Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When he recalled how he had felt on first seeing her he had to push the sinful thoughts out of his mind . |
| 32 | Let's go and see it , he had said , and she had recoiled at first . |
| 33 | He had ‘ guested ’ for the Palace effectively during the 1st World War and proved his ability in the best possible way for Northampton Town against us in the two seasons immediately after it so , when Manager Edmund Goodman needed a duality centre-forward to replace Bert Menlove , who had moved to 1st Division Sheffield United in March 1922 , he acted with decision and haste . |
| 34 | Dave Wise had moved in next door a month ago . |
| 35 | It found that in the 3 years since the first survey , crime had moved from third place to the top of people ‘ s list of problems affecting their neighbourhood . |
| 36 | He had converted one of the outhouses into a sort of workshop where he tinkered with a collection of small engines , antique lighting plants and water pumps that he had bought for next to nothing at country auctions over the years . |
| 37 | She rose from her knees to face two pairs of eyes in which hope had died at last . |
| 38 | During the Autumn Term of 1981 a Memorial Service was held for Mr. A. Johnston , who had died on 22nd July . |
| 39 | Engineers , it was often said , only carried out ideas that other people had thought of first . |
| 40 | If your household is likely to expand in any way it might be cheaper in the long run to buy a larger model than the more modest affair you had thought of first . |
| 41 | Or so he had thought at first , hearing her voice , looking round the well-furnished rooms , the shelves full of old china figures , in her polished house . |
| 42 | He was altogether too handsome , she had thought at first . |
| 43 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 44 | He had thought at first that the man was lost and required instructions , but realised after the words had blown away that it was a quiet inquiry for cash . |
| 45 | Thomas had thought at first that it was a shadow . |
| 46 | A chance , too , perhaps , to sort out the business deal they had talked about last week . |
| 47 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 48 | She would like to get her own back for that row she had got into last October . |
| 49 | I wished I had got in first by telling her I no longer found her sexually attractive . |
| 50 | The earl had got in first on this wonderful anchorage , and the advantage remained with his town . |
| 51 | Downing Street had originally put in a request for the Bridal Suite , only to discover that Jeffrey Archer had got in first . |
| 52 | Though he was a college Conservative of a patriotic and nationalist kind , he had shown at first no sign of the bitter and obsessive anti-Semitism that became the hallmark of his speaking and writing . |
| 53 | My friend of the South coast of England days , a Corporal Chauvet , informed me in his usual quiet manner that the two Troops of French Commandos , numbering almost two-hundred men , who had landed on 6th June were now , due to casualties , down to about sixty-seven men . |
| 54 | And then a log broke in the hearth , sending sparks cascading , and the shadows leapt , and Grainne remembered all of the old stories , and could almost have believed that the ancient Ireland had awoken at last ; that goblins and satyrs and cloven-hoofed , pointed-eared creatures were prancing in the room with them . |
| 55 | As for Meredith , she forgot about him once she had ventured at last into the supermarket . |
| 56 | He had arrived at last . |
| 57 | Jared and Mary Tunstall had arrived at last in London , summoned by Orrin when it became apparent that Sally-Anne could not be traced . |
| 58 | The heyday of scientific economics had arrived at last . |
| 59 | Half the fleet had arrived by last night , including the joint services yacht Satquote British Defender , which was beaten for eighth place by only 37 minutes by the first of the three Finnish challengers , Martela OF . |
| 60 | Shelby did n't like Ferrari ; like plenty of others before and after , he had experienced at first hand Enzo Ferrari 's withering contempt for lesser mortals . |