Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | have a kip at lunch time , did some work , came home and got smashed Went down about all |
| 2 | It was only when I got on the ground and tried to walk did I realise that I had a bullet through the top of my right ankle . |
| 3 | However , it is clear that the high levels of stress they reported experiencing did not have disastrous effects on their ability to recall the event . |
| 4 | Tried to push went bit of a shock I think . |
| 5 | But the course he now proposed to take amounted , in effect , to a failure to decide , a refusal to make any of the conventional choices available to him , a creative act of cowardice . . |
| 6 | Perdita grew increasingly boot-faced when every pony she tried to cuddle cringed away with terror . |
| 7 | We hoped that the US medical team whom we supposed would attend him at Wiesbaden , as we 'd heard had happened with other American hostages , would recognize that he needed a long rest . |
| 8 | Damn him if she would explain that the young man to whom he 'd referred had merely been a fellow Briton attending a conference on international computing , that they 'd exchanged nothing more than a few polite comments natural to fellow compatriots abroad , and that his arm had been lying across the back of the bench seats and not round her shoulders . |
| 9 | The two sons she 'd reared had left home , and even being married to one of the richest men in Europe could n't compensate . |
| 10 | He never came to terms with losing her , or the fact that people he 'd trusted cheated him . ’ |
| 11 | Every penny he 'd saved had gone to getting the key money for this house , over a thousand pounds , and then the four hundred a month rent . |
| 12 | The strawberry jam she 'd made had n't set , she could n't even take a telephone message . |
| 13 | A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite . |
| 14 | The animals he 'd seen had always been well looked after . |
| 15 | Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo La la la la la la ah doo doo doo doo doo doo doo da boung boung boung boung |
| 16 | Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo La la la la la la ah doo doo doo doo doo doo doo da boung boung boung boung |
| 17 | The little he 'd said indicated that his stepfather had been deeply emotionally involved with Isabelle . |
| 18 | I thought that at least part of what I 'd said had satisfied him . |
| 19 | She wished she could convince herself that what he 'd said had merely been an idle threat . |
| 20 | Evidently something she 'd said had taken him by surprise . |
| 21 | And I 'm not sorry that I did that because erm I would n't like I would n't have like to think that er anything I 'd done had escalated the situation you know . |
| 22 | If only what we 'd done had given proof |
| 23 | SFV , the holiday company he 'd used had gone out of business , leaving Mr Cratchley and his friends four thousand pounds out of pocket . |
| 24 | The tears she 'd mastered got the better of her . |
| 25 | Not that it mattered because the woman whose dress she 'd soaked turned around and started shouting the place down . |
| 26 | I might have been the butterfly I 'd watched enmeshed on the hanging geranium in Auntie 's backyard . |
| 27 | The invective she 'd rehearsed hovered on her lips , her breath momentarily taken away by the utter gall of the man . |
| 28 | There are storage areas with more wire than you 'd dreamed existed ; areas full of strain gauges and various items of test equipment . |
| 29 | Before his eyes , the person he 'd known did a slow dissolve into the person she 'd become : the face sharper and sterner , the hair short and severe , the body lean as a toothpick on salads and work-outs . |
| 30 | But tonight before , well on Saturday before we came up like he 'd been back and to this after , well this morning really and I , he 'd disappeared had n't he ? |