Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [art] big [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake . |
| 2 | Of course , she 'd made a big fuss about not having a Brownie ‘ Nuform ’ , but she calmed down when Mum let her wear her new blue party dress . |
| 3 | She 'd got a big bust . |
| 4 | Now that was her excuse but there is some evidence to say that she 'd got a big investment in weaving machine and I think she was a little bit worried er that these might take over from . |
| 5 | And he never forgive me for this you see because he were a big noise you know , he he 'd got a big business in . |
| 6 | Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah |
| 7 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 8 | So you 'd had a big breakfast and it 's still normal which implies you 're going to be fine , now |
| 9 | We 'd received a campaigns update from central office and had registered the big box pile up campaign with that campaign coordinator . |
| 10 | He was genuinely delighted that , in spite of last night , she had won the big race . |
| 11 | The owner of the stall reminisced about old Wadi Halfa where his father had owned a big tea-house on the Corniche . |
| 12 | He had owned a big department store that had burned down , and he had then hanged himself . |
| 13 | Not a few men lost teeth because they had met the big man at the wrong moment . |
| 14 | She had made a big mistake , but now it was over . |
| 15 | Mama had made a big kettle of soup . |
| 16 | The young Irish champion had made a big impression on his regular cross-channel trips last season , and a place with Swift or Van Diemen had been earmarked for him ever since he stunned the British series regulars by winning the opening round of the 1992 championship . |
| 17 | The night before his death I had bought a big bunch of red carnations to put in my room with the lighted candles we were now writing by , to please Dana . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I remember after we had had a big success at Covent Garden with Elektra he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Birgit , for the first time in my career I get good notices here in London ! ’ |
| 19 | In my grandmother 's house I had had a big bedroom ; here I had to share . |
| 20 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |
| 21 | And there were calls for the theatre to close as it had become a big drain on local council finances . |
| 22 | During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star . |
| 23 | Tonight , in a rare moment of good judgement , he had hired a big band whose music would not drive his older guests out into the night . |
| 24 | It had proved a big advantage . |
| 25 | ‘ It was the strangest game I 've played in — as if the crowd had stuck a big syringe in me and sucked all the energy out , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Norwegian television had followed the big race the previous year and about 100 kilometres from its end had stopped the leader to interview him . |
| 27 | We had finished a big dinner in Chicago around midnight . |
| 28 | It was cold but not too cold , and dammit , I had caught four fish with hardly any effort ; fish that had taken a big crust with a savage bite that suggested they were very hungry . |
| 29 | Their circumstances had changed : Mr Singh had a full-time job , they had taken a big step and purchased their council house and Mrs Singh now felt that she needed permanent work herself . |
| 30 | And you had to get , get a bit of paper and you drew a straight line , straight line , see like that , and if he had two white legs you put a cross , two white see , if he had a long one , he had put a big cross , if he had a long , two long white leg , if he had me behind you put a cross . |