Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The females had dropped their young and reared them to the point where they could survive to be next year 's prey . |
| 2 | He plunged towards the door , and before Cassie could stop him , had wrenched it open and stormed out into the hall , crashing the door shut behind him . |
| 3 | This climate has made me conservative and changed my plans for growing the business . ’ |
| 4 | In their personal lives there had been parallels that had drawn them close and formed a bond between them ; not least the loss of both their wives some ten years back . |
| 5 | do n't matter , it just feels clean , I 've had it short and shaped , have a good shape on it and do you know the next time you have it cut I do n't know you want looking at , now the next time you go , go to the Darrow in Milford yeah because you 're in problems and they know you need it because he 'll give you a good shape on it and then you have it shaped once a month or once every three weeks or once a fortnight and keep it looking nice that way and it 's four pounds , four ninety nine , four ninety , four seventy five yeah but just keep it nice and shaped and it wo n't look any different , there ai n't nothing wrong with it mm mm mm no no right , right , right tra la |
| 6 | Indeed , Hamilton suggested crisply that they had got it wrong and left it at that . |
| 7 | Have you still got your artificial or did you have new real ? |
| 8 | Each time he 'd get to the line about going to stoke the brazier it would come out as ‘ stoke the brassiere ’ , which of course stopped everything dead and brought the Director screaming down on us . |
| 9 | Called me frigid and said all the other chaps ' girls were willing enough , and would it matter all that much if he put a bun in the oven for me ? |
| 10 | The distinction between those cases and this is that the lawyer for the other can immediately attack the one — there is somebody there to protect the reputation of each defendant who is in the court — but in a case such as that which has affected my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West , there is no such opportunity to defend oneself . |
| 11 | Only cynics would have called him stick-in-the-mud or sneered at him being ‘ worthy ’ . |
| 12 | To Lizzie she looked once more like the young girl who had found herself pregnant and did n't want to marry . |
| 13 | The snare had left him weak and overwrought . |
| 14 | He had woken from his brief sleep , emerging out of nightmares that had left him drained and sickened . |