Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The only vehicles he 'd seen here so polished were hearses . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Deep down she knew that she should apologise for what she had said , but she 'd had enough today to last her a lifetime ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I wish he 'd lived long enough to meet you . ’ |
| 6 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 14 | She hated excessive make-up and had applied just enough to emphasize her striking looks . |
| 15 | Clothes that had hung well now fell shapelessly like charity hand-outs . |
| 16 | Posters advertising Knock pilgrimages that I had seen nearly always mentioned ‘ matchmaking ’ as part of the attractions . |
| 17 | Much of what he had seen so far confirmed the assessment of the Imperial survey — that the stage of development Tarvaras had reached was equivalent to that which was thought to have existed during the Terran medieval period . |
| 18 | That devil , born of isolation , he had seen so often destroy young men through exhaustion , frustration and despair . |
| 19 | The 1350s had seen relatively little fighting at an ‘ official ’ level , but the decade had witnessed the growth , in both numbers and size , of bodies of soldiers who , although sometimes finding local employment , more often than not roamed the countryside in search of adventure and the easy pickings of war . |
| 20 | In truth she had done remarkably well staying out of her clutches for the past three days , but then , she reflected ruefully , Adam had kept his promise , staying practically glued to her side . |
| 21 | I assess the student 's ability and level of performance , and I might come to the conclusion that they had done pretty well to get those grades ; or it might be obvious that they could have done better . ’ |
| 22 | As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head . |
| 23 | One would go too far in saying that by Civizade 's time a scholar could achieve greatness solely through office ; but at the least , such a distinction as that made by Karamani Mehmed Pasa had become almost impossible to make , since greatness ' and " office " had grown so closely intertwined as to be inseparable . |
| 24 | However , the Ombudsman found that the UK and Gibraltar funds were closely linked and that , if the Department had moved swiftly enough to revoke the UK licence , the Gibraltar fund could not have continued to exist . |
| 25 | Yet , tragically , the marriage which had promised so much became empty and joyless in later years . |
| 26 | Although no clear winner emerged from the debate , most commentators believed that Clinton had performed well enough to consolidate his position as the leading contender . |
| 27 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 28 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
| 29 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 30 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |