Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I , well I got given orders . |
| 2 | Indeed , some of his contemporaries were highly critical of his preoccupation with the technical side of verse ; even friends like Herbert Read placed emphasis on the Wordsworthian ‘ spontaneous overflowing of powerful feelings ’ . |
| 3 | Time wasted equalled theft . |
| 4 | An' a crackling of flames , 'cos the pontoon 'ad caught fire and some o' the wreckage was ablaze as well . |
| 5 | IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service . |
| 6 | You seen grown men kicking and pulling jerseys and |
| 7 | With Lucinda Green 's enthusiasm , the 12 of us involved raised £80,000 this year , and ended up taking over 40 tonnes of supplies , with a tremendous amount of support from the ‘ horsy fraternity ’ . |
| 8 | Thomas Tate , of Battersea Training School ( for teachers ) , whose students had to help look after the pigs ; Charles Godfrey , who helped found mathematics education as a discipline in its own right . |
| 9 | The Severn bore caused havoc again today . |
| 10 | The heavily-built millionaire businessman , commonly known by his childhood nickname ‘ Maquio ’ , helped put conservative thought back into Mexican politics after he entered the fray outraged at the nationalisation of the banks in 1982 . |
| 11 | They wanted to get on but that made me swear if I ever got made Sergeant , I would never treat a man the way I was treated . |
| 12 | If you passed for Sergeant , you got two ten-shilling special allowances , and when I got made Sergeant , I was on a bike allowance of seven shillings a week . |
| 13 | He got kidnapped Herbie got kidnapped |
| 14 | Though much of what I translated defied comprehension , it was provocatively enigmatic . |
| 15 | Not only was it light , warm and washable , it also made grown men , previously never out of a brown jumper and khaki woollen breeches , dress for the hills in something pink and fluffy . |
| 16 | Dot did n't know what a banana tasted like , though she 'd heard Mrs Parvis talk about them often enough . |
| 17 | One man said he 'd heard Berners wanted to put a huge siren on the top . |
| 18 | I 'd heard North Shore aficionados reminiscing about the ten-point tube Pottz had caught here back in '82 . |
| 19 | In the end Maggie dragooned four Australian chaps , and a Cockney girl who 'd volunteered as soon as she 'd heard help was needed . |
| 20 | I 'd heard Dad and Eva in the bar analysing the performance as if it were Miles Davis 's farewell appearance . |
| 21 | She 'd heard stories about people being attacked and their handbags stolen and so decided not to walk across town alone . |
| 22 | He 'd heard stories about him in Calcutta and half expected something of the sort . |
| 23 | I 'd heard stories of women being in labour for twelve or fifteen hours with their first child so I was quite pleased . |
| 24 | He 'd heard sounds he did n't like and had n't heard before . |
| 25 | Theodora wondered if she 'd heard Gilbert aright . |
| 26 | A few seconds later Susan came bursting in as she had been upstairs when she 'd heard Maggie 's voice . |
| 27 | He 'd heard loads of acceleration and loads of noise . |
| 28 | It was the first time in her life she 'd heard Frank say something bold to his father . |
| 29 | They 'd staggered past a dozen rabbit-holes , calling down into the gloom , before they 'd heard Nooty 's voice answering them . |
| 30 | a gift for the babe he 'd heard cry . |