Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary , my eldest sister , had taken the day off work and had washed the curtains but for lack of time to dry them properly had hung them back up wet . |
| 2 | Yep I agree erm I 'd better try them on had n't I ? |
| 3 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 4 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 5 | All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function . |
| 6 | With them eventually came dashing British sports , like steeple chasing , cricket , golf and fox-hunting , the last of which had runs in the nearby countryside called ‘ Old England ’ , ‘ Leicestershire ’ and , best of all , as a concession to the French , ‘ Have Leicestershire ’ . |
| 7 | Getting them to take me on had taken some persuasion : developing countries do not generally put in requests for people in my profession — clinical psychology . |
| 8 | Nothing apparently happened for two months after the Institute 's delegation . |
| 9 | The manservant who let them in looked too young and too tall for his black coat . |
| 10 | They had come much further into the forest than they intended , much further indeed than those who ordered them in had intended . |
| 11 | Stepping briefly outside , he called for a bottle of Clairin to be brought , and the woman who had shown them in brought it instantly . |
| 12 | And these people took them in cleaned them up put them in like a bloody sheet , and all sorts he said |
| 13 | The young man who had let them in introduced himself as Malengin Fole . |
| 14 | George Eliot had loved the bonnets and sprigged china — because she knew them , or because writing them down gave her power over them , made her gentle and generous to their meaning ? |
| 15 | The air between them suddenly seemed static , as she fought for the words to justify her decision . |
| 16 | ‘ So one of them suddenly got rich , hey ? |
| 17 | And Karen last weekend , after you were sitting for them suddenly took ill on the Saturday I think , and Sheila was n't in any great shape , so he went back home er , from the office an over his lunch hour to see if he could just go and lend a hand , ge generally help out over his lunch hour . |
| 18 | And Dalglish must have gone into shock again as the side who have so far swept all before them suddenly surrendered their 100 per cent home record . |
| 19 | That did n't take them long did it ? |
| 20 | He got me so riled I lost a race this afternoon I should have won . |
| 21 | At the Council of Arminium forty-five years later , there were four British bishops , one of whom apparently paid his own way — which would seem to indicate some degree of prosperity . |
| 22 | Nothing so riled a sixteenth-century conquistadore as the knowledge that some men indulged in sodomy , and Balboa felt no compunction in setting the dreadful war-dogs on the culprits and having them tom to pieces in full public view . |
| 23 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 24 | The Italian government , concerned that the better things should remain in Italy , were delighted to hear that many of them only made the journey by canal from the Cannareggio to the piano nobile of the Palazzo Malpiero . |
| 25 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 26 | The 1982 and 1984 BCS between them only uncovered two cases of attempted rape and 17 and 18 sexual assaults respectively ( Jones et al . |
| 27 | She says she was taken to the Plaza Hotel , to a party where Hoover sat in a fine black frock and insisted on being called ‘ Mary ’ ; after a while , he retired to the bedroom to be petted by two bought boys , one of whom prudently wore rubber gloves . |
| 28 | Finally I managed to get out of the harness and , luckily for me , the parachute that was dragging me along got tangled in a camel thorn bush . |
| 29 | The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne . |
| 30 | The friend who watched them together recalled : ‘ Camilla was not what one would call a truly beautiful woman . |