Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin then remembered some chocolates he 'd received anonymously a month earlier . |
| 2 | ‘ The high school I was at was among the first to have a tiny in-school radio station , news , views , interviews and a touch of music , and consequently we 'd attracted quite a bit of somewhat condescending attention from real stations around town . |
| 3 | I was about to respond that she 'd added quite a lot to the letters , but Masha came out of the bathroom . |
| 4 | But it was that 's what it that 's where er you know , there was he had been quite successful in this lawsuit you know , he 'd made quite a bit of money . |
| 5 | Anger was n't something he 'd felt even a flicker of . |
| 6 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 7 | The day had been warm , and since it was n't , he decided , an occasion for dressing , he settled for a light linen suit which he 'd worn rather a lot ten years ago in New Zealand . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 9 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 10 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 11 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 12 | He 'd cleared away a lot of last autumn 's leaves . |
| 13 | Alan Sked put forward a plan for European union , endorsed by the Group 's council , that eschewed bureaucratic federalism . |
| 14 | To aid his election campaign , Roosevelt had gathered together a body of men and women who became known as his Brain Trust , mostly from the universities . |
| 15 | Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more . |
| 16 | You see we had heard quite a bit about him — the locals boggle at the way in which he does n't dodge his taxes . |
| 17 | Having spent hours daydreaming about Portugal and Dom João , she had given scarcely a thought to the alternative . |
| 18 | She knew that , without meaning to , she had given away a lot of her life and thought , and wished she had not . |
| 19 | Mr Penna told the inquest : ‘ A fact which obviously must be considered is that the deceased by any standards had consumed quite a lot of alcohol . ’ |
| 20 | In the weeks before Christmas , the agent was starting to sack staff , some of whom had joined only a week before the order was issued . |
| 21 | Reports citing delegates said that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia had been particularly reluctant , ostensibly on grounds of cost , to endorse large numbers of permanently stationed Egyptian and Syrian troops and had favoured instead a commitment to deploy forces rapidly to the area in times of crisis . |
| 22 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
| 23 | I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ? |
| 24 | Some of them had come quite a way , from Phobos , even , people I knew when I was still hustling for my white card . |
| 25 | I had come home a day early . |
| 26 | The Docks Board was the biggest company in the ports industry and with its Southampton operations and its Humber and South Wales ports had secured about a quarter of the market . |
| 27 | The couple had met just a couple of months ago and appeared completely devoted . |
| 28 | Ellie tried to imagine how her mother must have felt as she had left Ireland by boat , to sail the Atlantic and marry a man she had met only a handful of times . |
| 29 | The UGT , the CCOO and the Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations ( Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales — CEOE ) agreed at a meeting with Solchaga on Dec. 27 to recommence talks on a social pact which had foundered almost a year previously [ see pp. 36406 ; 36777 ] . |
| 30 | But sometimes she had seen just a glimpse , a fragment , of an unknown person , deep and inward-looking , complex , full of contradictions . |