Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] and [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing in Australian society nor in the easy commerce between don and undergraduate which she had witnessed and occasionally shared with Michael at Cambridge , had prepared her for this . |
| 2 | Unable to practise , he turned to teaching at Cheltenham School of Architecture close to the home he had designed and substantially built at Malvern , despite his affliction , and became deputy principal . |
| 3 | The plaintiff , being unaware of this exemption , paid dues upon limestone which he had landed and ultimately burnt into lime . |
| 4 | The waiter 's eyes had rounded and then slid to the now poker-faced Lucenzo , who became preoccupied with peeling the paper from a Carnival doughnut . |
| 5 | She would sit in the surgery in the evenings after the patients had gone and carefully shade in the colours . |
| 6 | The flight engineer , who had been at Halton as all apprentice with me and had left and later returned to the Air Force , complained bitterly as I was making all the preparations for take-off , but I ignored him . |
| 7 | They had a half-acre of garden , which Helen had planned and sedulously cultivated with shrubs and trees , and a plot for vegetables and fruit . |
| 8 | Wills , who holds a victory over former world champion Greg Page and was no doubt encouraged by the fact that Derek Williams , whom he had floored and convincingly outpointed in New York this summer , became the new European champion after 55 seconds ' work against Hughroy Currie on Tuesday night , went about his work with pride , determination , and remarkable endurance . |
| 9 | A most respectable party had taken the dining room but the landlord was either too flustered or too gauche to respect the privacy which , judging from their first expressions on seeing Hope , they felt they had ordered and even paid for . |