Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christ , Clare was even fit at the time ; she 'd given up doing coke and taken up healthy shit like running and swimming . |
| 2 | The BEA planning and design procedures , far from cutting this back , sometimes seemed designed merely to codify delays . |
| 3 | Boy called Daniel could n't write Daniel cos all last year he 'd been allowed to put Danny an he 'd forgotten how to write Daniel ! |
| 4 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 5 | Or maybe he 'd gone back to patch things up with his fiancée ? |
| 6 | He 'd gone out to play tennis ; then he had a lunch meeting in the city . |
| 7 | If he was normally quite a kind person who 'd taken up robbing banks because he was short of cash they could put jam on his bread and vodka in his water , and if he was a horror they could empty the potato peelings over him whenever they felt like it . ’ |
| 8 | Leith waited , very much wanting to invite Travis to join her and Naylor on their walk , but one glance at Naylor — who seemed determined not to invite Travis himself — told her that she 'd regret it if she did . |
| 9 | For that reason , I came determined not to paint buses and taxis . |
| 10 | For that reason , I came determined not to paint buses and taxis . |
| 11 | A cluster of keys which they 'd never found doors to fit ; instruction documents for a blender he 'd burned out making midnight margaritas ; a plastic bottle of massage oil . |
| 12 | Forester had been perfectly correct , the happenings at Langstone had been gross and illogical ; he 'd chosen simply to deny involvement and ignore them . |
| 13 | Alone in the dining room — for Twomey had stopped softly jangling spoons and forks and fitting plates each to each , and gone , quietly as his shadow — Nicandra 's mind became a perfect blank . |
| 14 | He had given up writing poetry and had been living the duplicitous life of a critic deciphering his own works , but when he fell in love with Howard 's wife Elizabeth his former self was reawakened and he ceased to believe in his own existence . |
| 15 | But she had given up telling Gloria about what went on each day . |
| 16 | Defries , who had given up threatening Daak with a court-martial for assault , voiced the same fear . |
| 17 | He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story . |
| 18 | Local ethical committee approval was obtained , and all patients had given fully informed consent to the procedures . |
| 19 | Earlier in the day Jaguar shares had fallen back to close 46p down at 685p as speculators cashed in their stock for large profits . |
| 20 | Then her face cleared ; when she had leaned across to kiss Richard she must have nudged it off , and no doubt she would find it in her car when he brought it back in the morning . |
| 21 | Indeed , just before his interview with Meese , he had dropped in to see McFarlane in his office precisely , McFarlane thought , to agonize over the fact that the diversion was a matter of record : ‘ I put it in a memo to the Admiral . ’ |
| 22 | She was to call him Tom from now on , he had said … she had walked him to his car after he had dropped in to see Faye over lunch . |
| 23 | Rosie jumped and people who had taken no interest in Ruby since she had sat down made excuses to walk by the diary desk and see what she was up to . |
| 24 | Back at the hotel , after finally conceding that there was no way out of her financial dilemma other than to go to work for G.W. Fashions , Lisa had demanded , as Vass had sat there drinking coffee , oblivious of the callous blow he had inflicted , ‘ So , how long is this arrangement supposed to last ? |
| 25 | For days the team had sat out harrowing gales and -50C temperatures , waiting to go for the top . |
| 26 | She had come here to meet Silas , but definitely not to set her cap at him . |
| 27 | Even McPhee , the Assistant Commandant , had noticed it and that morning he had come along to see Owen . |
| 28 | And then a woman who had come in to sell flowers to the customers overheard their conversation and intervened . |
| 29 | Dexter was glad they had come back to see Lancaster at the end of the day . |
| 30 | Harrison had come back to propose marriage . |