Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The YCs got punished more than anybody else and had a really hard time . |
| 2 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 3 | It was the same roaring she 'd heard just before she and the cottage were swept away . |
| 4 | She put four mince pies in a little basket she 'd decorated earlier when she made the other table decorations , put on her coat and was out of the back door in a flash . |
| 5 | Lisa might have responded that over the past few years she 'd endured more than her share of character-building challenges . |
| 6 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 7 | And er I suppose he he 'd gone there when he was about thirteen fourteen and er he came from a family from Where was it . |
| 8 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 9 | Lucenzo looked up as if he 'd only just realised she 'd slipped away , and seemed taken aback when he saw her . |
| 10 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 11 | They 'd cruised past when they arrived that afternoon , just after four o'clock , and seen Tommy standing on the doorstep . |
| 12 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 13 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 14 | He did not say it loudly and she was not sure she had heard right so she continued . |
| 15 | A recent survey of BHRCA members found they had joined principally because they wanted an effective voice to put the industry 's case to Government . |
| 16 | Grimm 's attitude to Moma Parsheen had altered drastically since she revealed her sabotage of Stalinvast 's future . |
| 17 | A miracle had happened but the miracle had fallen flat because you could n't have miracles these days , because nobody cared , not even a clergyman . |
| 18 | He was now part of a coalition with people who had held cabinet office in Stormont and , more than that , his party had polled better than one led by an ex-Minister . |
| 19 | He had protested strongly when her call-up papers came . |
| 20 | He worried about that , but even if it had succeeded simply because it was just another of the ridiculous and unbelievable antics in a ‘ Carry On ’ film , succeed it did . |
| 21 | The woman said it was not true and the god asked her why she had come tonight if she thought that his words were ‘ mere wind and breeze ’ . |
| 22 | He had come here as she guessed he would . |
| 23 | Philippa had come early because she wanted to get in in the hope of finding an earring she had lost , before the cleaner started on the room . |
| 24 | Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host . |
| 25 | The telephone had rung just as she 'd finished washing her hair , so it had dried all wild and was now held back with an orange-and-shocking-pink striped scarf , off which Ethel had chewed one of the corners . |
| 26 | To her surprise Broom-Parker had phoned shortly after she 'd returned home , pleading with her not to mention his name to the police . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , forensic experts have been carrying out a thorough examination of the lonely cottage where Jonathan and Tania had met shortly before she disappeared . |
| 28 | Kate was the first member of the Force he had met socially because he wanted to . |
| 29 | For someone she had met only once he had had a remarkable impact on her . |
| 30 | Within a short time , however , most of Reagan 's proposed changes had foundered either because they were inherently unworkable or because of his failure to consult with those who would have to approve the necessary changes in the law , i.e. members of the state legislature . |