Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] and [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only he had known enough , he might have come privately and hoped for a reward ! |
| 2 | Their twelve-year-old son had crept downstairs and listened at the door . |
| 3 | The two catheters were taped together and passed through the nose into the stomach . |
| 4 | Two weeks later the same students were called together and reminded of the questions they had been unable to answer . |
| 5 | The lawbreaker has disturbed this equilibrium of equality and gained an unfair advantage over those of us who have behaved well and abided by the rules . |
| 6 | ‘ The idea is for them eventually to be restored completely and turned into a working museum , ’ said Mr Rawlinson . |
| 7 | Some commentators have gone further and pointed to the relatively high proportion of UK production which has been exported and to the high ratio of exports of GDP in international terms . |
| 8 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 9 | Automatic weighing machines are very accurate and sample packs are taken regularly and weighed as a check . |
| 10 | More people could have been seriously hurt if a passenger had n't leapt forward and slammed on the brakes stopping the coach hitting a wall . |
| 11 | The cross was constructed specially and came off the church roof with Crawford as he was winched away by a Wessex helicopter . |
| 12 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 13 | The system will be held together and policed by a franchising authority and a rail regulator . |