Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] and [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you were a cox who 'd overeaten and put on too much weight , this is where your crew might have brought you — to Brakspear 's brewery on the river bank . |
| 2 | The Kawasaki cut through to St Paul 's as I 'd expected and accelerated up towards Holborn . |
| 3 | She 'd grinned and tossed back her pony-tailed head . |
| 4 | If I 'd turned and walked out of the Moebius Strip , none of this would have happened . |
| 5 | So unexpected was her appearance that , for a moment , until she 'd moved and cried out , he 'd wondered if she was real . |
| 6 | I decided it was something I 'd eaten and went back to sleep . ’ |
| 7 | I would have understand if he 'd dived and got out their way and the wind just blew it the other end . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you say this was the main road ? ’ she 'd felt compelled to ask , as they 'd zigzagged and ricocheted off massive pot-holes at what felt like Brands Hatch speed . |
| 9 | She 'd go and offer to help , when she 'd changed and popped in to see Lucy … |
| 10 | He says , ‘ All right , 125 ’ ; and then after ten minutes he says , ‘ On your way , ’ so I got dressed and went out and thought , ‘ Now I 'm for it , ’ but I heard nothing more . |
| 11 | The electrodes that had been implanted in its brain had been removed ; the scars from the surgery had healed and grown over with fur . |
| 12 | He was not sure how she would take it , leaving the house before they had intended and moving up north ; also , in the last few years he had got into the habit of sparing her any unnecessary decisions or arguments . |
| 13 | Her subconscious had registered and clung on to those unfortunate comments made during the course of the operation . |
| 14 | Once again Sabine had the curious sensation that time had stopped and run back . |
| 15 | The first book , A Plea for the Faithful Restoration of our Ancient Churches , was based on a lecture that he had given and came out in 1850 . |
| 16 | Just for a moment , standing by the window , dropping the edge of the curtain he had lifted and turning back towards the cot , Adam saw the picture again , saw it with an awful clarity on the darkness before his eyes . |
| 17 | Colour came back into his weathered cheeks ; the volcano of prophecy that was known to burn in him had cooled and crusted over . |
| 18 | Artemis much preferred things that were real , such as the injured squirrel she had rescued and nursed back to health , and her pet hen Jemima whose broken leg she and Rosie had mended , and who every now and then was allowed up to the nursery . |
| 19 | The Prince was becoming enthused , and as he grew more confident about the area he had targeted and took on more projects , he began to make increasingly serious and significant speeches . |
| 20 | When Patrick had stormed out of the room , his head pounding , bile in his throat , he had started for his room , but then he had thought of Jane , and he had turned and headed back down the hall towards the room she shared with her sister . |
| 21 | She had seen and lived in lots of houses far superior to this one , it implied . |
| 22 | Nobody appeared to show the least surprise when Charles appeared in Service Dress after his servant had arranged a room at the farm for the change and a hot water wash after a little light work on the trench system , trenches that bore every resemblance to those he had seen and read about as constructed in the First War . |
| 23 | Upset by what he had seen and casting around for someone to blame , he translated his guilt into aggression and resurrected the threat of marriage to Sien as a supposed solution . |
| 24 | He was on the rocky slope he knew already from more than one climb , and somewhere here on these smoother protected faces of rock were the plans he had scratched and pondered over so many months ago . |
| 25 | At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the Ark , that he had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 26 | He had made and sent out a raven which came and went until the waters upon the earth had dried up . |
| 27 | Aisha 's annual visits home had sown the seed of travel in my spirit and this seed had grown and opened out and reached my eyes and tongue . |
| 28 | The warm ache had expanded and drowned out any reasoned responses . |
| 29 | But as the Portadown man was about to leave the jail he was told that his mother had died and ordered back to his cell . |
| 30 | Peter Mueller 's experience brought him no great success , either racing or on the French roads ; the new roundabout in Bourg St Maurice , on the road to Val d'Isere , had nearly caught us out , and later we heard that Mueller had crashed and written off his car . |