Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would come out I 'd got a first at London University . |
| 2 | as if I 'd hired a familiar for the crime . |
| 3 | Instead , after I had anointed a few of the more important Poles with precious substances , I built a dam system . |
| 4 | They were two of the biggest lunatics he had ever met , and he had met a few in his time . |
| 5 | I realized I had seen a few of these same processions on my way north through eastern Czechoslovakia , in Ovitkov and in Ostrava . |
| 6 | Cricket director Bob Cottam said : ‘ Leaving him out would be the equivalent of dumping a batsman who had made a hundred on his Test debut . ’ |
| 7 | Tony had had a 68 to Jack 's 66 , so the lead was cut to 7 , and sure enough they met up again on the 6th and 12th greens . |
| 8 | We 'd played with Ray Floyd who had had a 78 on the first day . |
| 9 | She had had a few in her short life and none of them had been pleasant . |
| 10 | The constant mortaring and shelling of the area had dislodged a few of the corpses and the flies and mosquitoes were everywhere . |
| 11 | I had hired a moped in Tiree , there being no bicycles left , and like a multicoloured Batman Snoopy in my Mary Quant cape arrived at the Balemartine Baptist church for morning service . |
| 12 | Benny had smiled at her but again it had seemed a little as if it were expected . |
| 13 | Moreover , Charles Darwin 's revelations about out bestial beginnings had dealt a severe to Victorian man 's self-image . |
| 14 | At Oxford he had gained a First in Greats , for which , according to a contemporary , he had worked as if he were taking a chartered accountancy exam . |
| 15 | He had gained a half-Blue for athletics at Cambridge , was a member of the MCC and played tennis regularly at Hurlingham until stricken by illness . |
| 16 | The book is dense with tables and text , and one rather wishes that Thomas had illustrated a few of the more photogenic Ca-dependent events . |
| 17 | Oh , he had greased a few of the Old Bill 's palms over the years , such as the Chief Constable 's , but they were both in the Masons . |
| 18 | Dave had taken a six at the 17th from nowhere . |
| 19 | She had been horrified at the botch Ruth made of it and Ruth had begun to wish that she had taken a few of Hester 's proffered lessons . |
| 20 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |
| 21 | They had tried a few in the Fahan Lodge Hotel after sailing back the night before , been seen off by two ugly English girls ( Morally ugly , said Rory — they would n't screw ) and had roared into Buncrana in the BMW and done the High Street bars . |
| 22 | The average wage in 1950 ( £6. 8s. 0d. ) had almost doubled by 1959 ( £11. 2s. 6d. ) but by then the pound had lost a third of its value . |
| 23 | The Australian has lost more majors than most have won , and Faldo , who had fired a 68 for a six-under 274 , ruthlessly carved out a four at the sudden-death 18th . |
| 24 | Very tired but excited that we had covered a third of our journey . |