Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Posters advertising Knock pilgrimages that I had seen nearly always mentioned ‘ matchmaking ’ as part of the attractions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 8 | The RPC had been successful in getting its policy adopted by the ILP Conference but had become too closely associated with the Communists to receive continued support from the ILP . |
| 9 | But as minister of finance under Zahedi he had become too well known for negotiating the new agreement with the oil companies , and so the Shah had exiled him to the Washington embassy . |
| 10 | Western Pomerania had become almost entirely Germanised , and had a Polish population of less than 0.5 per cent . |
| 11 | By the time of Anselm 's death the question was essentially settled and Anselm 's successor Ralph was fighting in a hopeless cause : by the time of Ralph 's death , the instruments of universal government had become sufficiently highly developed to make all that Lanfranc and Anselm had stood for in this aspect of their work a thing of the past . |
| 12 | Darren had become much more attached to his mother and she was showing much more affection towards him . |
| 13 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation had become very well established and the United States of America continued to be committed to it , as well as Britain , Canada , France , the Benelux Countries , Greece , Denmark , Norway , Ireland , Portugal and Turkey . |
| 14 | By this time the law relating to the protection of the king 's deer within the ‘ purlieus ’ or forest outskirts had become more clearly defined . |
| 15 | The Physic Garden had become so well stocked with rarities as to rival any other garden in Europe . |
| 16 | After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts . |
| 17 | He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling . |
| 18 | If the above conditions were not acceptable , then those officers who had recently joined should be allowed to return to their original units as the terms on which they had volunteered no longer applied . |
| 19 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 20 | Building contractors and employers soon became aware that the contracts into which they had entered no longer made provision for those situations which were beginning to arise : but new standard forms were slow to emerge , and it is only in recent years that these have proliferated . |
| 21 | Lerroux , believing that the pendulum had swung too far left in 1931–3 , was now hoping to draw irreversibly into the Republican fold the conservative forces largely represented by the CEDA . |
| 22 | Bob Greener died in February 1970 and the club he loved and had served so well printed a moving obituary in the Programme for 21 February 1970 . |
| 23 | She had left so much undone . |
| 24 | As though mirroring her mood , the day which had started so well turned to rain mid-morning . |
| 25 | One section of loyalists correctly forecast that the proposed constitutional convention was an exercise to buy time and that the Westminster government would ignore its recommendations as cynically as it had ignored earlier constitutionally expressed wishes of the loyalist majority . |
| 26 | I had learnt enough so returned to my own chamber , secured the lock and , fully clothed , lay down for a fitful sleep . |