Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's funny how you can spend every minute of every day with someone , and then never see her for weeks on end , just because you 'd stopped even thinking about her . |
| 2 | Why was it that everyone she 'd met lately seemed to be obsessed with star signs ? |
| 3 | And he said she 'd done more damage with coughing than she had anything |
| 4 | Oh , it was true that Dad and Charles had joined forces with Lucy in a deafening chorus of encouragement , to such a degree that she 'd felt almost piqued by their eagerness to be rid of her . |
| 5 | We 'd got nowhere to go at weekends , and they disappeared . |
| 6 | I 'd thought roughly speaking in that area , yes but |
| 7 | It was a trick I 'd learned never to do without a crash helmet . |
| 8 | It was painful enough knowing they had both let their love for each other slip so easily away , but the speed with which he 'd filled the void she 'd left really cut into her . |
| 9 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 10 | It was bad enough in normal circumstances , but when you had n't slept a wink , when you 'd lain there suffering from shock and disgust , it was more than any normal person could bear . |
| 11 | They had heard loud banging from the boxcars , as if someone was trying to attract their attention . |
| 12 | Before breakfast on Saturday 18 August 1759 Boscawen was in sight of his quarry , or part of it , for eight of the Frenchmen had broken away to make for Cadiz . |
| 13 | It was reported on July 6 , 1990 , that World Bank lending to the developing world had fallen slightly compared with 1989 to US$20,602 million . |
| 14 | Britain 's economic fortunes generally had fallen sharply compared with other western European countries since 1979 . |
| 15 | The aircraft had gone , the space it had occupied now filled with a small single-engined plane . |
| 16 | ‘ What for ? ’ he had looked almost startled by her vehemence . |
| 17 | She had looked faintly horrified at his suggestion . |
| 18 | Glyn had come yesterday , but Shirley had already cooked , and he had looked extremely relieved at that . |
| 19 | By contrast , another tall reputation had looked fully justified at the start of the afternoon when Nashwan 's half-brother Mukddaam , survived a stewards ' inquiry after beating 18 rivals convincingly on his racecourse debut to become favourite for the Derby at 16-1 with William Hill . |
| 20 | Maggie had never been to the big barn before , the one that had looked so imposing from the air . |
| 21 | ‘ He was very friendly and told us other people , but no couples , had come forward claiming to be in his picture . ’ |
| 22 | Orcadai was conducting an inspection in the barracks , and Jehan had come here to wait upon him . |
| 23 | It was clear that this was not what she had come here to talk about . |
| 24 | so you would actually be talking to economists , lawyers and accountants , and very often you had a feeling that the first time they had come together to talk to each other was when the CNAA arrived . |
| 25 | That threat , she said , was the reason why interested parties had come together to work for an improvement . |
| 26 | It was not the first time he had come home covered in blood . |
| 27 | In the early 1680s , although the liverymen of the substantial City companies had not noticeably favoured one party , the Whigs had attracted more support from the lesser companies than the Tories . |
| 28 | He was forced into exile in the mid-70s , after the military government started a wholesale repression of the Indians by attacking their leaders and seizing back the land that they had struggled hard to reclaim under the previous regime . |
| 29 | For more than sixty years my poor old liver and kidney — 1 now had only one — had struggled valiantly to act as a purification plant and sewage works . |
| 30 | As we have seen , old St Paul 's had been in a very poor state of repair even before 1640 , and had suffered further damage as a result of the events of the 1640s before being fatally weakened by the Great Fire . |