Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without any more information to go on it was impossible to revise my image of the way the world worked or had done all my life . |
| 2 | And that one that got sent away he , he learnt a certain job which he 's done in ever since and he 's done very well at it . |
| 3 | Of course it was him that had messed up his diary , drawing those stupid pictures in it . |
| 4 | I was trying to get away , but she started telling me everything she knew about Kobolds , everything that had happened when she 'd flown one , everything that had happened when somebody she knew had flown one , everything that had happened whenever anyone had flown one . |
| 5 | The one good thing that had happened too him in his life had come in the form of Jane . |
| 6 | No , he 's gone to a play at the college and a yeah I was er like when I realised that had come on I thought does he know ? |
| 7 | Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa said the Israelis had been intransigent and had done all they could ‘ to make the peace conference and the talks a waste of time . ’ |
| 8 | She was sitting on her futon , bent over her feet , and had turned down her stereo because Brian had just marched in and requested her to do so . |
| 9 | Molly had stood beside him and had pointed out one particularly small drawer close by the door . |
| 10 | But Conran had decided not to soft-pedal in the US and had made up his mind to make a big splash immediately , which required large investments which it took years to recoup . |
| 11 | Lear was beginning to find the strain of lithography — ‘ this lampblack & grease work ’ , as he later called it — intolerable , and had made up his mind to become a landscape painter . |
| 12 | It was only after we had settled in and had sorted out our luggage that we realised that although it was still broad daylight , our watches told us that it was nearly two o'clock in the morning ! |
| 13 | And George had found her apparently asleep , and had slept uneasily himself , impatient to get the whole matter properly thrashed out , hoping to discuss it in the morning . |
| 14 | He had been best man at their wedding — a formidable pre-nuptial agreement had been necessary for that capitulation — and had carried out his duties with a mixture of incompetence , vulgarity and irreverence which , as she occasionally enjoyed telling Norman , had spoilt for her the memory of her big day . |
| 15 | It transpired that Clive had received no formal sexual education and had learned almost everything he knew about sex from Companions and sex magazines . |
| 16 | perhaps , Allen told her doubtfully , the outlaws had heard the expedition was starting and had put out their fires as before ? |
| 17 | She was born in the reign of Queen Victoria , suffered malnutrition as a child and had brought up her own children in poverty . |
| 18 | To this was added the proviso that the GLC had not acted arbitrarily and had considered both its duties to the ratepayers and the statutory duties imposed by the 1969 Act on it and on the LTE . |
| 19 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 20 | She had never seemed that keen on the idea , and had set out her conditions in Madrid on membership . |
| 21 | It 's no fun standing on the relegation trapdoor , but United brushed aside their problems and worries and hit Newcastle where it hurt ; in the net . |
| 22 | It had started as a game but had taken over their lives , almost . |
| 23 | I was not , for once , wearing my battledress trousers , but had put on my uniform skirt with my battledress top . |
| 24 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |