Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got badly lost in the dinner party scene . ’ |
| 2 | These tendencies became especially marked in the canal mania of the 1790s when , according to an enthusiast in 1796 , " perseverance having vanquished prejudice , the fire of speculation was lighted and canals became the subjects of general conversation " . |
| 3 | There is , though , one large disadvantage that became much discussed in the eighties : standard-class seats do not match the window spacing . |
| 4 | ‘ It was really in the 1920s and 1930s ’ , recalls Environment 's Manager Christopher Nell , ‘ that London Underground became highly regarded in the fields of design and architecture . ’ |
| 5 | She looked round her bedroom and saw that David had left his wristwatch on her bedside table ; the scent of the citrus aftershave he used still hung in the air and when finally , in despair , she turned and buried her head in the pillow , the bed beneath her was still warm with the imprint of his body . |
| 6 | There seemed little left in the match except the question of whether Wright would get the 36 runs he needed for 5000 in Tests , in what was rumoured to be his last appearance . |
| 7 | The Thorns lived there , newcomers who 'd only moved in the year before . |
| 8 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 9 | But to have to sit here and pretend interest in an endless parade of painted mannequins wearing bored looks and the ridiculous fashions he 'd already glimpsed in the huge sketches plastered on the wall as decorations — Nicolo shifted again . |
| 10 | She 'd always believed in the strength of her parents ' marriage , the power of its mutual affection . |
| 11 | And this Mr was so taken aback , by me going in and asking for a job , and they 'd always advertised in the paper before , that he said , Well , she must want work if she 's gone after it . |
| 12 | He asked the old man if he 'd ever worked in the sandpaper factory and added that he 'd probably be going to work there himself when he 'd finished at the Comprehensive . |
| 13 | Some novelty value because he was the first Russian they 'd ever had in the car , but that was all . |
| 14 | There he halted , staring down into the flames , but his stillness had a taut , barely restrained quality that kept her heart beating much too fast , and though he seemed totally absorbed in the glowing fire Isabel sensed he was aware of her every movement . |
| 15 | Most of the food was of a kind that she 'd never seen in the shops ; there was no wine or beer , but Belov had a hip-flask of vodka . |
| 16 | I think a lot of it was to do with the fact that I 'd never driven in the dark before . |
| 17 | A cool breeze drifted through the open window , carrying with it the sound of water trickling softly from the old stone fountain they 'd painstakingly renovated in the inner courtyard . |
| 18 | This disposition became more complicated in the early sixteenth century . |
| 19 | Probably a Sam and not a Selina Kettering , she thought , and the signs of an absentee male landlord 's domination became more pronounced in the final paragraph . |
| 20 | This pattern became more pronounced in the 1960s and 1970s , as did the division between North and South . |
| 21 | As the image of home became more sentimentalised in the nineteenth century , one 's entry into the world of affairs appeared more threatening and the promptings of prudence suggested deferred gratification . |
| 22 | This pattern became further exaggerated in the early 1970s when the cores lost population even more rapidly . |
| 23 | The teacher kept half an eye on her all the time and noticed that the child very soon became deeply absorbed in the book . |
| 24 | my father dreaded really hit in the new place — not |
| 25 | Here , in the seemingly endless expanse of clear blue , hundreds of fish hung strangely suspended in the water , the nets that held them all but invisible . ’ |
| 26 | You indicated that er in a sense the strike became well organized in the sense it had a great deal of support erm both moral and material and presumably financial . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the image of an out of control , imperial president became well established in the early 1970s and contributed much to the strong backlash against presidential power that bedevilled Ford and Carter . |
| 28 | Her elder brother Giles ( 1612–1663 ) became well known in the 1650s as a printer of Quaker literature . |
| 29 | This would account for the singular lack of internal buildings , even though a civilian element may have remained among the population as the sharp distinction between fort and town became increasingly blurred in the fourth century . |
| 30 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |