Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Pain ( flying P3731 ) : ‘ This was a brawl with some 15 CR 42s in which the entire flight got mixed up some miles out to sea at about 18,000 feet between St. Paul 's Bay and Sliema . |
| 2 | Dorigo and Kelly got caught out many times on Saturday , the central defenders are suspect , so the full-backs should be helping them not leaving them more exposed . |
| 3 | She taught , pressed for prison reform , and helped set up charitable houses for elderly , epileptic , and incurable women . |
| 4 | We got turned over last Saturday but I thought we showed great character out there today . ’ |
| 5 | He thinks oh I 'm allowed I got chucked out last time . |
| 6 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 7 | She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |
| 9 | Chris 'd pointed out this addict that hung around the theatre café : he stank like mouldy meat and his skin was terrible , so spotty it was almost rotting away . |
| 10 | Reynolds will also serve another 2 years in custody for an unrelated street robbery he 'd carried out 2 days before the crash . |
| 11 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 12 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 13 | It was the usual sequence : we 'd picked up this batch from the mass grave , in the woods , and stood waiting by the van on the approach road while the carbon monoxide went about its work . |
| 14 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 15 | Even before Saturday Night and Sunday Morning pushed him to the front of young British actors , he 'd turned down post-RADA contracts with Rank and Associated British Pictures Corporation . |
| 16 | And I never knew there was actually a proper song to it , I thought it was one we 'd made up junior school . |
| 17 | , so I put her out in the end it erm it was surprising everybody knew what was going to happen they knew what I was going to do right when I come back in after swi place was empty they 'd got out that door before I 'd got her out the door but erm no it 's it 's very insulting . |
| 18 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 19 | Yeah I 'm sure you 'd packed up last time I saw you . |
| 20 | But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology . |
| 21 | She 'd gone in first thing but could n't face the idea of working . |
| 22 | Because we 'd worked over that seam of conversation at infrequent intervals , in exactly the same order . |
| 23 | In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with |
| 24 | It was also how he 'd overheard me and Kenny the barman talking and drawn his own paranoid conclusions which had led to both me and Kenny wishing we 'd taken out medical insurance . |
| 25 | The alarm in Leeming 's face was obvious ; the confusion that followed brought on another bout of coughing . |
| 26 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 27 | Speaking of which , did anyone read how Chapman got sent off last night ? |
| 28 | One day she had plucked up enough courage to look through the doorway , and had almost choked on the clouds of swirling dust . |
| 29 | Hess commanded a troop ship during the Second World War and the vessel 's echo sounder had traced out curious mountains on the floor of the Pacific . |
| 30 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |