Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got no-one here called that … |
| 2 | But for me , soon after the operation , there occurred something so removed from anything I had ever experienced that I have never forgotten it . |
| 3 | As Mary looked at the hole , she noticed something almost buried there . |
| 4 | He did not , as usual , read or stare out of the window or make tea or do any of the things Robert assumed one usually caught teachers doing in off-duty moments . |
| 5 | Firing from the hip , she got one short burst off . |
| 6 | Perhaps , if she made herself useful , he might decide she could stay — for a while at least , just until she got something else sorted out . |
| 7 | Well I got home , I got everything all sorted out , Gary even left a message on the answerphone saying that he 'd be home round about half past two and that |
| 8 | This is good country , with good villages in it , giving you a full exposure to the dark green or red-brown paint , on window shutters or exposed timbers , that creates such a decorative unity among Basque houses — so much so that I recall a feeling of outrage along this road , when I passed one traditionally built house whose paint work was the vilest turquoise . |
| 9 | She raised one delicately plucked eyebrow . |
| 10 | Hearing the stranger 's voice become louder and angrier still , she raised one long booted leg and aimed an almighty kick at the door . |
| 11 | The whole hospital was made up of various bungalows which surrounded one newly built principal building . |
| 12 | The advent of Dutch William in 1688 may have brought a Protestant ruler , but it brought one already embroiled in war with Louis XIV , and ended a period in which the offshore island had played small part in the struggles of continental Europe . |
| 13 | Charles felt something more needed to be said . |
| 14 | A DPP lawyer said a female member of staff was walking through the shop when she felt something hard stuck in her side . |
| 15 | His order has been obeyed if the person to whom he gave it did something correctly described by the words of the order . |
| 16 | I had nothing else planned for the evening . |
| 17 | She knew that he had nearly finished with the Jacobites ; and as far as she was aware he had nothing else lined up . |
| 18 | Or had someone else done it for her ? |
| 19 | Or had someone else found it , perhaps even come specifically to find it , and either destroyed it or taken it away ? |
| 20 | Erm , she asked if we were very keen to involve the school , I said yes we were cos she said nobody really taken a great interest in the Royal Quays not |
| 21 | But why had nobody ever told her that it was quite impossible to keep clean whenever there were any children about ? |
| 22 | Then , just when I had everything nicely rounded off what did this ungrateful creature of mine take it upon herself to do ? |
| 23 | But the absurdity had something else woven through it , some sort of reality , sense of a kind . |
| 24 | Macallister had one clear run at goal in the first half , and looked to have enough speed to round the keeper and score , but instead he pulled up clutching his back . |
| 25 | Léonie had one clear thought : he is pretending I am Thérèse . |
| 26 | It might have been a very worthy course to stay in England and incessantly work for peace : but I had one traditionally acquired or inherited prejudice , which many will think foolish and which may be logically diffilcult to defend . |
| 27 | Oliver had one more shot . |
| 28 | This accords with a remark Johnson made to Boswell as they drove towards Aberdeen : ‘ I might have taken the side of the savage equally , had anybody else taken the side of the shopkeeper . ’ |
| 29 | But when , for goodness ' sake , had anyone ever got excited at the prospect of a cup of tea ? |
| 30 | Had anyone ever taken the mickey out of her because she looked untidy ? |