Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a stupid omission , but then she 'd left so unexpectedly and in such a rush ; besides , she 'd expected Suzie to be at the address she 'd been given . |
| 2 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 3 | Mr Roache , of Wilmslow , Cheshire , had told the court he was ‘ devastated and humiliated ’ by a November 1990 article which said he was smug and self-satisfied like his screen character and had been universally nicknamed ‘ BKB — Boring Ken Barlow , ’ a reputation he had earned both on and off the screen . |
| 4 | The General Council of British Shipping quotes a survey as reporting that those ships which had been found to use the Minches route had done so only because of poor weather conditions . |
| 5 | The cloth was linen , for Mrs Maugham held that plastic table cloths were the last resort of the working classes , and had said so often and at length ; but it was adorned with place mats of plastic . |
| 6 | On 29 August 1745 the younger Stuart , still only 20 , had slipped secretly away and on 24 October 1745 , while he was on the road , a Treaty of Alliance was drawn up at Fontainebleau , under which the French king promised ‘ James III ’ , as he was styled , to help him against their ‘ common enemy ’ , described , for diplomatic reasons , not as king of England but as Elector of Hanover . |
| 7 | The weather had recovered so far as to be rainless , breezy , faintly warm . |