Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’
2 There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’
3 I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line .
4 Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day .
5 I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones .
6 I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques .
7 I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ .
8 I 'd seen the naked soul of my Mother .
9 Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning .
10 George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different .
11 ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ?
12 I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’
13 But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing .
14 I 'd believed the English boy would protect me from these sounds .
15 There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been .
16 Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’
17 But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery .
18 I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’
19 We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up .
20 I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager .
21 She sent , they were in those little strips , she sent three in for me , she said and have you tasted these I said I do n't think so , so she sent them , I 'd tasted the other ones but not those white ones so she sent three of them in for us .
22 When I met her , I thought I 'd met the ideal woman .
23 Within six months , I 'd repaid the forty-pound loan from my mom-in-law .
24 I 'd given the best years of my life to television .
25 It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know
26 But I 'd bought the wrong weedkiller , it was Tumbleweed and I found out later it 's only lethal to tropical fish , apparently I should have bought pathklear which is much stronger .
27 ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie .
28 But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting .
29 I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step .
30 Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing .
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