Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [art] [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 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 3 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 4 | I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’ |
| 5 | Would you believe that he said I 've got to work on the aeroplane this week , I 've got the week off , I 've got to work on the aeroplane , I , you know , I shall be alright , down the airfield , er on the Wednesday he arrived to see how we were getting on , complaining like made because he had n't been able to find where the cottage was , I said but I 'd left you a detailed map , |
| 6 | I 'd left you the full address , and the telephone number and a fully detailed map . |
| 7 | ‘ She agreed eight o'clock when I spoke to her yesterday , after I 'd offered her every other hour of the day . |
| 8 | I 'd forgotten what a thin face Dad had got — how old he was . |
| 9 | I 'd forgotten what a delicious meal tea could be ; and sitting there I felt invaded by the envy of the man who lives in an institution , and has to put up with institution meals and institution everything else , for the rich private life of the established . |
| 10 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 11 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 12 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 13 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 14 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 15 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 16 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 17 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 18 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 19 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 20 | And yet , until Irina described me as bad-tempered , I had considered myself a peaceable man , a listener and an observer , occasionally a counsellor , even a mediator . |
| 21 | Even as a wee boy I had considered it an unfair exchange . |
| 22 | I had proved myself the fittest by the mere act of survival . |
| 23 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 24 | ‘ I had forgotten what a silly little girl you still are . ’ |
| 25 | Time to fast from it That session with She-She had done me no good at all . |
| 26 | ‘ You might n't have thought so if you 'd seen them the next day , ’ said Toby . |
| 27 | Though I wish you 'd given him a different name . |
| 28 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 29 | She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all . |
| 30 | Then , if she 'd given him a good time and he was a collaborator , he might not report her . |