pillars that once had supported an aqueduct bringing water to the buildings of the Goughdale Mine . |
| 17 | His brothers certainly were not as they formed a conspiratorial circle round Mike in the other corner of the yard , which all at once had become a boxing ring . |
| 18 | The company also had made a lot of new product introductions , he added . |
| 19 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
| 20 | He had a point there , his reluctant listener admitted , Rose probably had kept a key . |
| 21 | The apparatus that emerged from the period of constitutional ferment that now ensued featured an elected national assembly ( Majles ) as before ; a Revolutionary Council composed of senior clerics and some lay figures involved in the Shah 's overthrow ; a president of the republic ; and a Council of Guardians , whose task was to pronounce upon the Islamic qualities of any candidate for office and on any proposed course of action . |
| 22 | The Carolingian minuscules in which they typically appeared represented a hand developed in Europe . |
| 23 | Bunny was frowning ; the woman , who the night before had worn a bow in her hair , stared obliquely at Meredith . |
| 24 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 25 | She really had made an effort to accept Rune 's invitation for the three of them to attend the firm 's party on the eve of their campaign presentation , but at the last moment her nerve had failed her . |
| 26 | ‘ At first he did n't believe us but when he realised we really had found a baby and came back with us to have a look . ’ |
| 27 | Mr O'Connor said the campaign so far had taken a lot of time and effort , with mixed results . |
| 28 | I had not yet learnt that every German soldier from private upwards had had an elementary political education which made this sort of argument child 's play for him . |
| 29 | Opposition spokesman Roger Stott today hit condemned a move by Labour 's ruling national executive to investigate further the extent of support in the province for a Labour Party organisation . |
| 30 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |