Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I proposed to keep working until the hotel was a hotbed of gossip , and leave only when I 'd made myself the centre of a tasty little scandal ? |
| 2 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 3 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 4 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 5 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 6 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 7 | It would be most upsetting if Captain Auden were to hear I had shown you the implant I designed for him . ’ |
| 8 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 9 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 10 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 11 | I had convinced myself the diet was necessary even though I found it tough going and particularly rough after a major operation and great weight loss . |
| 12 | All I needed was a little bit of luck and as I pressed , dry mouthed , along the empty street it seemed I had found it The shock when I saw the two burly SPs strolling towards me was like a blow but was immediately followed by a strange calm . |
| 13 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 14 | It would n't have surprised me if you 'd given me the boot there and then . |
| 15 | Was it the sort of chemist that erm was it the sort of chemist that you 'd go in if you 'd got something the matter with you and rather than go to the doctor , they would sort of dole out something for you ? |
| 16 | ‘ If you 'd told me the truth about that years ago , none of this wretched business would have happened . ’ |
| 17 | There had been no time for a cup of coffee and she 'd eaten nothing the night before , going straight to her cabin . |
| 18 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 19 | How would he be if on one of those Saturday mornings when he 'd hung around the rectory she 'd recognized herself the bitterness beneath his grin ? |
| 20 | Somewhere and somehow she 'd given them the slip , shinned down the mat of Virginia creeper in the darkness and scuttled across the lawn to hide . |
| 21 | She had been right when she 'd called him the devil , because he was — but oh , how she wished she did n't find him so incredibly attractive . |
| 22 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 23 | Well , anyway , thought Julia , she could n't be worse at waiting than she was at typing , so she 'd asked what the rate of pay was . |
| 24 | ‘ Little things , ’ he 'd said when , just before he fell asleep , she 'd asked him the question once more . |
| 25 | Then she 'd shown him the book : a very rare volume indeed . |
| 26 | The day she 'd shown him the photograph … |
| 27 | She 'd told him the nurse was coming to see her lawyers and make a statement at the end of that week . |
| 28 | Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all . |
| 29 | If she had planned it the blow could not have been more accurate . |
| 30 | She left Philip to his labours , thinking that this time she had given him the money for the materials but none for his labour . |