Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 2 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 3 | I 'd left you the full address , and the telephone number and a fully detailed map . |
| 4 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 5 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 6 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 7 | On the album I make the comment that somebody had asked me the same question and I said , ‘ Yep , my left hand 's doing good , right hand 's doing alright , my mind 's as sharp as a tack . |
| 8 | That wonderful love they had shared and which had given her the precious gift of a son . |
| 9 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 10 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 11 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 12 | As we 're roping up , who should arrive to tie on but the lad who 'd joined me the previous day . |
| 13 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
| 14 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 15 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 16 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 17 | When he returned , bearing a brand new dress in a rich burgundy shade , she had shown him the blue one . |
| 18 | Neither Fedorov nor the man who had evaded them the other night had put in an appearance , and the chance of their doing so now seemed remote . |
| 19 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 20 | It would be typical of Jacqui 's naivety to believe that she was dealing with an honest man who had given her the only copies in existence . |
| 21 | Yesterday Mr Hall said he was dissatisfied with the service he had received from Reg Vardy 's at Houghton-Le-Spring who had sold him the luxury car . |
| 22 | She thought of the helpful policeman who had told her the wrong day for the train . |
| 23 | The mulatto who had greeted them the previous morning was not in evidence as Benny passed through the lobby , for which she was grateful . |
| 24 | DeVore who had shown him the top-security files detailing the deals Klaus Ebert had struck with various Companies to destroy Curval 's own enterprise . |
| 25 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 26 | They had patronised it the previous night , taking to heart its motto ( in Latin ) , ‘ drink yourself to hell ’ . |
| 27 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 28 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 29 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 30 | Somehow she had imagined them both greeting Peter together , wrapped in each other 's arms , confirming what Peter had already imagined when he 'd rung her the other morning . |