Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capt Forgrave 's citation said he ‘ became widely respected by all sides as a courageous , totally honest and highly capable officer . ’ |
| 2 | I became intimately acquainted with some of those I met , and the lives and habits of many others naturally came under observation . |
| 3 | Sutton people became so enraged about this , that the Pope eventually became involved . |
| 4 | Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | I think she 'd rather gone off this Yank . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd rather taken against this woman — she was frightfully solid and know-it-all and not funny , you know — and to be difficult I asked her how she knew this , thinking that she would quote out of some boring manual or other . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 8 | I was only on the drug for seven days and by the seventh day , I 'd suddenly turned into some sort of maniac . |
| 9 | We could sit in a meeting in the Sit(uation) Room and be discussing these other activities , and fall into almost a kind of , you know , warp in which you would n't know whether you were talking — I mean , the use of shorthand and so forth in the discussions you could n't tell whether we 'd suddenly slipped into this question of selling arms to get them back this way or whether we were still discussing the other thing . |
| 10 | I suppose they 'd all gone in half a minute but it seemed an eternity of fascination and fear to a cringing youth . |
| 11 | It 'd just grown out that , I knew |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 'd just got opposite that poor woman 's house , and I glanced up at it . |
| 13 | Then , towards the end of August , Eachuinn Odhar got the message he 'd not expected for another month . |
| 14 | ‘ Doctor Andrews told me that he kept on saying how much he wished he could have left you enough money to live on ; but , as you know , nearly everything he possessed he 'd already bequeathed to that French museum which he started himself . |
| 15 | The trap had been beautifully set , and he 'd only avoided it because thanks to Bartocci 's machinations he 'd already fallen into another one . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd already thought of that , ’ Laura told her gloomily . |
| 17 | They found material for both these purposes in the work of many anthropologists , but on the whole the writings of Morgan seemed best suited to this twin task . |
| 18 | He 'd always thought of that as a cliché before he met Emily . |
| 19 | She 'd hardly changed at all . |
| 20 | I would n't have been the first guy he 'd ever seen at that hour . |
| 21 | Wondering what on earth I 'd ever seen in that … that — for a moment the description failed her — that ruthless , dangerous stranger . |
| 22 | She was still feeling somewhat shaken an hour later — she was going to Prague — and with Ven ! — when suddenly she realised that she 'd barely moved since that phone call . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd completely forgotten about that . |
| 24 | She was a make-up artist , for goodness ' sake — she 'd seen any number of half-naked male actors in her time , but she 'd never reacted like this before . |
| 25 | The local man said he 'd never heard of such a thing . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd never suffered like that , not to the extent where tears were pouring down my face for no apparent reason . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd never thought of that , ’ replied Mcduff . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've got to hand it to you , Angel , I 'd never thought of that technique , ’ said Bunny with genuine admiration . |
| 29 | I 'd never thought like that before . |
| 30 | There was , however , an instinct in him when it came to Judith that he 'd never experienced with any other woman . |