Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I dealt with the conditions and consequences of affluence , ’ he explained , ‘ under which the existence of the poor had been buried , the poverty I had set out to write about got pushed further and further towards the back of the book . |
| 2 | The boys , being the largest , managed to grab them , while we got pushed further and further to the front , nearer to the teachers . |
| 3 | This guy was great though we met in Ireland cos he was erm he used to own about three or four supermarkets , er small chains and he just one day , he 's about he 's about fifty eight , sixty now and one day he said about five years ago he just got fed up and just walked out . |
| 4 | She goes Dear Doctor Allen , My Mum and Dad went out the other day and I was bored so I started rubbing my dog and my dog got turned on and so did I . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , how was I to know you were n't a sex-mad pervert who 'd broken in and hideously raped you before coming after me ? ’ |
| 6 | The only man to whom she 'd felt driven to surrender her virginity … the man she 'd fallen hopelessly and irrevocably in love with … ? |
| 7 | Even before the film had wound on , he 'd looked down and away , so that I could see only his forehead and his grey hair ; and within two seconds , he 'd walked towards the grandstand and out of my line of vision . |
| 8 | He 'd walked round the engine sheds , he said , where he 'd looked long and lovingly at the old locomotives , and where he 'd seen schoolboys and middle-aged men carefully recording numbers and wheel-arrangements in their note-books . |
| 9 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 10 | Well he 'd got up and then . |
| 11 | Oh yes , erm I think it was generally , er , they had to match the colouring of the rooms that they 'd got , the furniture they 'd got really because as far as the room was concerned er when , when the , new houses came onto the erm , ready for occupation , er they were all cream coloured inside and anyway and pale cream so they , they 'd got er any choice they wanted there it , really it was just to match their curtains , match their carpets , all their furnishings and erm , of course I suppose they , the rose coloured ones er went better than say the lemon coloured one and that because er people just er liked the idea of moving into a place that 's got a nice cosy glow in it , place sort of thing , but we never sell any at all , there 's , none of that type of fitting in , sold now . |
| 12 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 13 | And Liberal leader Paddy Ashdown 's popularity actually increased after the revelation that he 'd dipped more than just a toe into the typing pool . |
| 14 | Well they 'd gone off and before Anthea had gone and I was still fiddling about getting the windows clean . |
| 15 | And he 'd appeared suddenly and endearingly shy , as if embarrassed at the memory of seeing her naked in his bed the night before . |
| 16 | She 'd paid bitterly and dearly for her unshakeable loyalty . |
| 17 | She 'd paid up before so I could n't see why she was refusing to do it again . |
| 18 | from there and now course they got shipped out and then they used to be a ship as well , used to take it to sea called the |
| 19 | ‘ And Bartlemas almost got arrested more than once … ’ |
| 20 | He observed all these happenings but wrote : ‘ Dogs : four including the one that got run over when only six months . |
| 21 | Like Morrissey in 1977 , many in Manchester felt left behind and even fairly close friends found it difficult to gat close to the band . |
| 22 | And then they stopped it and it got spread about and then blah blah blah and then it came well it spread all through Europe and |
| 23 | A southern Italian , he had taught up until now in a village near Naples and could not speak a word either of Slovene or of Triestino . |
| 24 | Perhaps then the current expanding universe resulted not from a big bang singularity , but from an earlier contracting phase ; as the universe had collapsed the particles in it might not have all collided , but had flown past and then away from each other , producing the present expansion of the universe . |
| 25 | His sister had come over with her family from the next valley and was standing just behind him ; Shaun had flown home as well , a taller , broader Wayne-that-might-have-been , but he had n't yet come out of the church . |
| 26 | The producer paused for a moment to make sure he had heard correctly and then burst out laughing , flicking a nervous glance at Terry . |
| 27 | Endill thought he had given up when suddenly the rope became taught . |
| 28 | This year Jenna was going on holiday with Glyn , a fact which brought a twinkle to the bright eye of her scheming neighbour Shirley , but they were not lovers , no matter what Shirley thought , and Jenna had pondered long and hard before agreeing to the holiday . |
| 29 | But McLean told the jury that she had joined in and also stamped on Mrs McMullen 's stomach and throat . |
| 30 | La Clemenza di Tito is one of the last of the opere serie , a genre which by then had fallen more or less totally out of fashion . |