Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 2 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 3 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
| 4 | Right okay if it was X cubed that would have given me three times too much |
| 5 | ‘ But you still have n't given me any reason why I should marry you . ’ |
| 6 | You ai n't given me any tickets lately . |
| 7 | I mean Jim was saying that Winston has given them two weeks off so |
| 8 | Their mighty spells and fiery blasts have won them many battles when sword and spear might not have prevailed . |
| 9 | The surging crowd had carried me some rows back from the front . |
| 10 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 11 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , the authoritarian nature of the regime has won it many enemies both inside and outside the country , creating an atmosphere of suspicion and intrigue amongst the educated elite . |
| 13 | She had discarded it several years ago , as being much fuller than she really liked , but everything came into its own , she reflected , for every article purchased she took pride in finding an eventual use . |
| 14 | And then later on , oh and then she was going to see room bookings and try to find me another dining hall cos I said it 's pretty late notice , and she said oh no , it 's a week and I thought well I had booked it two months ago . |
| 15 | I do n't like any of them and then when you 've seen them all day long it puts you off a bit do n't like none of the |
| 16 | The Hurricanes were to land at Hal Far aerodrome and I circled that aerodrome until I had seen them all land safely . |
| 17 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 18 | How can you , when you 've only met them five minutes ago ? |
| 19 | Eliot 's death of the corrections to his original writings , and then the corrections that Ezra Pound made , and Ezra Pound has made them ten times better . |
| 20 | The south-western desert states ( Arizona , New Mexico , Nevada and Utah ) have largely escaped the current recession , having suffered theirs five years ago . |
| 21 | A lot of women write and say I wish I 'd met you 20 years ago . |
| 22 | ‘ If I 'd met you three years ago , ’ he told her harshly , ‘ maybe things would have been different . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't suppose that 's made you many friends back in the lab . |
| 24 | He was n't married ; Charlie knew he was n't married ; knew moreover that his steady had chucked him two weeks before . |
| 25 | She had made him some breakfast about 7.30 . |
| 26 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 27 | He had done it many times before . |
| 28 | For swiftly , and with such adroitness that Fabia felt he must have done it many times before , in no time , and before she could blink , Lubor had caught her in his arms . |
| 29 | I hope she had n't done it that Saturday when we all were outside and we watching |
| 30 | Harry had done it ten years ago ( 37 ) b . |