Example sentences of "[subord] [indef pn] [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A brilliant moon flooded the whole valley in white bright light , so that the houses and cottages stood out like toy models , relieved here and there by squares of glowing orange where someone had failed to draw a curtain . |
| 2 | Douglas burst open the door into the first , where somebody had lit a lamp . |
| 3 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 4 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |
| 5 | Although everyone had tried to persuade Victoria that spending the summer with her cousins in their untidy house at the edge of the moor , would be a wonderful adventure , she was not convinced . |
| 6 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 7 | And she needed that sort of help ; because although nothing had happened in the four days since Adam had returned from Starr Hills , the nights were becoming more than she could bear . |
| 8 | When the Royal Bank bought the building in 1825 it had been the Government Office of Excise and quite correctly bore the Royal arms , although no-one had got around to updating them . |
| 9 | Once everyone had drunk a mug of hot strong tea , he sent his own men out to feed and check the stock which was kept down at Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 10 | Once everyone had disembarked , the sergeant-major warned them to prepare for a fifteen-mile route-march . |
| 11 | Once everyone had claimed their rooms and strewn their possessions around to secure occupancy , Star Eye scattered into the streets , leaving Leila and Ari alone with Nathan . |
| 12 | Once someone had pointed it out to me , together with its next door neighbour , as an example of a building style peculiar to this little area of Surrey . |
| 13 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 14 | She had brought them to a place with snakes , although none had appeared to alarm the children , snakes or secrets . |
| 15 | Once one had accepted the initial premise of statements about witchcraft , the processes of thought could be shown to be the same as those entailed in scientific thought . |
| 16 | Now , coiled here , she thought it was not Phoebe 's fault , it was the dullness of being an adult ; it was the natural flavour of the world once one had said goodbye to childhood . |
| 17 | Another remarked that once one had seen the ostriches ( he meant the ospreys at Loch Garten ) , the Aviemore Centre , and been up in the chair lift to Cairn Gorm there ‘ was n't anything else to do ’ . |
| 18 | Once one had given birth one could never really be free . |
| 19 | Once one had slipped , no helping hands would be extended . |
| 20 | All right for Jazz , cap or not , for his dark body had a natural grace and he could swim far better than anyone had suspected . |
| 21 | Rounding up the elephants and trying to count them was a hellish job , much more difficult than anyone had foreseen because of the vast area , the confusing vegetation and terrain , and the impossibility of labelling the beasts or keeping track of them once they had been found and counted once . |
| 22 | On his second , at Phoenix , Arizona , Mansell lapped two-tenths of a second faster than anyone had gone before — and on race specification tyres rather than the softer , short-lived qualifying type used by the previous fastest . |
| 23 | It had been pleasantly surprised to find that , after years when nobody had bothered to find out , political control over the investment decisions was more direct than anyone had realized . |
| 24 | Halfway through 1979 the Ashleys finally moved into the main part of the château ; it was not completed for another two years and was to prove a far more major project than anyone had realized . |
| 25 | He realised that the power required to rotate an optic , even the large ones , was less than anyone had assumed . |
| 26 | In Britain the birth rate ‘ Bulge ’ , which hit its peak in the late Forties , went down more slowly than anyone had expected . |
| 27 | In addition the infrared detectors have proved to be much more stable than anyone had dared to predict . |
| 28 | If everyone had waited until they could promise their children a safe life , the human race would be extinct . ’ |
| 29 | It is as if everyone had decided to follow to the letter the advice sent out to UDF candidates by Jean-Pierre Raffarin , the centre-right party 's expert on political marketing . |
| 30 | Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , UK manufacturer of intelligent input/output controllers has pulled out of ACE : marketing director , Ian Cummins says ‘ ACE was initially a good idea if everyone had worked together . |