Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] and [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out . |
| 2 | After I got started and into the conversation I felt a lot more comfortable . |
| 3 | Finishing with a par 4 Stevie had won and on the morrow would be presented by the Princess with his Golden Putter . |
| 4 | Creggan hesitated to tell her but she seemed different from other vagrants he had met and in the last few days a trust had developed between them , so it seemed natural to say . |
| 5 | All through the 1960s the package holiday market had grown and by the early 1970s they accounted for nearly half of all overseas travel . |
| 6 | And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four . |
| 7 | The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country . |
| 8 | Hahnemann was the first to start modifying what he himself had enunciated and towards the end of his life he developed a further series of dilutions which he called the LM potencies , in which the material was diluted 1 in 50,000 at each step , rather than the more usual 1 in 10 or 1 in 100 dilution steps . |
| 9 | The motor age had arrived and by the end of the 1950s one and a quarter million new vehicles were being registered every year . |
| 10 | The marquis 's voice had softened and for the first time Topaz gave him a wide smile . |
| 11 | Dismayed at the pain he had inflicted and at the pain he himself felt in consequence , Richard rushed forward , then stopped a few feet from Victoria twisting from side to side in frustration , wondering how he could stop her crying . |
| 12 | For some time before this heavy clouds had increased and in the west the sky had become a dense purplish-black , a range of mountainous cumulus against which the outlines of buildings took on a curious clarity and the trees stood out livid and sickly bright . |
| 13 | Three days later , Timothy rode to Yelton to tell Topaz what had happened and of the story which the marchioness had concocted . |
| 14 | Complete silence , for the rain had ceased and for the moment the storm seemed to have moved away . |
| 15 | The rain had ceased and behind the wherry 's mast was a splendid yellow and grey sky . |
| 16 | After that they ignored the war and its grisly aftermath and talked about nothing very important : new books , the latest films that had been shown in London since Julia had left and about the BBC 's new Third Programme . |
| 17 | He could tell , from the way she had hesitated and from the smile she had given . |
| 18 | The regular freighter from Denmark had docked and along the quayside barges were moored , filled with coconuts and spices which had been transshipped from the large Oriental freighters at the Royal group of docks downriver . |
| 19 | Almost before she had finished speaking , the eyelids had drooped and with a faint snore and a little wriggle , Ann Butler was once more asleep . |
| 20 | Sixty two only , you know , not that long after the War had ended and to the lament that nobody got killed you know you might have had more chances e of success if they had all got killed . |
| 21 | If she was nervous it remained hidden and in a few minutes she had put each of the sisters completely at ease , their shame and apprehension gone . |