Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rampant stags looked odd balanced on twigs among foliage , and so did exquisitely made seabirds , puffins and razorbills . |
| 2 | And you did have the odd team of people like Don and Tina who o obviously had n't done things before . |
| 3 | The financial interests thus gelled into four organizations that soon became instantly recognized household names and logos . |
| 4 | The thin-faced man with a Slavic face in the seat nearest the exit door at the front already wore specially made fur boots of a curious design with pointed toes . |
| 5 | The committee already had prematurely exalted views of its importance , for it deferred to the next meeting the question of how to apply to the King for royal patronage — patronage of an institution which had no actual existence . |
| 6 | Frances Foote-Wood , Liberal Democrat northern regional organiser , said mail in Stockton had been sent to the wrong areas and in Bishop Auckland constituency some people still had not received leaflets yesterday . |
| 7 | Eliot 's letter of 22 October confirmed that he still had not received details from the Club ; but he understandably felt that while he could accept our invitation to tea , he ought to reserve his position about dinner . |
| 8 | In August , when the builders still had not started work , I decided to move in September , ready or not . |
| 9 | India 's Foreign Secretary , S. K. Singh , however , rejected at the standing committee meeting a proposal to open SAARC to external bodies , on the grounds that such a move would be " premature " when the association itself still had not entered areas of co-operation such as trade , industry and finance . |
| 10 | Conversation had now become difficult , and Diane still had n't given Pete a definite answer to his question . |
| 11 | His black hair sprouted at all angles from his scalp and he still had n't found time to shave . |
| 12 | When she arrived back I found out that she still had n't told Steve . |
| 13 | Lucy who possibly had n't given Jay a thought in four weeks ; she certainly had n't woken with Jay 's face in her mind , slept with a dream of Jay in her arms . |
| 14 | Villa bath houses usually had carefully decorated interiors . |
| 15 | Bough tried to put his troubles behind him as guests arrived for a lunch yesterday held behind drawn curtains . |
| 16 | But it omits a crucial sentence that appeared in the scientists draft report which read : ‘ These figures appear to be minimum values because a ) the decrease in the isotopic ratio in blood probably had not reached equilibrium in 1979 and b ) they reflect solely the contribution of the petrols affected by the lead isotopic ratio change , ’ |
| 17 | Similarly , the absence of aphasia following an appropriately localised right sided lesion also implies left sided speech . |
| 18 | The loss of the two ports was serious , as the English now had only limited access to Normandy and to the capital , Rouen , which had come to replace Paris . |
| 19 | When working with unconnected script , the samples of writing studied often had unnaturally spaced characters and words . |
| 20 | 1.4. b BEds customarily had quite extended language courses ( 13 Colleges and 8 Polytechnics had courses of 20+ hours , while only three had less ) . |
| 21 | He simply had n't had time to lay one of his spectacular contingency plans or clever traps . |
| 22 | The EC simply had not got matters organised . |
| 23 | Most of the people here had hardly known Sylvie . |
| 24 | Few here had ever set eyes on the man they were mourning , but they saw in his act the ultimate sacrifice for their dream of independence . |
| 25 | Piggy unfortunately had also got diarrhoea caused by the fruit . |
| 26 | Lully had already essayed recitative in French in a ballet , Les aisons ( 1661 ) : and the comédies-ballets gave him plenty of opportunities to experiment further . |
| 27 | Shankly had previously managed Carlisle United , Grimsby Town and Workington . |
| 28 | It was , he claimed , a piece of bitumen which assuredly had once formed part of the hull of Noah 's Ark , and had great value in the averting of mischief . |
| 29 | Norwich-Birmingham had already been tried , with locomotive-hauled stock , but putting together the services which previously had separately linked Liverpool , Warrington Central , Manchester ; Blackpool and Manchester ; Sheffield via the Hope Valley line ; Nottingham , Grantham , Peterborough , Ely and Ipswich/Norwich and Harwich Parkeston Quay , was a bold move from which has developed a popular route on which much new business is emerging . |
| 30 | He stupidly took off on the outside of a wave when someone else had already established priority on the inside . |