Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone has shared that view of course , two big questions have caused some to hesitate over Maastricht . |
| 2 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 3 | If I 'd wanted that kind of wife , I 'd have married Eleanor . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk . |
| 5 | I 'd found some bunches of violets that were n't much good , but I thought I might sell them in the pub , or that some kind gent might treat me to a sandwich . |
| 6 | I 've got quite into port though , I 'd finished that bottle of port by Tuesday night |
| 7 | Now I , I 'd got all sorts of alternatives to buy . |
| 8 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 9 | But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it . |
| 10 | John Lee Hooker : ‘ Woke up this mornin' , found I 'd had 43 years of chart activity … ’ |
| 11 | Frankly , if I 'd had any forewarning of this then I 'd have made certain that our paths would never cross again ! ’ |
| 12 | When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so . |
| 13 | I 'd had twenty-five years of booze and using other recreational substances . |
| 14 | This rumour may have been based on someone having witnessed some signs of a growing affection between Richard and Margaret , but we can not be sure . |
| 15 | I had imagined long pitches of vertical ice and continuous difficulty , so I was n't entirely sure how we were going to climb it . |
| 16 | I had studied certain aspects of the law to some purpose . |
| 17 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 18 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 19 | I had seen many pictures of attacks on the city but somehow seeing that bridge destroyed , it suddenly hit me what is happening to Baghdad . |
| 20 | For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting . |
| 21 | As soon as I had seen this reading of the phrase it at once seemed more plausible . |
| 22 | I had seen these images of John before , but then came a video report from Danish TV back in 1981 . |
| 23 | There was one field in particular that I had made some good finds on and I had searched this piece of land time and time again . |
| 24 | I had heard awful tales of Spanish prisons . |
| 25 | I had heard good reports of the Tesoro Silver Sabre Plus ( especially when fitted with a large coil ) . |
| 26 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
| 27 | I had read that cancer of the lung was normally so virulent that if unchecked it spread with great rapidity . |
| 28 | I had read all manner of learned papers and cover stories in American news magazines talking of the ‘ Dawn of the Pacific Age ’ and suchlike : so why not go where that dawn actually happens ? |
| 29 | ‘ I had tried all kinds of diets , but I did n't have a weight problem — I had a food problem . |
| 30 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |