Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 40 some may say , but I 've enjoyed it and learned a lot . |
| 2 | She had had more responsibility that she 'd expected , but she had enjoyed it and welcomed the stability it had brought to her erratic life . |
| 3 | Well now , a lot of people will have missed them and heard a lot about them today , is there any chance at all that they 'll appear again tonight ? |
| 4 | But a boy at Bodedern Secondary School had seen them and told a teacher , and Paul Jones said he showed the marks to three teachers at Gwalchmai school in 1985 and they telephoned the social services . |
| 5 | Maybe the scarred man had suspected something and wanted a cut of the ransom . |
| 6 | Instead , she clutched tightly to the handle of the suitcase Mrs Hollidaye had lent her and followed the nurse along broad passages to a bright room where a group of children , all with suitcases and well wrapped in outdoor clothing , stood huddled like refugees from a foreign land waiting to be told where to go next . |
| 7 | ‘ A weekly column , ’ he had suggested , and when some weeks later , looking pale and rather ill , she had visited him and suggested a series of articles about the stunted lives of women and children in the East End , to be written from the inside , she had said , not the outside , he had rapidly agreed . |
| 8 | Failing in this they had then strangled her and thrown the body downstairs to give the appearance of suicide . |
| 9 | They 'd fed him and had the decency to give him fresh clothes , the shirt , blue jeans and a broad leather belt with embossed brass buckle to hold them up — camping-shop gear but adequate against the chill of November . |
| 10 | English Heritage pays tribute to the work of Wandsworth borough council in ensuring that , if the owner of the building has not done the work , the council has done it and billed the owner . |
| 11 | He is a lying bastard and he has just used me and wiped the floor with me . |
| 12 | From Pepita 's symptoms he had rapidly been able to diagnose what kind of spider had bitten her and administer the antidote to its poison . |
| 13 | I have been helped by mentors , women and men , at various stages in my career and I have a very strong network of people who have given me advice and support when I 've needed it and shared the ups and downs . |
| 14 | By the 1920s Frank Hender had bought it and installed a small brass finishing workshop on the upper floor , the lower section being let to a Mr Thompson for shoe stiffening manufacture . |
| 15 | Cos every time they use it , she reminds them that it 's her telly and that she er could have sold it and got the money . |
| 16 | ‘ But you could have sold it and used the money to buy a property back home . |
| 17 | They had a new machine in , but after a pound or so I had mastered it and won an extra spaceship . |
| 18 | The khthons had untied them and left a torch before locking the dungeon door . |
| 19 | Deeply hurt , Vincent jumped to the conclusion that news of his friendship with Sien had reached him and upset the man . |
| 20 | At the conclusion of The Return of the King , the third of the three books — Tolkien always denied they were a trilogy — Frodo and his friends ride back to their lost land , to discover that ‘ they cared about it more than any other place in the world ’ , though its cottages and gardens have been laid waste and replaced by ugly new houses and factories belching smoke ; and they defeat the ruffians who had defiled it and resume the kingdom of little men . |
| 21 | Thirdly , that each child will have assessed themselves and done the first draft of the personal action plan . |
| 22 | On the plane , which had armrests a foot wide , made in a plastic that looked like jellied gold lamé , he pretended suddenly to have remembered something and drew a rumpled piece of paper out of his wallet . |
| 23 | Even so , Beth had shamed herself and brought the family name into disrepute . |
| 24 | He had abandoned it and taken the flowers to speak for themselves at her bedside , but she did not hear them . |
| 25 | Your parents wo n't keep in touch with your old fast car after you 've dumped it and got a newer model . |
| 26 | At the end of August he received another letter from Leopold telling him that the archbishop had forgiven him and wanted a reconciliation . |
| 27 | She wants to go back to her own people with her savings and what we have given her and cut a bit of a figure . |
| 28 | Knowing Christopher , she has judged it right to leave him to make his own attempts , though had he not succeeded she would probably have joined him and discussed the solution with him . |
| 29 | It 's a wonderful opportunity for volunteers in shops and branches and one-off groups to contact all the people who 've supported them and Save The Children over the years . |
| 30 | If I actually follow you down the street in order to be sure that you do n't throw it away or forget to post it , for instance , then I at one and the same time become certain that you 've posted it and display a lack of faith that you will do so . |