Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , after a time , she began to think — when he was so collectedly friendly — that she had imagined more than had really happened , or had imagined it all . |
| 2 | ‘ It was the fact that you needed to be told that made telling you impossible . ’ |
| 3 | After the trials of Halton , Cranwell was a haven , With my pay now being nearly 30 a week , I invested in a motorcycle — a square tank Rudge of questionable vintage — for £4 ( at a pound a week ) , but soon cured myself of the motorcycle bug that seemed to affect us all at the time . |
| 4 | And in his opinion that meant sending it all the way to Sotheby 's whose rural saleroom in a stately home in Billingshurst , West Sussex , has made a speciality in recent years of sales of garden furniture , fittings and statuary . |
| 5 | The survival of the Iraqi dictator is not just a blemish on the landscape : it is a long-term danger to all the regimes that dared to oppose him two years ago . |
| 6 | It was that kind of care that had kept him alive so long . |
| 7 | But that was before doctors switched off the ventilator that had kept him alive ever since he ran in terror from one IRA bomb into the full force of another . |
| 8 | He drained it at a draught and threw it back , the dark mood that had kept him silent from Ivrigar falling away . |
| 9 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 10 | She did n't tell him the rest about her father and Camille , or the thoughts that had tormented her that long night . |
| 11 | But the sound that had startled me awake was different . |
| 12 | The heat and strength of him that had alarmed her that first night now enthralled her . |
| 13 | He had n't said anything that had given her any indication that he actually cared for her . |
| 14 | Crossing to the Grand Gendarme , we hardly paused at the rock step that had given us such a problem earlier . |
| 15 | His eyes , in their now puffy setting , came back to her , and there was a trace at last of the old look that had warmed her all those years ago . |
| 16 | It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own . |
| 17 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
| 18 | It was n't congenital stupidity that had made him susceptible to human jurisdiction , it was anguish . |
| 19 | Sydney said that he was very pleased that someone should want to take the time , money and effort to operate a Great War aerodrome and expressed his thanks to Torquil , Vic and all that had made it possible … |
| 20 | Dr Tariq did not vouchsafe to the Colonel the news that had reached him that morning , that a Frenchman , home on leave , had sent by letter his resignation . |
| 21 | The fact that had struck them both , however , was the date the genotyping had given for the conception of the boy : a date which coincided with a visit Wyatt , Berdichev and Lehmann had made to a singsong house in the Clay . |
| 22 | She realised she was being too serious , a problem that had plagued her all her life . |
| 23 | It was his profession that had brought him that shaft of insight , and he felt mildly safer because of it . |
| 24 | But Arsenal began to display some of the tidy , organised football that had brought them four consecutive victories and they were rewarded with a superb equaliser 16 minutes from time when Campbell latched onto Martin Keown 's long pass , ghosted past two defenders and hammered the ball home . |
| 25 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 26 | The road accident that had left him lame had also worn him down . |
| 27 | He had woken from his brief sleep , emerging out of nightmares that had left him drained and sickened . |
| 28 | It was their talk on the cliff-top as the sun had gone down that had changed it all . |
| 29 | In their personal lives there had been parallels that had drawn them close and formed a bond between them ; not least the loss of both their wives some ten years back . |
| 30 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |