Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd known him barely two days , and already he 'd steered her through more emotions than she 'd known herself capable of — And , much to her very great surprise , over the next few days he insisted on showing her the countryside . |
| 2 | " Can I play ? " she said at last , after we 'd ignored her about ten minutes . |
| 3 | To simplify his thoughts he had listed them under two headings : first there was that which directly affected Belpan . |
| 4 | It was also important to think what she should wear , for if any of the Governors who had interviewed her only three months ago saw her at the service they would know why she was there . |
| 5 | Once , when very drunk , Simon had phoned me late one night to try out a new concept , the ‘ Uzi-O-Gram ’ , which had the catchline ‘ Shoot up your girlfriend 's wedding , just for fun ! |
| 6 | Hrun had stolen it only three days before from the impregnable palace of the Archmandrite of B ‘ Ituni , and he was already regretting it . |
| 7 | She had a tension about her like a strung bow , and every bit as lethal , and she had a piercing beauty — why had he never marked it , he who had known her nearly three years ? that made his heart contract as he looked at her . |
| 8 | She walked out of the door , grateful that her marriage had brought her perhaps one thing of value , and that was freedom at last from her belief that she 'd never been loved . |
| 9 | This had been her mother 's house , after all , and Isabelle had left it over twenty-two years ago , and not been back since . |
| 10 | I had left it only twenty minutes earlier . |
| 11 | It had taken her over four years , but here she was at last . |
| 12 | It had taken her nearly ten years to do so , ‘ as everyone said that we have enough societies in Bedford already ’ . |
| 13 | Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg . |
| 14 | It had taken them only ten minutes to reach this far . |
| 15 | The Crown Prince had achieved what he set out to do in March ; though his small auxiliary clearing action had taken him nearly three months and cost at least as many lives as the whole of the rest of the fighting to date . |
| 16 | Environmentalists were no longer ‘ the enemy within ’ , as Mrs Thatcher had described them only three years earlier . |