Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 2 | By the time I had come downstairs and made it over the mali 's trenchworks , Balvinder had polished the bonnet so bright he could curl his moustache in the reflection . |
| 3 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 4 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps Nigel had come earlier and killed him and then arranged to come back and find the body . ’ |
| 6 | When he felt he had said enough and made us laugh enough , he went back to his dressing room . |
| 7 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 8 | Dad was different ; he had not been the same since that night Alice was out and she had gone downstairs and watched him working on his book . |
| 9 | The owner kept the canvases they had left behind and used them to cover his chicken coops and rabbit hutches . |
| 10 | He had drunk enough and wished he had n't . |
| 11 | Then he walked over to the assemblage of components he had constructed earlier and tore it to pieces systematically . |
| 12 | She swallowed carefully , her mind skittering back to that day at the office when Rebecca had returned unexpectedly and disturbed them . |