Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 2 | The only vehicles he 'd seen here so polished were hearses . |
| 3 | Sometimes one or other would misuse that privilege and perhaps shout more than was otherwise seemly , ‘ but the fact that we 'd grown up together meant we could have our rows and know that the next day one of us would apologise , and it would all be forgotten . ’ |
| 4 | She had clung to the doll tenaciously , until the awful feeling she 'd had once before stole up through her little body from her feet to her head , and the next thing she knew she was lying on the floor with her head in Ma 's lap . |
| 5 | Deep down she knew that she should apologise for what she had said , but she 'd had enough today to last her a lifetime ! |
| 6 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 7 | You see we divide our time between London and Cornwall and I 'd stayed up late to watch the film with only one light burning . |
| 8 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 9 | I wish he 'd lived long enough to meet you . ’ |
| 10 | By the time I reappeared , Lisabeth had cheered up enough to smile weakly , having adopted the invalid-on-the-sickbed routine . |
| 11 | Angie Bowie : ‘ The Christmas before recording ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , I had flown back home to see my parents . |
| 12 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 13 | A piece of verse he had heard long ago came drifting back to Carew ; the lament of some long dead , long forgotten Irish poet surveying his ravaged country . |
| 14 | Stephanie had broken off breathlessly to announce this in English to Anneliese , adding with a determined glitter of hostility in her eyes , ‘ What time does your flight go tomorrow , Signorina Hastings ? ’ |
| 15 | It was at that moment that the couple whom Guido had pointed out earlier finished paying their bill and headed out to the car park . |
| 16 | Karen King — because she was English , Jessica insisted — had given over even thinking about them , let alone imagining what they might do with their hard , lean bodies and their tired , rope-burned hands , had given over bothering to deny she 'd had such fantasies . |
| 17 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 18 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 19 | Polls suggested that Kennedy 's approval rating amongst his Massachusetts constituents had fallen so dramatically following the episode that he might fail to secure re-election in 1994 . |
| 20 | Depression clamped itself round Melissa 's head and shoulders and the meal she had enjoyed so much lay like a stone in her stomach as she drove home . |
| 21 | She had looked round once to see if her guests were all in situ and observed that almost all the chairs were occupied . |
| 22 | He had looked so utterly contented then , surveying his growing flock , his flock , not just the flock he had care of , but his own , Abbott 's sheep driven down to market on the Isle of Bute by his men , shepherds in his employ . |
| 23 | He had played in Spain but after a car accident had come back here to recuperate . |
| 24 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |
| 25 | Perhaps he had discovered a seam — did you have a seam of garnet ? — and had come back secretly to exploit it , and … |
| 26 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 27 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 28 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 29 | From Gordon Thomas 's evidence to the Royal Commission it is obvious that he had carried out much research into an improved canal , including technical planning , estimates of costs and market studies into the expectations of more traffic . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Hunt had carried out further costing work for Barry on the Houses of Parliament , and when Hall arrived at the Office of Works with the dispute over expenditure between Barry and the Office at its height , he shrewdly persuaded Hunt to change sides in an attempt to gain the upper hand . |