Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was precisely her own conclusion , but Jamie was the first man she 'd met who agreed with her . |
| 2 | Fine lime trees formed a natural avenue for the approach ; copper beeches and great elms gave shelter from the wind in the east ; should the river flood , as he 'd observed it did after heavy rain , the house was safe upon its hill . |
| 3 | I did n't offer them more coffee , and when they 'd gone I mooched around the flat hoping to wind down . |
| 4 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
| 5 | Until now , the woman had been careful not to reveal how she had witnessed what passed between him and that lovely creature at the docks . |
| 6 | And in 1987 a lady wrote to the Cambridge Evening News that she had heard what sounded like a cuckoo on February 12 . |
| 7 | He faces the issue and chooses to explain the vision he had received which led to his actions in making himself known to these despised Gentiles . |
| 8 | This morning she had sensed he wanted to be friendly . |
| 9 | The old bear Emma had given her sat in his corner , accorded dignity , but no longer attention . |
| 10 | Even the two youths who had attacked him had by now disappeared from view . |
| 11 | As soon as he had come she pushed at him to move , all efficiency . |
| 12 | And she had accepted what had to be accepted , and she and Fergus had parted . |
| 13 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 14 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 15 | Hawk had seen it told as a series of pictures on buffalo hides . |
| 16 | Sien had ‘ that Dolorosa expression ’ which had affected him so deeply when he had seen it depicted in the picture Woman in Mourning . |
| 17 | It had done everything asked of it by CSM , waited three years and got its product licensed . |
| 18 | He put a hand to his brow and now out of all she had said there came into his mind her words : ‘ You could n't support a rabbit . ’ |
| 19 | MacIver had said he knew of a double-deck trailer which went every week from Cumbernauld to Stornoway , via Inverness , carrying £300,000-£600,000 worth of spirits , groceries and tobacco . |
| 20 | There had been a time when , like everyone else at the school , she had said she wanted to be a professional dancer , or an actress , or anything else that was exciting and totally different from working in a bank or being a dairy farmer 's wife . |
| 21 | I loathed sport well into my teens ; a distinct disadvantage , as I had decided I wanted to be an Officer in the Parachute Regiment or the Royal Marines , a vocation which demanded exceptional physical fitness and courage , qualities I did n't possess . |
| 22 | Everything else he had collected he abandoned in the street drain . |
| 23 | For a long time she had thought they referred to a mother and a female baby bear . |
| 24 | She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | McLeish made a conscientious note , feeling that he had got himself sidetracked off the more interesting question of Angela Morgan 's capital investment in Yeo Davis . |
| 26 | A wardrobe door was jammed open by the sleeve of a dress , as if Sal had kicked it shut on her way out . |
| 27 | I had more or less finished when the copper who had pulled me appeared from the back office and lifted the flap in the desk to get by me . |
| 28 | Thiercelin had spent what remained of the night in the chateau at Sokolnitz , a requisitioned country house which offered fair prospects of a successful defence , and reasonable comfort in the meantime . |
| 29 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |
| 30 | Darwin , from his observations of the bird 's feeding habits and its tameness alone had assumed it belonged to the Caracaras or Polyborus family . |