Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Hill had queried Miller 's description and had published his views in Eden , or a Complete Body of Gardening ( 1759 ) and Justice retaliated in his British Gardener 's Calendar ( 1759 ) : ‘ I thought it my indispensable duty to give Mr. Miller his due , both from a love of truth and from a sense of gratitude to him for his public labours , as well as private friendship . ’ |
| 2 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 3 | The argument raged for days , then Richard suddenly declared that he would not marry Alys because she had been his father 's mistress and had borne him a son . |
| 4 | He wished now he had not given her what he believed to be a very beautiful nightdress , creamy and ruffled : he had seen her look at Frederica 's books and had understood what he had half-sensed on the occasion of Frederica 's telegrams , her sense of loss . |
| 5 | It was something about the old man 's attitude that had made him cry . |
| 6 | No , it was her father 's attitude that had shocked her . |
| 7 | It was more than a legal victory for Taylor when the judge told the skinhead that it was only his brief 's eloquence that had saved him from prison . |
| 8 | The officers had examined the window in Zambia 's showercub but had considered it too small for hir to escape through , the wall outside too sheer . |
| 9 | In 1900 she made between 80 and 90 per cent of the world 's dye and had quintupled her sulphuric acid production since 1880 . |
| 10 | Timothy Gedge had looked through the window of Miss Lavant 's bedsitting-room and had seen her pretending to give Dr Greenslade a meal . |
| 11 | During the farmer 's eulogy I had been distractedly scratching the cow 's tail and had soiled my hand in the process . |
| 12 | But Elizabeth read women 's magazines and had offered them quiche and Coronation Chicken and melon balls in wine glasses . |
| 13 | Holly coming back to the bench after an hour 's walk that had taken him to the ski jump where the young people gathered to watch the first of the winter 's athletes propel themselves into the dizzy air flows . |
| 14 | Furthermore , Curzon 's behaviour over the fall of the Coalition was fresh in men 's minds and had made him a lot of enemies and few friends . |
| 15 | The actor Esmond Knight who was an RNVR officer in the new battleship Prince of Wales gave a dramatic account of the arrival of the Bismarck 's salvo that had blinded him ( though he continued to act after the war and performed in The Red Shoes with Moira ) . |
| 16 | Was it just entrepreneur 's hype that had made him say ‘ do n't want to ’ rather than ‘ ca n't ’ ? |