Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ I 've been in the shop when people have lifted something and run out , but I 've never experienced anything like this before . |
| 3 | I 've deleted everything and re-installed DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 from scratch , all to no avail . |
| 4 | He assumed that they had forgotten something and had returned . |
| 5 | I do n't want to stay anywhere too far away from my flat , in case I 've forgotten something and need to go back for it . ’ |
| 6 | If you had to give a phoney address , could n't you at least have picked something that did n't have a remote basis in reality ? |
| 7 | He had a bizarre family resemblance to Picasso ; saurian as well as simian , decades of living in the sun , the quintessential Mediterranean man , who had discarded everything that lay between him and his vitality . |
| 8 | Opponents have lost their fear of facing Neath and have encountered a team low on confidence among the younger members and low on motivation among the older ones who have won everything and done everything . |
| 9 | He had dropped everything and left . |
| 10 | It may sound too banal to talk about but I have n't owned anything that merited so much fussy concern from experts since I sold my 1964 Jaguar 340 . |
| 11 | That he 'd seen no-one and had n't been anywhere near the clunch pit or the derelict car . |
| 12 | She wondered which part of the house Fernando and Maria Luisa occupied , which were their own personal quarters , because so far she had seen nothing that indicated that a happy couple occupied the place . |
| 13 | It had done nothing but distract everybody . |
| 14 | I have done nothing but sleep too much , eat too much , and sit in the sun and bake ! ’ |
| 15 | For the previous six weeks we had done nothing but make preparations ; buying the tickets , finding tenants for the house , and , hardest of all , putting the house in a fit state to receive tenants ! |
| 16 | As you know , Richard has done nothing but advise me that I must . |
| 17 | Since about 1985 , Hall has done nothing but tell us how great the Tories are : how they 've tapped the mood of the nation , set the agenda , turned us all into thrusting entrepreneurs and free-marketeers . |
| 18 | Yesterday , when she and Celeste had watched the Portuguese Grand Prix together , the model had done nothing but drool . |
| 19 | And you 've done nothing but snap and shout at me ever since we came on board . ’ |
| 20 | He said hundreds of thousands of jobs and lives had been destroyed while the Premier had done nothing but watch it happen . |
| 21 | He 's done nothing but scratch this morning though . |
| 22 | ‘ I have positively done nothing but dream of the System of no Property every step of the Way since I left you , ’ he wrote back to Oxford on 13 July . |
| 23 | In the Commons debate which followed the ministerial announcement , there were some MPs who welcomed the demise of ‘ a nonsensical curriculum development body that has done nothing but damage education over the years ’ . |
| 24 | I 've done nothing but change my plans because of what happened then , and do n't you ever forget it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ She has done nothing but snarl since she arrived last Wednesday . ’ |
| 26 | She 'd done nothing but lie back , and allow Kattina to make love to her . |
| 27 | And I 've done nothing but lose you six good men . ’ |
| 28 | So she said quite right , she said he 's done nothing but bully you lot ever since you 've been children ! |
| 29 | Well she said he he 's done nothing but bully them . |
| 30 | You 've done nothing but hit on me since the day — ’ |