Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 2 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 3 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 4 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 5 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 6 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 7 | Ukraine 's national poet voiced the robust verdict of an unforgiving nation : ‘ If only mother Ukraine had strangled him in the cradle . ’ |
| 8 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 9 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 10 | She felt as if a hard , heavy fist had thumped her in the stomach . |
| 11 | Breeze was on her way to Miss Martindale 's now , for the old lady had intercepted her in the lane the day before , to ask her if she would come and do two hours ' digging at tenpence an hour . |
| 12 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 13 | Fate had put her in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man . |
| 14 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 15 | When Pc Black had found him in the toilets he said he had temporarily removed his glasses to wipe them , and that a friend who was there had brought them to him at the police station . |
| 16 | The ball had hit me in the leg . |
| 17 | As she passed , she said , a policeman had struck her in the face with a baton , ‘ and I had n't opened my mouth to him ’ . |
| 18 | She gasped , just as if the water had hit her in the chest . |
| 19 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 20 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 21 | In despair at the greasiness of her hair , Daisy had washed it in the river — how the hell had women coped in biblical times ? — and it had dried all crinkly . |
| 22 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |
| 23 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 24 | Maidstone 's peculiar behaviour earlier that day , Franco 's strange tale about the pile of money Maidstone had showed him in the bar and now Maidstone 's death itself . |
| 25 | It 'll Be All Right on the Night host Dennis Norden searched for his cordless telephone , only to discover that his pet dog had buried it in the garden of his London home . |
| 26 | Several people had noticed them in the bar , but no one saw when they left . |
| 27 | People had seen him in the park . |
| 28 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 29 | Last night , Miles had kissed her in the pantry . |
| 30 | ‘ I was in Boston when the word came through that Derrygonnelly had beaten us in the championship . |