Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The harbour looked mysterious : the sun had broken through but mist still lay over the docks . |
| 2 | I felt that we might be able to establish peace by other means until he had grown up and become more readily identifiable as top dog by Stan . |
| 3 | The latter had grown rapidly and become well known for its imaginative if sometimes desperate tactics . |
| 4 | Jessamy 's knees had immediately begun to shake , and she had wheeled round and run out . |
| 5 | A knowledge of the Russian language had become more widespread ( over 81 per cent of the population were fluent in Russian according to the 1989 census , up from 76 per cent in 1970 ) ; and the circulation of printed matter had increased considerably and become more evenly distributed between one republic and another . |