Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little later , he 'd looked down avenues of faces , hoping it might be Helen . |
| 2 | He 'd picked up dysentery at a game fair in Hampshire ! ’ |
| 3 | She said to Rourke , ‘ You wanted to know if I 'd lent out keys to anyone — the telephone engineer , you said , and the man who came to see to the new extension around the back . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So it could hardly have taken you by surprise that she 'd started up life with a different partner . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
| 6 | He had meted out vengeance to his chief enemy , Grant , so any further attack upon mere pawns would be unnecessary , therefore illogical . |
| 7 | Mrs Burrows nursed Betty through a dangerous illness when the doctor had given up hope on her . |
| 8 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ But it made a difficult situation impossible , caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then , although in difficulties , neither of them had given up hope of saving . ’ |
| 10 | Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land . |
| 11 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
| 12 | If anyone had given up hope in life , it was I. ’ |
| 13 | Two years earlier Jones had given up work as a hod carrier when Wimbledon signed him from Wealdstone for £10,000 . |
| 14 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 15 | He backed it not just because he was convinced by Rueff and his advisers that it would reduce inflation and revitalize the economy through the stimulus of competition , but because he was attracted by its theatrical elements — the symbolism of a new franc to mark a new political order , the grand gesture of carrying out commitments to Europe that the Fourth Republic had given up hopes of honouring , the rhetoric of a coherent plan of renovation as opposed to a collection of policies . |
| 16 | Paul Hardyman ( full back ) : A few months ago Hardyman was down in the dumps Sunderland had shelled out £350,000 for another left back , Anton Rogan , and his days at Roker looked numbered . |
| 17 | It had conjured up visions of arcane Celtic stews bubbling mysteriously in metal vessels , and bitter rowan-beer strengthened by the bodies of songbirds . |
| 18 | He had carried out work for Palmerston at Broadlands in 1856 , and in the dedication of his book , Architecture Numismatica , published in 1859 , he described Palmerston as ‘ the enlightened advocate of classical architecture ’ . |
| 19 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 20 | Previously the authors had carried out research on paraprofessional social service personnel in their own two countries — Israel and the USA ( Brawley and Schindler , 1972 ; Brawley , 1975 ; Schindler , 1980 ; 1982 ) . |
| 21 | Orders had pushed up men on top of men and set up a living wall against the monstrous German avalanche . ’ |
| 22 | It was said that he had turned down promotion to sergeant , in return for being allowed to play cricket for his county . |
| 23 | It had scooped up armfuls of holiday bookings following the the collapse of Harry Goodman 's ILG group , which had taken with it one of Airtours ' biggest rivals , Intasun . |
| 24 | For Leconte , who only four months earlier had undergone back surgery for the third time in little more than two years , it had seen the re-birth of what was — and can be again — a gloriously entertaining , as well as effective , career . |
| 25 | Before Cameron and Menzies left they had written down lists of safe houses , sources of milk and meal , and secure points further west . |
| 26 | The extreme diehards had written off Law as the dupe of Lloyd George because he did not come out fighting against coalition policies , hence the witticism that the coalition was an alliance between a flock of sheep led by a , crook and a flock of crooks led by a sheep . |
| 27 | Much time is spent by teacher-librarians in secondary schools in giving pupils busy introductions to reference books and library catalogues , and we saw in Chapter 3 how tutor-librarians in technical institutions along Hertfordshire lines had built up programmes of instruction in all aspects of information-seeking . |
| 28 | In the late eighteenth century , John and William Hunter had built up collections of anatomical specimens for teaching purposes ; the Hunterian Collection in London became one of the sights not to be missed by the intellectual tourist in the early Victorian period , when Richard Owen was in charge of it . |
| 29 | Rather chastened , she 'd taken the seat indicated while the travel consultant had tracked down flights via her VDU , gratefully accepting the more expensive club class when nothing cheaper proved available . |
| 30 | A Le Monde report of Feb. 12 had cited refugee sources in Kenya to the effect that ex-President Barre had handed over arms to the SPM in the south . |