Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Clothes that had hung well now fell shapelessly like charity hand-outs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As she lost the thread entirely , all thought of telling him the work she had done so far went out of her head . |
| 6 | Yet , tragically , the marriage which had promised so much became empty and joyless in later years . |
| 7 | Her pity for the man she had hurt so deeply made her behave more kindly towards him than was perhaps sensible . |
| 8 | The tendency of sergeants to follow the field-worker around and to ask what she had learnt also soon dissipated as the routine demands of their job became a more pressing priority . |
| 9 | After Morris came Joe Karam and as the 70s went on and on Mains kept playing to his high level for Southern and Otago , but that All Black place he had held so briefly seemed to get further and further away . |