Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dean gazed affectionately at her : a tall , handsome woman whose company he 'd enjoyed immensely for thirty-five years . |
| 2 | ‘ Some current proposals seemed designed primarily as job-creation schemes for lawyers , ’ he said . |
| 3 | In a game dominated by the conditions , with the ball skidding off a greasy surface , United won convincingly by three goals to nil , despite playing with ten men for seventy eight minutes of the game . |
| 4 | It had , in fact , been sent to a counsellor by a client who 'd moved away before finishing therapy . |
| 5 | I 'd caddied there in 1978 , but I needed to get the feel and my bearings . |
| 6 | For years she 'd sympathised hugely with those performers who 'd become stricken with nerves just before going on stage — she even knew one world-famous name who regularly had to rush back to the dressing-room from the wings to be ill . |
| 7 | Why did you attack them ? ) ; but as she opened her eyes again her whole mind seemed drawn away from such matters , towards the warrior who stood before her . |
| 8 | He was a good journalist and one I 'd known professionally for many years . |
| 9 | Yet she 'd walked right into this marvelous chance , with no mother who would get jealous of her with the baby , only this bunch of doctors to deal with . |
| 10 | Even now , three weeks after she 'd driven away from that little cottage near Glenshee , he was still imprinted on her heart like a brand . |
| 11 | So I picked him up and I carried him , Dorothy had gone out the wrong door , instead of going out the door at that end she 'd gone right along this long corridor |
| 12 | He then missed a sitter during a subsequent defeat at Ibrox that probably made him wish he 'd gone AWOL before that match , too . |
| 13 | Apparently , whenever she 'd gone close to this man he 'd shooed her away , recoiling from her and muttering , ‘ Pork , pork , pork , VD , VD , white woman , white woman . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 15 | Mait seemed taken aback by this outburst . |
| 16 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 17 | Water utilities began mixed ahead of final figures for some companies due this week . |
| 18 | Going extinct some 30 million years before T. Rex , it was about 16 metres long , weighed about 4 tons and walked crouched forward on three-toed back legs . |
| 19 | So the Labour Party got united then at that time ? |
| 20 | ‘ We got hit hard on basic ethylene cracking , and the polyethylene business , aided and abetted by overcapacity ’ , said Sanderson . |
| 21 | You 're telling me that blokes we arrested , blokes we stood in court and saw sentenced , blokes we saw driven away in fucking armoured vans , have committed the exact same crimes that they were put away for ? |
| 22 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 23 | Short-term employees lived cramped together in shabby , draughty one-room huts or ‘ bothies ’ . |
| 24 | so when I got up half past six and I got shaved now at last , gon na go and get ready and pull the curtains back , oh what a of rain , I says oh I says |
| 25 | She blinked and scoured her brain desperately for a neutral topic of conversation to deflect his attention , but the question which emerged proved far from neutral . |
| 26 | From the moment that Brian McClair , the first player Mr Ferguson signed when he took over at Old Trafford , put United ahead after 14 minutes there appeared only one winner . |
| 27 | These evicted workers joined other newcomers to the now rapidly industrializing Berlin to live in the massively expanding properly urban working class districts outside of the Mitte — thus the population of ‘ red ’ Wedding increased ten-fold to 254,000 between 1871 and 1913 ; the population of the Rosenthaler Vorstadt , much of which is now East Berlin 's Prenzlauerberg , increased seven-fold to 319,000 in 1913 ; and the population of Stralauer Viertel and Königsviertel , much of which now is Friedrichshain , increased taken together between three and four fold to 489,000 . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course it 's Silas , ’ Bertha had exclaimed irritably within five minutes of Lucy 's arrival at the large house nestling among trees and gardens in the most expensive area of Hastings . |
| 29 | The ministers whom the bishops had placed instead of those ejected were very poor in both their spiritual quality and ministerial ability . |
| 30 | Caro 's widowed mother had remarried only in recent years and her new husband already had four children , all grown up and living away from home . |