Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 2 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 3 | In France the system was much more centralized , and it might be that the stiffness of the Napoleonic system was one reason why France had lost to Germany the prominent place she had had at the beginning of the century when that system was set up . |
| 4 | If they 'd settled at the beginning we would n't have had to go through this battle . |
| 5 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 6 | Dismissed in the last months of his life as a spent force who would not match the powerful energy invested in the compositions which he had created at the beginning of his nine-year career , Basquiat briefly recaptured , by the unhappy circumstances of his death , an image of glamour and a wave of speculation which pushed the prices of virtually unsaleable pictures to $500,000 . |